Tag: advance-directive
Advance Directive: Allow Natural Death
May 18th, 2012by: Dr. Angelo Falcone
The more I practice emergency medicine, the more I think about end of life care and the futility of much of what we do as patients try to complete their time on this earth. Many emergency physicians have been faced with the reality of “coding” an elderly nursing home patient because the family insists that […]
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Saving Time in the ER, Even When It’s Not Life and Death
May 14th, 2012by: Dr. Josh Muyderman
In the ER, we celebrate small improvements. After all, we work in a place where a few minutes saved could mean the difference between life and death. In other cases, shaving a few minutes off a process here or a protocol there may result in somewhat less dramatic payoff. Take our recent Kaizen project at […]
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