Tag: encouragement for doctors
SC Docs, Consider This Outstanding SC Medical Board Candidate! (With link to vote.)
To my SC physician colleagues who may visit this blog, I’d like to endorse fellow emergency...
Read More“We Want Everything Done for Mama!”
by Edwin | Apr 7, 2022 | Emergistan and Medicine, faith and medicine, Faith, hope and love, substack | 0 |
I believe in the sanctity of life. I believe in the incredible worth of human beings from first conception to last breath. But I believe that sometimes we need to be realistic. Many times I see poor, frail senior citizens who...
Read MoreThe Physician Satisfaction Score
by Edwin | Mar 30, 2022 | conference, Emergistan and Medicine | 1 |
Today is, apparently, ‘National Doctors’ Day.’ Go team! As such, and in homage to the current culture of ‘customer satisfaction,’ I offer my reflections on how to...
Read MoreLife Hacks for Your ER visit
by Edwin | Mar 6, 2022 | Emergistan and Medicine | 0 |
We all have emergencies from time to time and may need to go to the ER. Here are a few suggestions to make things easier and possibly safer for you, the patient....
Read MoreChristian Behavior During COVID
by Edwin | Feb 14, 2022 | Emergistan and Medicine, faith and medicine, Uncategorized | 1 |
I’m concerned about some behaviors out there regarding COVID. Before I go there, let me give some preface. First, I believe in vaccination. From my own personal experience in the emergency department, vaccines save lives. I have...
Read MoreLife in Emergistan: The Debt we Owe Our Parents.
by Edwin | Feb 13, 2022 | Emergistan and Medicine | 0 |
This is a link to my current column in Emergency Medicine News. We physicians think we’re so strong and independent; but we owe a huge debt to the people who helped us along the way. Especially our parents....
Read MoreMedical Families, Time to Vent
by Edwin | Feb 7, 2022 | Emergistan and Medicine, faith and medicine | 0 |
Many years ago I was a full-time ‘nocturnist.’ That is, I worked all nights for our small emergency medicine group. It was actually pretty nice because my compensation was to work fewer shifts than my partners. Allow me to give...
Read MoreTake That COVID! A Shining bit of Good News.
by Edwin | Jan 25, 2022 | Emergistan and Medicine, Faith, hope and love | 1 |
If you know our family, you know that last year my father-in-law, Len Mahon, had COVID-19. He was 83 years old, and had some underlying black-lung from working in the coal mines of WV. He is a robust, active man who loves God,...
Read More“Your Name is Not Doctor.” Christmas Insights and Wishes For My Colleagues.
by Edwin | Dec 1, 2021 | Emergistan and Medicine | 0 |
This is my EM News column from last December. Merry Christmas my treasured colleagues! https://journals.lww.com/em-news/Fulltext/2020/12000/Life_in_Emergistan__My_Name_Is_Not_Doctor.10.aspx...
Read MoreA Dear John Letter…to a Friend Entering Academic Medicine
by Edwin | Oct 4, 2021 | Emergistan and Medicine | 0 |
To my friend who is leaving community practice for the hallowed halls of academia. Watch your mouth. Just sayin… ...
Read MoreOf Course it’s Misinformation! It’s Facebook!
by Edwin | Sep 17, 2021 | Emergistan and Medicine, Issues, humor, hobbies and all the rest, Uncategorized, Writing | 0 |
I see a lot of my physician colleagues online, ranting about all of the misinformation about COVID that they read on Facebook. They are shocked, stunned and disgusted that people would say things that were untrue, or...
Read MoreLife in Emergistan: What it Means When Ethics Miss The Mark
by Edwin | Aug 9, 2021 | Emergistan and Medicine | 0 |
My latest column in Emergency Medicine News. Ethics matter. All of our ethical behaviors as physicians matter. But they have to begin at even the low levels. These are hard to monitor, so they depend on our own internal moral...
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