Yes I do need a hight capacity magzine! Here’s why… Who needs a high capacity magazine? Who needs a weapon capable of firing more than ten rounds? These questions echo across the airwaves and in the pages of magazines, … Continue reading
Deciding who needs what can be risk business! http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20130203/OPINION/302030022/Ed-Leap-Deciding-who-needs-what-can-risky-business What do you need? It’s an interesting question, much discussed in the wake of the current gun debate. I frequently hear this statement: ‘no one needs a rifle with a magazine … 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
Dear readers, A recent column of mine told how life in the emergency department is like a mission trip to the land of Emergistan. Here it is. http://edwinleap.com/blog/?p=2134 It seemed to strike a cord with many of my readers, and … 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
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
This is my column in the current edition of the Baptist Courier, the newspaper of the South Carolina Baptist Convention. My regular column is titled Cross and Caduceus http://www.baptistcourier.com/7175.article Do you want a mission field, ripe for the harvest? Look … 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