The Nuts & Bolts of Finger Amputation
A 21-year-old, right-hand dominant male without significant past medical history, presents to your emergency department…
The Best of Global Emergency Medicine Research
In recent years, the growth of emergency medicine around the globe has been exponential, with…
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…