Picking a Financial Advisor, Part I
Meet Dr. Smith. Dr. Smith is a 45-year-old emergency physician, married, with two children. He’s…
Captain Confidence
I came up the companionway of our boat, ready to take over the night watch…
Finishing Strong
“Laborare est orare”-Horace/St. Benedict. This famous quote from Horace can loosely be translated as, “To…
Dr. Heck goes to Washington
One thing is clear in the current political landscape: Americans are fed up with the…
How Useful Are Patient Sat Scores?
Dr. Colfer and Dr. Sullivan offer the point and counter point on the subject of…
Snake Bite on Foot
A 62-year-old woman entered the emergency department (ED) with a chief complaint of a snake…
Implanting Uncertainty Into the Emergency Dept
Infertility is a growing medical problem affecting 1 in 6 couples with a median prevalence…
Children with Abdominal Trauma
Is there benefit to routine hospital admission in children with blunt abdominal trauma who have…
“Bad Pneumonia” in DNR Patient
“Room 4, old septic guy with pneumonia, a trach, DNR, admitted,” says your colleague as…
ABEM’s Assessment of Practice Performance (APP)
It seems that every time we comply with a regulation someone moves the finish line.…