Dear readers, Below is a letter from one of my dearest friends to his hospital administration. This year, the administration has mandated Influenza vaccination. Short of a few accepted exemptions, it is a requirement for continued medical staff participation by … Continue reading
This is my column in this month’s Emergency Medicine News. In Medicine, Atlas endures. For now… http://journals.lww.com/em-news/Fulltext/2012/11000/Second_Opinion__Atlas_Endures___For_Now.6.aspx Most modern American are familiar with the classic political novel, Atlas Shrugged. Love or hate it, the novel had a great impact on … Continue reading
A big thanks to Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit for the link! This is my column in today’s Greenville News. A topic I’m passionate about, in no small part thanks to hearing Glenn Reynolds, of Instapundit.com, speak on it at Clemson University. … Continue reading
So, here’s my column in today’s Greenville News. It’s titled ‘Press on even when life brings pain and failure.’ That’s sort of the point, but more to the point, it’s about how there’s joy in risk, and a nation of … Continue reading
This is my column in last Sunday’s Greenville News, about the peril of customer satisfaction surveys. http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20120909/OPINION/309090011/Customer-satisfaction-surveys-their-limits?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Opinion|s&nclick_check=1 Customer satisfaction is quite the rage these days. Many stores and restaurants, many professional offices, hand out surveys, or ask customers to log … Continue reading
I am an emergency physician in private practice. My partners and I are a corporation, and we contract ourselves to one facility. As such, we are small business owners. In the current economic and politicical climate, my views on Obamacare … Continue reading
This is my July 1 Greenville News column regarding the SCOTUS ruling on the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. Link followed by text. Have a great day dear reader! Sense of entitlement is likely to metastasize http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20120701/OPINION/307010058/Sense-entitlement-likely-metastasize?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Opinion|s Obamacare has been … Continue reading
Homo Sapiens Entitlus: a species emerges There is a staggering degree of entitlement mentality that wanders through America’s emergency departments. In the 19 years since I finished residency, it has grown in ways I could never have foreseen. It seems … Continue reading
Here is my EM News Second Opinion column for June: ‘Lost Proverbs of the ED.’ Here’s the direct link to EMN. The text is below. http://journals.lww.com/em-news/Fulltext/2012/06000/Second_Opinion__Lost_Proverbs_of_the_ED.11.aspx Lost proverbs of the ED: found in an old liquor bottle outside an urban … Continue reading
Some things in medicine are obvious. Despite the endless worship of ‘evidence-based’ medicine, and the constant barrage of studies on every conceivable topic, we do certain things because we know they just seem right. I take as evidence the fact … Continue reading