Inhalant Abuse
It’s a nice spring day when you get the call from the charge nurse that…
Handling Administrative Pay
No question generates more angst or consumes more discussion for a democratic emergency medicine (EM)…
Managing the Elderly with Abdominal Pain
In the March issue, we asked EPM readers to weigh in on the scenario below,…
Need CME Now? Phone It In
You are a couple of weeks away from renewing your state medical license and you…
What is a Physician Worth?
Inductive reasoning begins with observation and moves with variable speed to generalized theory. Deductive reasoning…
Macro Medicine
When the Office of Inspector General (OIG) released its 2011 Workplan – a formal announcement…
Medical Apps? There’s a Doc for That
When emergency physician Harvey Castro asked a nurse to start a dopamine dose for a…
HHS Opens New ACO Regs Up for Public Debate
Could HHS’s new payment structure really save Medicare as much as $960 million over the…
Manage Acute Variceal Bleeding Aggressively
The management of patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeds (UGIB) presenting in extremis is enough to…
EPM's Survey on Workforce, Salary and Gender
Take EPM’s 2011 Survey on Salary, Workforce and Gender and win a $100 gift certificate…