Category: Emergistan and Medicine
Holding Patients, Watching the Portents
by Edwin | Jan 13, 2023 | Emergistan and Medicine, substack | 0 |
This is my latest post at Substack. Please consider subscribing. It’s free. There’s a sign-up link below. https://edwinleap.substack.com/p/holding-patients-watching-the-portents I recently worked an...
Read MoreHappy New Year! Be Careful Out There.
by Edwin | Dec 31, 2022 | Emergistan and Medicine, substack | 0 |
I knew a surgeon once who had lost a child to a tragic accident. Whenever I spoke to him by phone, consulting him on a patient, he would close by saying, ‘hey, Ed, be careful out there, OK?’ I thought it was very...
Read MoreIf it’s a cold, it’s a cold…Staying home from the ER.
by Edwin | Nov 29, 2022 | Emergistan and Medicine, substack | 0 |
Staying Home from the ER If it’s a cold, it’s a cold. Edwin Leap 10 hr ago I have been complaining for months about the state of our emergency departments and hospitals and about the absence of news coverage of the...
Read MoreHave Mercy on the ER
by Edwin | Nov 19, 2022 | Emergistan and Medicine, MedPage Today | 0 |
This is my latest column at MedPage Today. It’s a plea for the healthcare profession in general to show mercy to the emergency departments of the land. We’re overwhelmed. The fewer people sent in for non-emergent...
Read MoreWatching the Numbers in Healthcare. It’s Not Pretty Out There.
by Edwin | Nov 12, 2022 | Emergistan and Medicine, substack | 1 |
https://edwinleap.substack.com/p/watching-the-numbers-in-healthcare I’m watching the numbers. In the hospitals where I work, in Southern Appalachia, ERs are holding far too many patients and inpatient floors and ICUs are...
Read MoreWhat if There Were no Options in an Emergency?
by Edwin | Nov 6, 2022 | Emergistan and Medicine, substack | 0 |
What if indeed… Photo by Caseen Kyle Registos on Unsplash Geographically, you’re a physician in a very small, very rural but locally imporant hospital. Hypothetically you have a patient who is having a heart attack....
Read MoreGod Help the ER
by Edwin | Nov 5, 2022 | Emergistan and Medicine, faith and medicine, substack | 1 |
I’ve always liked this prayer. Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Christ. Rest your weary ones. Bless your...
Read MoreWaiting and Miserable in the ER
by Edwin | Oct 26, 2022 | Emergistan and Medicine, substack | 0 |
When we go to an airport, we can get a sense of how things are going by reading the screens that display arrivals and departures. When the screen says “delayed” or “canceled,” we know it’s going to be a long...
Read MoreHappy Emergency Nurses Week!
by Edwin | Oct 12, 2022 | Emergistan and Medicine | 0 |
Happy Emergency Nurses Week! https://edwinleap.substack.com/p/happy-emergency-nurses-week I was raised by a nurse. My mother, while not an emergency department nurse, was an early telemetry nurse. I remember seeing...
Read MoreThe Strategic Danger of our Situation in Healthcare
by Edwin | Oct 8, 2022 | Emergistan and Medicine | 0 |
I was, for a while, a lecturer/consultant for was called the Domestic Preparedness Program. This was an initiative by the Department of Justice to ensure that first responders around the US were prepared to deal with the...
Read MoreThe National Transfer Registry
by Edwin | Oct 6, 2022 | Emergistan and Medicine | 0 |
If you’re involved in emergency care or hospital care, involved in EMS or disaster management, then you know how painful, difficult and dangerous patient transfers can be. If so, then this is an app you should download....
Read MoreHealthcare Worker Empowerment
by Edwin | Oct 6, 2022 | Emergistan and Medicine, substack, Writing | 0 |
In a time of staffing shortages and exploding needs, the power structure may be shifting… It’s time for me to get my flu shot. I don’t mind. I’ve done it for years now and I have never had an adverse...
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