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• Riyadh: Consultant Emergency Medicine

  
  International Jobs for Physicians, Nurses and Allied Health - atlasmed.com — Authority: 137
  Security Forces Hospital is a 431 acute care hospital with more than 2,400 employees serving the familities of the Ministry of Interior. The hospital is a well known teaching hospital, critical Care facility and secondary care center in the capital RiyadhJob Opening:Consultant Emergency MedicineRequirements:The ...
  20 hours ago

• Family Receives Medical Bill And Form Letter After Son Dies In ER

  
  Better Health — Authority: 602
  Wow. Just wow: Hospital bill stuns slain student’s parents By Sam Stanton “It was just devastating and insulting,” Gerald Hawkins said Monday. “It’s just hard to grasp for words. My wife and I were near collapse.” On Saturday, 10 days after Scott Hawkins was beaten to death inside his dormitory at ...
  20 hours ago

• Vaccination consternation

  
  edwinleap.com — Authority: 423
  Last week I took my wife and children for our yearly family flu vaccination.  The one Elysa used to call her ‘flea shot.’  Lord knows we’ve had enough fleas; if that would work, I’d consider it.  But I digress.The same day, I went to work and found that the employee health/infection control folks were ...
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• Human factors in medical error

  
  edwinleap.com — Authority: 423
  Here’s a very good video from the UK.  A woman dies from airway difficulties, and the situation is assessed and dissected by her husband, a pilot.  We all have, and will, make mistakes in medicine.  Some of them may be terrible, some inconsequential.  But the most important issue is that we recognize them, learn ...
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• When No One Wants To See The Patient: The ER’s On-Call Labyrinth

  
  Better Health — Authority: 602
  The call schedule is hidden somewhere inside! Dictation: ‘The patient was seen in the emergency department by Dr. Niemans, who is the acting hospitalist on call for Dr. Whitman’s group, who usually admit for the patient’s actual primary care provider, Emily Knight, PA, who works for  Dr. Robelo, who no ...
  1 day ago

• Even Physicians Are Shocked By Healthcare Costs

  
  Better Health — Authority: 602
  I took my son to the ER for a broken thumb. It was a minor injury but the thumb is the most important digit on the hand. The ER care was just fine…a quick look, an Xray and a small splint. We didn’t have to wait long and everyone was courteous. Imagine my surprise to receive the bill from the hospital. Yes, I ...
  2 days ago

• Emergency Medicine: Last Minute Emergency Medicine: A Concise Review for the Specialty Boards by Susan B. Promes

  
  Free Your Mind All Free Download — Authority: 161
  Publisher : McGraw-Hill Professional | Publication date : May 2007 | ISBN : 0071459626 | PDF | 602 pages | English | This new study guide presents all the important topics covered on emergency medicine exams with a special emphasis on comparing and contrasting disease presentations and treatments to one another. ...
  3 days ago

• Dutch pull Pfizer vaccine batch after infants die

  
  2012. The big wobble — Authority: 140
  AMSTERDAM - Dutch authorities say they have banned use of a batch of Pfizers Prevenar, or Prevnar, after three infants died within two weeks of receiving the anti-infection vaccination. "On average about 5 to 10 deaths are reported annually after babies get vaccines," said a spokeswoman for the Dutch health institute ...
  3 days ago

• Safe Blogging Practices: It’s Not WHAT You Say…

  
  Better Health — Authority: 602
  The story of the nursing student who was expelled for blogging got me thinking. (If you haven’t heard the story, check out What Can Nursing Students Blog About? at Code Blog , with an update at Kevin, MD ) Just what can you write about on your blog? Well, you can write on just about any topic. ...
  3 days ago

• Extreme Bleeding

  
  Better Health — Authority: 602
  Recently I had a moment to reflect on adrenaline and adrenaline inducing sports. It was a bloody moment. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Bleeding peptic ulcers occasionally cross the path of general surgeons. Usually they stop bleeding with conservative treatment. But sometimes they don’t. Then you need to whip ...
  3 days ago

