A Slice of Chocolate Pie
My daughter finished school at noon. I had packed the car that morning, so we all piled…
Opinion
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A Slice of Chocolate Pie
My daughter finished school at noon. I had packed the car that morning, so we all piled... -
An open letter to central line packaging engineers
Dear Sirs, First, thank you for putting all the tools I need into one sterile package, minimizing... -
Culture of silence
I believe it all started in the weeks following the 9/11 attacks. The transformation was subtle at...
An open letter to central line packaging engineers
Dear Sirs, First, thank you for putting all the tools I need into one sterile package, minimizing…
Can emergency physician stress lead to bigger problems?
A video made the rounds late last year that showed a truck running through a parking lot…
EBM and the ‘Five Stages of Grief’
If you have ever been confronted by an Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) “zealot,” you know that we can…
‘All ye who enter here abandon logic’
Reason drives us as physicians. Logic courses through our veins and supports the choices we make. However,…
Profit in health care
At the root of the debate over ObamaCare is the Marxist notion that all profit is waste,…
Strategies for success
As I am getting into my 3rd year of practice as a faculty member in emergency medicine…
The Incomplete Macro Manifesto
As Anton Chekhov wrote, “One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one…
Evaluating pain
Pain is supposed to be the fifth vital sign. How we evaluate it now is just a…
Culture of silence
I believe it all started in the weeks following the 9/11 attacks. The transformation was subtle at…