News
I am now a part of the Get Better Health Network
2009-10-02
My blog posts will now be featured by Get Better Health
Medblogs Grand Round
2009-01-02
Greetings all! I'm hosting Grand Rounds for January 6. I want to tell you about the theme. Profit in health-care. What do I mean? Well, lots of things are driving my thinking here...
A new place to read my column!
2008-10-04
This month you can start seeing my column in The Baptist Courier (at www.baptistcourier.com), our SC state Baptist newspaper. I"m thrilled and feel very privileged at this opportunity to share my columns with other believers in that venue...
My diabetic hero!
2008-10-03
When you think of heroes, who comes to mind? Political figures? Religious leaders? Warriors? Liberators? Comic book characters? When you think of heroism, what do you envision? Do you think damsels rescued, sick persons saved, battles or games won? ...
Let's Talk Turkey, an audio CD
2008-08-31
Here's a link to the audio CD I recorded last year with Carol Rivers, MD. Carol is well-known and highly respected emergency physician from Ohio, whose company, Emergency Medicine Educational Enterprises, has provided board preparation material to emergency physicians for two decades...
I'm in the LA Times!
2008-08-13
Great news! My blog was recently mentioned in an LA Times story on medical blogs! ...
Great News!
2008-06-19
Hey everyone, thanks for all your support! I just wanted to let you know that I recently learned that my monthly column in Emergency Medicine News, titled 'Second Opinion,' won a Gold Medal for a contributed column from the American Society of Healthcare Publications Editors, ASHPE. (You can see the awards this year at www.ashpe.org.) ...
To see my column in the current edition of Medical Economics
2008-05-10
Here is the link to my column in the current issue of Medical Economics. I hope you enjoy it! ...
Excerpt from my next book
2008-04-28
My next book is called ‘God our Papa.’ It’s about all I have learned about God by being a father, since he is our true father, and the best father of all. It’s written as part memoir of life with my own children, part reflection on the spiritual implications. Here’s a little excerpt...
Links for WMD Lecture
2008-04-16
To those who attended my lecture on WMD at the Focus on the Family conference, 'Balancing Faith, Family and Practice.' Here are some web-links that will provide you with tons of information on WMD agents, recognition, management, news and updates. Many of these sites provide links to outstanding training opportunites! ...
Thoughts on the Sex Issue
2008-03-11
So, I've probably made some folks mad by my column in today's Greenville News. If you haven't seen it, I take to task the Clemson Tiger, a student newspaper at Clemson University, for their February 15 Sex Issue. If you want to read the column you can go to my blog (www.edwinleap.com/blog) where I just posted it...
Focus Medical Conference
2008-02-25
Would you like some medical education along with Christian inspiration? Would you like some encouragement in the battle that modern medicine can be? ...
What you're worth
2007-07-24
In this month's Emergency Medicine News (July, 2007), I wrote about physicians and suicide. In particular, I wrote about how a malpractice lawsuit increases a physician's tendency to commit suicide. I also wrote, at the end, that readers should come to my site for comments on worth. And I want to take a minute to address worth, worthlessness and guilt...
Article in Focus on the Family Newsletter
2007-07-13
I want to express my thanks to Dr. James Dobson, and the staff of Focus on the Family. Dr. Dobson has graciously allowed me to write a number of articles for his organization over the years. And this month (July, 2007), he has included one of my articles, reprinted from Emergency Medicine News in the Focus on the Family newsletter. The article is about the lessons I learned as a physician while working with our church's Vacation Bible School last summer...
Working Knights (My first book)
2007-01-02
Medicine is a profession of stories, emotions and lessons. A dying old man with dementia can suddenly become a reminder that every child will be old and helpless one day. An addled, anxiety-prone woman who thinks she is under a spell shows the goodness in everyone, as she constantly prays for..