• Singapore: Consultant Emergency Medicine

  
  International Jobs for Physicians, Nurses and Allied Health - atlasmed.com — Authority: 137
  Singapore is one of the best-connected countries in the world, with excellent sea, air and telecommunication links. Our culturally-diverse and cosmopolitan city provides attractive and exciting career opportunities. Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) is a 1200-bed tertiary referral hospital, which is conveniently located ...
  3 days ago

• Lost, found and lost again…

  
  edwinleap.com — Authority: 423
  “What kind of mother would I be if I left my son here and went home?”  Reba asked me this with tears in her eyes.  In the midst of a busy shift in the emergency room, it was a question I could not answer.  Her son Jacob, in his twenties, was schizophrenic.  He had wandered [...]
  4 days ago

• “How much unnecessary testing goes on in the ER?”

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 646
  “Plenty, if you ask the people most familiar with the situation, the emergency physicians themselves.” [ KevinMD , Emergency Physicians Monthly , White Coat , WSJ Law Blog ] Relatedly: “Just to be sure: an ER slippery slope” [ MedRants , WhiteCoat ] And yesterday, from the AP . Tags: defensive medicine ...
  4 days ago

• What To Do If You Step On A Sea Urchin

  
  Better Health — Authority: 602
  This is the third post based upon my presentation given at the Wilderness Medical Society Annual Meeting held in Snowmass, Colorado from July 24-29, 2009. The presentation was entitled “Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Water.”” The topic was an overview of hazardous marine animals and it was ...
  5 days ago

• Reducing Hospital Infections With Dedicated Stethoscopes

  
  Better Health — Authority: 602
  When a patient comes in with an infection related diagnoses, efforts are often undertaken to keep that pathogen from spreading to other patient rooms.  In British hospitals they’ve banned ties and long sleeves.  At Happy’s hospital we place a dedicated stethoscope in the patient’s room which is then shared ...
  5 days ago

• BELL TOLLING for the Swine Flu

  
  2012. The big wobble — Authority: 140
  Alarming Info!!! Spanish Doctor Reveals Important Information About Swine Flu - TERESA FORCADES, doctor in Public Health, reflects on the history, and gives scientific data, of A type flu and lists all the irregularities related to this subject. She explains the consequences of the declaration of a PANDEMIC, the ...
  6 days ago

• The on-call labyrinth

  
  edwinleap.com — Authority: 423
  Dictation:‘The patient was seen in the emergency department by Dr. Niemans, who is the acting hospitalist on call for Dr. Whitman’s group, who usually admit for the patient’s actual primary care provider, Emily Knight, PA, who works for  Dr. Robelo, who no longer takes call, but admits his patients to the ...
  6 days ago

• Defeating the Stabenow Bill: Was that good or bad?

  
  WhiteCoat's Call Room — Authority: 468
  Mark Plaster here, author of EP Monthly’s Night Shift column , guest blogging on WhiteCoat’s Call Room. On October 21, the Senate defeated the procedural vote to close debate (cloture) on the bill to eliminate the sustainable growth rate formula (SGR) , thus killing the bill. Was that a bad thing or a good ...
  1 week ago

• Every specialty matters

  
  edwinleap.com — Authority: 423
  Last night I cared for a patient who raised my heart-rate a bit.  Of course, any emergency physician will tell you, the potentially difficult and complicated cases often come at the end of the shift, as you’re trying to clean up all of the paperwork and ‘head for the house.’  Nurse Ginger came to me [...]
  1 week ago

• A little early Thanksgiving!

  
  edwinleap.com — Authority: 423
  This is my column in Emergency Medicine News for November.  The link is below, followed by the text file.Although it’s a little early, and I’m not trying to rush the season, it’s never too early to be thankful.  I forget, too easily, all the blessings showered upon me every day.  So here are a few [...]
  1 week ago

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