Are Helicopter Parents to Blame for Excessive ED Visits?
It is after midnight and the preschooler running around your ED is showing considerably more…
What’s More Important: Savings Rate or Investment Returns?
In emergency medicine we want results STAT – vital signs, oxygen, labs, urinalysis, admit or…
Q&A with Lynn Masssingale, MD, the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of TeamHealth
Part of a series: Click here to read “TeamHealth Agrees to $60 Million Settlement” When an…
TeamHealth Agrees to $60 Million Settlement
Part of a series: Click here to read the “Q&A with Lynn Masssingale, MD, the…
Sergey Motov on the Proper Use of Ketorolac and the Fifth Vital Sign
In a follow-up to his recent Annals paper, Dr. Sergey Motov discusses optimal dosing of…
How War Shaped a Specialty
The Vietnam War left behind a positive legacy of improved trauma care. Most of the…
Do Patients Fare Better Under Female Physicians?
Dr. Esther Choo deconstructs the recent JAMA debate. JAMA Internal Medicine published a remarkable study in…
The Non-Opioid Pain Patch
Pain complaints are among the most common reasons patients visit emergency departments. As the epidemic…
When Pancreatic Cancer Hits Home in the ED
I was at work when my cell phone rang. I glanced at the caller ID and…
Cuba Libre
Observations of life and medicine in modern Havana. Visiting Cuba and trying to learn about…