Critical Decisions: Spider and Insect Envenomation
From the EM Model 6.0 Environmental Disorders 6.1 Bites and Envenomations Among the nearly 40,000 spider species…
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Critical Decisions: Spider and Insect Envenomation
From the EM Model 6.0 Environmental Disorders 6.1 Bites and Envenomations Among the nearly 40,000 spider species... -
St. Louis Area Physician Named ED Director of the Year
Dr. Savoy Brummer accepted the award for Emergency Department Director of the Year on April 29 and... -
Ultrasound-guided peritonsillar abscess drainage
Peritonsillar abscess (PTA) or quinsy is a potentially severe suppurative complication of upper respiratory infection that is...
St. Louis Area Physician Named ED Director of the Year
Dr. Savoy Brummer accepted the award for Emergency Department Director of the Year on April 29 and…
Ultrasound-guided peritonsillar abscess drainage
Peritonsillar abscess (PTA) or quinsy is a potentially severe suppurative complication of upper respiratory infection that is…
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,…
Eyewitness Report: On Site at the Boston Marathon
Marathon Monday starts early with registration for runners and a briefing for thousands of volunteers. Because of…
Strategies for success
As I am getting into my 3rd year of practice as a faculty member in emergency medicine…
Culture of silence
I believe it all started in the weeks following the 9/11 attacks. The transformation was subtle at…