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ACEP’s Leadership & Advocacy Conference Reminds Us We Aren’t Alone
ACEP’s Annual Leadership & Advocacy Conference (LAC) was held April 30–May 2 in Washington, D.C. With Congressional…
Toxicology Question: What Biblical Plant Can Cause Severe Eye Irritation?
Hint: It produces a tasty fruit. Click here to read the answer.
June 2023 News From the College
Bonus Content: ACEP23 Registration Now Includes Free Access to Virtual ACEP23 For the first time ever, those…
Emergency Physicians as State Legislators
During the recent Leadership and Advocacy Conference (LAC) in Washington, D.C., I met with two emergency physicians…
West Virginia EPs Explain Challenges of Rural EM to Their Legislators
Catherine “Kirby” Kirbos, MD, is a fellow at West Virginia University who works at several different emergency…
Leveraging Large Language Models (like ChatGPT) in Emergency Medicine: Opportunities, Risks, and Cautions
Recently, large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT and Med-PaLM, have generated a lot of buzz in the…
Conversations on Burnout
With recent studies showing emergency physicians topping the charts with 65 percent reporting burnout, the specialty is…
8 Pitfalls in Recognition and Management of Acetaminophen Toxicity
About one billion doses of acetaminophen are taken safely per annum, and 60 million people in the…
Lessons Learned from the Silicon Valley Bank Meltdown
Question I was shocked to see bank runs in March 2023. I thought those went away after…