Tag: emergency-medicine-2
Leadership in the ED: Being a Floor General for Your Team
March 20th, 2012by: Dr. Vipul Kella
In sports, the most successful athletes are not necessarily those that have had the best individual statistics, but are those that have managed to make their teammates better around them: Magic Johnson, Isaiah Thomas, or to use a hot new name – Jeremy Lin. These athletes epitomize selfless leadership on the court. While their own […]
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America’s Healthcare System Needs a Social Contract
March 15th, 2012by: Dr. Angelo Falcone
As a citizen it’s easy to clamor for rights. It’s much harder to live up to our responsibilities. And so it is in health care. As citizens we have implicitly agreed to abide by a social contract, which means a person’s moral and political obligations are dependent on an agreement among them to form the […]
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When Are ER Docs Hunting the Snark?
March 5th, 2012by: Dr. Mike Perraut
The old saying about the doctor who tells a patient to “take two of these and call me in the morning” is losing its meaning in today’s modern healthcare system. Today, doctors are weary of sending their patients home without something more, usually an expensive test that either confirms or (less commonly) contradicts their diagnosis. […]
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We Want Our Healthcare Like We Want our Fast Food
February 24th, 2012by: Dr. Angelo Falcone
With due respect to those patient souls among us, America is, in general, an impatient nation. That includes how we think about our healthcare. This is why I read with some interest, and some amusement, stories like “A real ‘doc fix,’” published this week in the New York Times. Basically it says we need to […]
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Maryland’s Health Information Exchange Helps Take the Blinders off Emergency Care
February 21st, 2012by: Dr. Angelo Falcone
The headline on a Washington Post story last week was enough to give almost any healthcare consumer a moment’s pause: “Maryland Hospitals to Share Patient Data.” To which a patient might respond, “Wait, You Mean Hospitals Don’t Share Data Now?” We see it in the Emergency Department all the time. Patients come in who have […]
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After 20 Years in Emergency Medicine, The Worries and Tools I Take to a New ER
January 24th, 2012by: Dr. Angelo Falcone
When I completed my training nearly 20 years ago, I always wondered what type of emergency department I would work in. Two decades later I can say I’ve worked in a lot of different emergency departments, seven of them to be specific. They range from bustling suburban hospitals to small rural facilities to busy trauma […]
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When an Emergency Room Gets New Management, Relationships Come First
January 20th, 2012by: Dr. Noah Keller
It’s no big surprise that there is anxiety when a new management group takes over an Emergency Department. The question is, what can our group do to effectively confront that anxiety? At midnight on December 31st, 2011, our group took over management of the emergency room at Bristol Hospital. The previous group had managed the ER there […]
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Emergency Medicine – Whom Do We Serve?
March 30th, 2011by: Dr. Angelo Falcone
I give a talk to new employees regarding service in emergency medicine. One of the questions I pose is whom do we serve when we practice emergency medicine? Seems like a simple question. We serve patients that come to the ER desiring care. At the most basic level that is indeed what we do. Like […]
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Improving Healthcare Literacy
March 14th, 2011by: Dr. Jeremy Tucker
Emergency medicine has long been called the “safety net” in our medical system, taking care of people who cannot access healthcare through other avenues. While emergency medicine would be more efficient if we only saw true emergencies, this is not a practical reality in today’s healthcare system. We take care of patients with urgent conditions; […]
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Reflections from a Year Anniversary as an Emergency Medicine Attending
September 14th, 2010by: Dr. Mike Perraut
Looking back over my first year of practice in emergency medicine, it’s hard to pick out one thing that stands out. It has really been a blur. Without reflection I might not be able to appreciate the tremendous change I’ve undergone as an attending emergency physician. Change is difficult. It’s stressful and chaotic. Even change for […]
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