Looking At the First 10 Years of Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine
Like many other countries around the world, emergency medicine has proven to be one of the fastest-growing…
Posts by Jed Henson
EQUAL: a Straightforward Approach To Caring for Disabled Patients
A disability is any condition of the body or mind that makes it more difficult for the…
Laryngeal Injuries: An Introduction
A 37-year-old female was walking home from grocery shopping when she had an encounter with a stray…
Subcutaneous Insulin for Diabetic Ketoacidosis
The treatment of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is, in many ways, unchanged: intravenous fluids, electrolyte repletion, insulin, and…
Tips for Working With Interpreters in the Emergency Department
Clinical Case Your next patient is a Spanish-speaking 24-year-old female who begins by telling you that she…
Traumatizing Patients with Trauma Activations
Each time she moved her hand it caught my eye: the glint of her bejeweled fingers sharply…
Using Civic Engagement and Voter Registration to Fight My Burnout
At times, I want to give up this crazy, broken career as an emergency physician. We all…
Brain Trauma Guidelines for Emergency Medicine
In April 2023, the third edition of the Brain Trauma Foundation’s evidence-based guidelines for the prehospital management…
American Physican Partners’ Closing Raises Questions
When American Physician Partners (APP) of Brentwood, Tenn., one of the country’s largest physician staffing firms, announced…
2023–2024 Emergency Physician Compensation Report
Nearly two years since COVID disrupted the emergency medicine job market, things are finally looking up. The…