Nearly every strategy addressing the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE) revolves around the D-dimer test. These crosslink…
In addition to our nominal business of handling true medical emergencies, typical emergency departments also provide care…
In the last few decades, as advanced imaging has become pervasive, a few adverse effects relating to…
“Have you thought about pulmonary embolism [PE]? I’ll come see the patient, but would you mind putting…
There are many overused tests in the vastness of medicine, but few synthesize both overuse and inappropriateness…
Publication of practice-changing literature reached a fevered pitch this year
Can you remember the last time you worked a shift in the emergency department and ordered zero…
There are dueling laments between what could be called “the stroke industrial complex” and the physicians on…
There is a bit of an axiom that circulates in medical school: “Half of what you’re learning…
In the vast ocean of medicine, few diagnostic dilemmas descend so quickly into madness as does pulmonary…