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Move the Meat Doctor

by Edwin | Nov 13, 2018 | Emergistan and Medicine, poem | 0 |

Move the Meat Doctor Move the patients faster doctor, In and out they go Metrics are what matter doctor, numbers, don’t you know? Don’t waste time on talking doctor, Diagnose them quick, Click the boxes better doctor, Hurry,...

Thank you Lord for this job

by Edwin | Nov 10, 2018 | Emergistan and Medicine, Faith, hope and love, Writing | 2 |

Dear Lord Jesus, I just finished my shift in the ER. Of course, you knew that. But I was...

A Little Medical Reality

by Edwin | Nov 9, 2018 | Emergistan and Medicine, Writing | 0 |

A Little Medical Reality Does anyone in medicine, particularly emergency medicine,...

Great column by Dr. Mass. Why ‘Medicare for All’ won’t work.

by Edwin | Oct 29, 2018 | Emergistan and Medicine | 0 |

This is a well-done and important column from Dr. Marion Mass, of Practicing Physicians of America. ...

‘Lookwide’ short audio. This edition about marijuana and hyperemesis!

by Edwin | Sep 30, 2018 | Emergistan and Medicine, Podcast | 0 |

This is a new format I was invited to try. Like audio Twitter. Two minute blogs about a variety of topics. What do you think?...

Moral Errors in Decision Making

by Edwin | Sep 11, 2018 | Emergistan and Medicine, Faith, hope and love | 0 |

There’s an ugly undercurrent that sometimes shows up in the emergency department; indeed all over the world of medicine. I’ve seen it in doctors and nurses alike. It’s a meanness, a smallness, a kind of moral judgment that can...

Just Sign the Chart Doctor! Cosigning for NP’s and PA’s.

by Edwin | Aug 31, 2018 | Emergistan and Medicine, Writing | 2 |

Just Sign the Chart, Everybody is Doing It! The problems with cosigning charts for NP’s and...

News Flash: People are Still Mean. Press on.

by Edwin | Aug 29, 2018 | Emergistan and Medicine, Faith, hope and love, Slider | 0 |

One of our nurses had an encounter with a patient today. The patient was in custody,...

Paging Dr. Commodity…

by Edwin | Jul 16, 2018 | Emergistan and Medicine, Writing | 2 |

It’s peculiar, I think, that we live in a time of physician shortage and yet some things remain abundantly clear: 1) Physicians can’t work together to fight, either for their own good or the good of their patients....

Welcome New Residents, Watch Where You Step!

by Edwin | Jun 29, 2018 | Emergistan and Medicine, Issues, humor, hobbies and all the rest, Slider | 0 |

Welcome New Residents, Watch Where You Step! Today is the day that new resident physicians begin their training all across the United States. Today, our future family physicians and pediatricians, neurosurgeons and...