Value of Emergency Medicine
In addition to a press release issued at last month’s Leadership and Advocacy Conference to highlight the…
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New Study: EPs Key to Reducing Health Care Costs
A recent study by the RAND Corporation found emergency physicians are key decision-makers for nearly half of…
An Acute Inability to Cope
Medical students often pose the question to me, “Don’t you get tired of the dental pain and…
An open letter to central line packaging engineers
Dear Sirs, First, thank you for putting all the tools I need into one sterile package, minimizing…
We have met the enemy (Part II)
[Editor’s Note: Last month’s column discussed dealing with an unethical expert before a trial.] What can you…
Group Political Interest Gives NEMPAC a Boost
To some emergency physicians, congressional hearings and political campaigns seem a world away from their everyday actions…
Critical Decisions: Spider and Insect Envenomation
From the EM Model 6.0 Environmental Disorders 6.1 Bites and Envenomations Among the nearly 40,000 spider species…
St. Louis Area Physician Named ED Director of the Year
Dr. Savoy Brummer accepted the award for Emergency Department Director of the Year on April 29 and…
Ultrasound-guided peritonsillar abscess drainage
June 1, 2013
- Jacob Miss, M.D., Andrew A. Herring, M.D., Daniel Mantuani, M.D., Mph, and Arun Nagdev, M.D.
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Peritonsillar abscess (PTA) or quinsy is a potentially severe suppurative complication of upper respiratory infection that is…
Culture of silence
I believe it all started in the weeks following the 9/11 attacks. The transformation was subtle at…