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Dr. David Klein

Leading from the Front in a New Emergency Department

I recently spent a week working clinically at our new hospital partner, Bristol Hospital, in Connecticut. I worked along many other experienced, seasoned physicians and leaders. In fact, nearly all of our group’s top leadership and senior partners have worked clinical shifts in the Emergency Department there in recent weeks. And “leading from the front,” so to […]

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The Importance of Being Clinicians AND Educators

He had just had a tumor removed from his back and his lung. He was in the hospital bed with a chest tube, an IJ, and a foley. He had been intermittently confused, as expected, and was in no condition to sign the consent. That left his wife, who was about to sign. What else […]

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Body Language and Caring for Our Patients

The next patient was a 25 year old female in room 2. The nurse’s note read, “severe abdominal pain – rates it a 10 out of 10.” Like any good emergency medicine physician, I was already considering the differential diagnosis prior to entering the room. Severe pain in a young female could be an ectopic, […]

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