How Inappropriate Drug Shortages Are Compromising Emergency Medical Care
Although we used to have any drug we needed at our fingertips (regulatory interference notwithstanding)…
What Critical Data Could Your EHR Be Hiding?
Privacy advocates are pushing electronic record vendors to create a new class of “sequestered” health…
Regulating Inactivity
After sitting for hours reading the transcript of the Supreme Court oral arguments on the…
TMP-SMZ: Be Careful
You rarely hear of problems with the old standby, TMP-SMZ, but there is a growing…
Washington ACEP’s Historic Fight Over Medicaid Cuts
Expansion of the Medicaid rolls under the Affordable Care Act has caused more than one…
Under Pressure
An assault to the face leaves your patient in need of an emergency lateral canthotomy…
Renewing Research
Spring in the great lakes region gives us renewal; the snows melt and the green…
Dr. Randy Jotte: Washington University EM Prof. Seeks Seat in Missouri House
Randy Jotte is ready for a challenge. An emergency physician at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and an…
The Double Bounce
When Broadway composer Jonathan Larson collapsed the night before the opening of his magnum opus,…
Bouncebacks Book Offers Readers a Retrospectoscope
What would you do? A new book dissects “bouncebacks” in the emergency department, turning nightmare…