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
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
EMR crash…the rise of the robots! 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 … 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
I love changing paradigms. And this is a cool one. You know how you shop online, but then have to check out multiple times? At Christmas it’s particularly annoying. What if you could go to several different catalogs through one … Continue reading