Diving vacation + flight home = decompression sickness
At the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center, we operate a hyperbaric chamber…
Greg Henry on End-of-Life Care
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Vampires & Werewolves in the ED?
The patient is a 46-year-old male who presents to the ED at night with agitation…
Measuring the Risk in Your Portfolio
It’s one thing to understand the major types of risk, and to know which to…
When Tests Cry Wolf
Many studies try to evaluate the use of tests to find disease of one sort…
Night Caller
When the phone rang at 4:30 in the morning, instead of sleepily reaching for the…
The Super Bowl Doc
For more than two decades Ricardo Martinez has coordinated medical care at America’s most popular…
The Over-Extended Director
Dear Director, I’ve been recruited to be the medical director/chairman for a 40,000 visit ED.…
Are Press Ganey Statistics Reliable?
Part II: Small Samples Create Questionable Results How many patient satisfaction surveys are necessary to…
More Than a Migraine
You smile as you dispatch the resident to check out a 17-year-old girl with a…