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…
Ketamine Use in Children
As the search for the ideal sedative agent continues, ketamine continues to be a safe…
Seen Yesterday for Chest Pain
It’s been a busy afternoon. You are working on admissions with one patient chart in each…
Are You Sending Patients Home? You Should Be.
Emergency physicians have historically been ambivalent about inappropriate ED utilization. We deplore it but are…