2009 Influenza Update
Think you’ve gotten by this season without getting the flu? Think again. The worst of…
Living Where You Work
I have this philosophical thing about not living near where I work. I live about…
Avoidable Medical Mistakes
Emergency Emily sent me a link from Woman’s Day Magazine titled “25 Most Avoidable Medical…
Picture Break
This post has nothing to do with medicine. Photography is one of my hobbies and,…
You Get What You Pay For
An article in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times titled “Pediatric care shrinks across California” shows that…
Death By "Unvaccination"
An article recently published in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune describes an outbreak of Hemophilus…
The Art of Intubation
Perusing other blogs and came to this entry on the Trauma Bay where an EM…
Identification Game
For those of you with good visual skills, see whether you can identify these objects.…
Does Refusing to Hire Smokers Amount to "Discrimination"?
The Los Angeles Times Health Blog posted an article about how increasing numbers of employers…
More on Defensive Medicine
It seems that my post on defensive medicine in the emergency department struck a raw…