This is my March EM News column Silly Scripting Games Our nurses will soon have ‘scripting’ guidelines for their interactions with patients. This is apparently widespread in many industries. The idea being, patients will be more satisfied with their … Continue reading
Here’s my column in today’s Greenville News. ‘Evil is restrained by the courage of armed citizens.’ http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20130113/OPINION/301130016/Ed-Leap-Evil-restrained-by-courage-armed-citizens?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Making Despite the assertion that gun-owners like me are dangerous Neanderthals, we do have a few good points to make in the current debate. … Continue reading
Yesterday was nearly cataclysmic. Sitting in the emergency department, tapping merrily away on my computer (the main consumer of my time), it suddenly said: ‘Fatal error, program will shut down.’ It happens, no big deal. Until all of the computers … Continue reading
This is my March EM News column. We live in the age of EMR. An age in which it’s almost impossible to work in a hospital or clinic setting without the endless tap of keys as the metronomic background to … Continue reading
Sir, you appear to have a life-threatening aortic dissection, in which the large blood vessel in your chest has a tear. ‘Uh, yeah, so can I get a Lortab?’ Ma’am, I believe you have pneumonia and need antibiotics. ‘I figured. … Continue reading
What if the serial numbers on the shooter’s ‘AK-style weapon’ showed that it was released in operation Fast and Furious? Just saying… http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/11/16/bullet-hit-white-house-window-secret-service-confirms/ I’ll bet the investigation would proceed a little faster, don’t you? Just joking. We’d never hear about … Continue reading
Two days ago I gave a talk at a regional medical school. Because I would be parking on a university campus, I removed my pistol from my glove-compartment. In South Carolina I may keep it there lawfully. In addition, I … Continue reading
America is full of hungry children…and adults. Kids that go home every night from school, and go back as fast as possible because at school, there is food. One of my dear friends, a grade-school, teacher, has a student who … Continue reading
Showing my papers Do you remember the furor over the Arizona immigration law? ‘We don’t want to live in a country where you have to show your papers! This isn’t Nazi Germany!’ Everyone was all in a vapor about the … Continue reading
See my disability column at KevinMD! http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2011/09/americans-broken-disability-system.html Thanks to Dr. Kevin Pho for posting it! Ed