Eyewitness Report: On Site at the Boston Marathon
Marathon Monday starts early with registration for runners and a briefing for thousands of volunteers. Because of...
ACEP News: Vol 32 – No 06 – June 2013
‘All ye who enter here abandon logic’
Reason drives us as physicians. Logic courses through our veins and supports the choices we make. However,...
Ultrasound-guided peritonsillar abscess drainage
Peritonsillar abscess (PTA) or quinsy is a potentially severe suppurative complication of upper respiratory infection that is...
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...
Group Political Interest Gives NEMPAC a Boost
To some emergency physicians, congressional hearings and political campaigns seem a world away from their everyday actions...
Profit in health care
At the root of the debate over ObamaCare is the Marxist notion that all profit is waste,...
EBM and the ‘Five Stages of Grief’
If you have ever been confronted by an Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) “zealot,” you know that we can...
Can emergency physician stress lead to bigger problems?
A video made the rounds late last year that showed a truck running through a parking lot...
Culture of silence
I believe it all started in the weeks following the 9/11 attacks. The transformation was subtle at...
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...
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...
Value of Emergency Medicine
In addition to a press release issued at last month’s Leadership and Advocacy Conference to highlight the...
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...
An Acute Inability to Cope
Medical students often pose the question to me, “Don’t you get tired of the dental pain and...
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...
