The eggheads in Washington sit on the beach reading cheap novels while we swim with the sharks....

A 55-year-old female presented to the emergency department with an avulsion laceration to the tip of her...

Neonatal cyanosis may be a signal of serious underlying pathology, and these patients require prompt and comprehensive...

In 1972, Canterbury v. Spence changed American health law, and with it, the patient-physician relationship. Some ethicists...

Emergency physicians surely realize that care of our sickest patients is immensely aided by advance directives. Advance...

The American College of Emergency Physicians reaffirmed that emergency physicians are qualified to administer procedural sedation in...

At its inaugural meeting, the Emergency Medicine Action Fund Board of Governors developed six areas of focus...

Wyatt Decker, M.D., was named Mayo Clinic vice president and chief executive officer of Mayo Clinic’s campus...

A 47-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer who is being followed by home hospice is brought to...

Many of the problems currently facing the U.S. health care system are similar to what emergency medicine...

Despite some concerns that it might do more harm than good, a definition of an emergency physician...