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…
56-Year-Old Homeless Alcoholic
This 56 year-old homeless, alcoholic male presented to your emergency department complaining of generalized malaise,…
Should Your ED Invest in End-Tidal Carbon Dioxide Detectors for Procedural Sedation?
As you polish off the documentation on your last five patients, the nurse for the…
Clear Improvements
How many patients a day come to you in a C-collar? If your ED is…
“Last Scene of All”
The principle issue in this country today, with regard to medicine, is not any particular…
Taking Obamacare to Court
Even before President Obama’s ink was dry from signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care…
Ultrasound Video
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