Your ED Boarding Stories Shape ACEP’s Advocacy Efforts
Wait times and staffing shortages are causing bottlenecks that are overwhelming hospitals, forcing emergency care to spill...
ACEP Now: Vol 42 – No 02 – February 2023
Ping Ping Ping Goes the Bullet—or Should It?
Note: This article is our CME Now offering for the February 2023 issue. After you read it, visit ACEP’s Online...
From the Editor: the Boarding Crisis
Honestly, I’ve never seen it this bad in my many years of practice. On my last shift,...
Readers Respond: Dental Avulsions, Reperfusion Guidelines, and More
Re: “There Are Only Four Effective Interventions in Emergency Medicine” In 1980, a wise, old teacher noted...
Creative Careers: Tonya Walker, MD, MPH
Doctor Tonya Walker’s first love was public health, and it’s that passion that has guided her into...
Report on ED Diagnostic Errors Sparks Controversy
When the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released its systematic review of diagnostic errors in...
The AHRQ Diagnostic Errors Study: A Peer Reviewer’s Reaction
In December 2022, Newman-Toker et al., published a systematic review on emergency department (ED) diagnostic errors with funding...
Dr. Alister Martin’s Medical Entrepreneurship for Equity
Alister Martin, MD, MPP, encapsulates a mindset that embodies the spirit of emergency medicine: the entrepreneurial spirit....
Shift from Metabolize-to-Freedom to Medication-Assisted Treatment
“Metabolize to freedom” or “MTF” as it is commonly known to emergency physicians is too frequently the...
Why Physicians Are Overconfident and How We Can Overcome It
Medical training oftentimes relies on pattern recognition, which is necessary to develop an excellent clinician who is...
High Dose Nitroglycerin in Acute Heart Failure Goes Mainstream
The current acute management of patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) in florid pulmonary edema barely...
An Incorrect Report on Emergency Department Diagnostic Errors
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine published a report entitled, “To Err Is Human,” that estimated 44,000...
What is a 457 Retirement Plan and Should I Use It?
Question I recently changed jobs and my new job offers both a 403(b) plan and a 457(b)...
Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Remain and Gain, or Load and Go?
Case A 22-year-old pitcher gets struck in the chest by a baseball coming off the bat while...
Have You Been Impacted by Non-Compete Clauses?
In early January, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed to ban non-compete clauses in all employment contracts....
Funding Available for PACED Accreditation
ACEP's Pain and Addiction Care in the ED (PACED) accreditation program aims to accelerate the transfer of...
New Patient Education Resources Available to Encourage COVID-19 Treatments
ACEP members can find new print and digital materials for download that can help educate patients about...
Save $100 On Upcoming Pediatric Emergency Medicine Conference
Join your pediatric emergency medicine peers in the Big Apple for the 2023 Advanced Pediatric Emergency Medicine...
Hear Our Special Podcast Episode with Dr. Pam Bensen
In honor of Women Physicians Day on Feb. 3, ACEP Now Resident Fellow Sophia Gorgens, MD, hosted...
ACEP Member Benefit Spotlight: PEPID Subscription Discount
PEPID empowers emergency physicians to make better, faster, decisions, at the point of care. Trusted for over...
Medicine with Heart: Why Words Matter
“The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling...
