Author: Edwin

On families

A family is a small kingdom. Their house is the castle, to be cliché. It is mutable, its location flexible. But the royalty, the humans that live within it, define the kingdom. Small children understand this very well. The idea...

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Social Screening

We have a computerized patient tracking system in our department.  It’s a great thing, because it helps us to follow our patients’ progress through their visit, helps us to keep an eye on their wait times, makes bedside...

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EMTALA hope

For those not in emergency care, EMTALA stands for Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.  It is a law that says that everyone in our emergency departments must be treated without hospitals or doctors asking for...

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Killing

I was speaking to the father of a soldier not long ago.  He was relating that his son is having trouble coping with his time in Iraq.  Not only is he struggling over the loss of friends, not only over the horrible violence of...

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