What It Really Means To Have Your Work Be A Family
by: USACS
A family, says Dr. Kurtis Mayz, doesn’t always get along: “It’s not all rainbows and butterflies,” he said in a recent interview. “We fight, we have our disagreements, we play together, we love together, and at the end of the day, we’re a family. We all pull together in the same direction and we move […]
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The Electric Daisy Carnival: What It’s Like to Provide Medical Coverage for a 400,000 Person Rave
by: USACS
Peter Carlo recalls the first time he was asked to provide medical staffing for a rave – he had had never heard of a rave before. “I was like, a rave? Explain.” But this wasn’t just any rave. This was the Electric Daisy Carnival, or EDC. It is one of the largest electronic dance music […]
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Integrated Acute Care: The Impact of a Patient Centered Admission Team
by: Dr. Robbin Dick
When patient care is a priority, there is a natural integration of more and more elements of the patient’s hospital experience, from their entry process through their stay and finally their discharge. Not only is integrating care delivery service more efficient at delivering care – it’s more effective. An integrated care delivery model starts with […]
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In Your First Real EM Job Search, Don’t Worry: Everyone Eventually Gets to Point B
by: Dr. Travis Ulmer
This time of year can be disorienting for junior residents. Many of their senior residents will be about to, or will have signed contracts for their first job while they are just starting what is likely to be their first job search in a very, very long time. When the fall of my chief year […]
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Dr. Tony Cirillo On Politics, Winning ACEP’s Excellence in Health Policy Award, and Getting Back “A Little Bit of the Soul”
by: USACS
Dr. L. Anthony Cirillo had been working on the industry-wide battle to get a reasonable replacement to Medicare’s “Sustainable Growth Rate” formula for more than a decade before Congress finally acted. Since 2002, Congress had been passing a series of “doc fixes,” one after another, to prevent the SGR from causing gigantic cuts to physician […]
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