Real Q.I. Improvements
Imagine you are the CEO of St. Elsewhere Hospital, which is a suburban hospital with…
Medals Sans Mettle
An emergency physician recently contacted me to tell me a story. It all started when…
Patient Experience: Beyond Patient Sat
Delivering a top quality patient experience is “a mountain without a top.” Is it time…
War and Peas
It is difficult to enforce in others what you yourself don’t possess. My husband and…
Death by Regulation: Enough is Enough
It gets a little tiring, and certainly frustrating, to be on the receiving end of…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
A patient is suffering from two life threatening events. Treatment for one condition may exacerbate…
Serotonin Syndrome and the Libby Zion Affair
For a generation of American physicians, the tragic and infamous case of Libby Zion evokes…
EMS-Delivered Airways, Part II
Many EMS providers use devices like the King Laryngeal Tube or Sheridan Combitube as primary…
A Review of ACEP’s 2011 Council Resolutions
Each year at the annual Scientific Assembly of the American College of Emergency Physicians over…
The Life Cycle of a Parasitic Specialist
WARNING: If you are a radiologist, married to a radiologist, related to a radiologist, or…