How we transformed emergency medicine by 2038: AI, virtual EDs, and culture change. A powerful retrospective for healthcare leaders.
Looking Back from 2038: How We Fixed Emergency Medicine Read More
New UK research reveals 3 types of moral injury in emergency medicine: loss of trust in others, self & authority. St Emlyn’s journal club review of key findings.
JC: When helping hurts – moral injury and the erosion of trust for UK emergency responders Read More
Analysis of NHS UEC plan 2025/26: key changes from previous iterations, strengths and weaknesses, plus core strategies for successful implementation
The Urgent & Emergency Care Plan 2025/26: Evolution, Promise & Challenges Read More
Emergency departments (EDs) often seem to shift from calm to crisis in an instant. Why? This article explores ED crowding through the lens of complexity science and self-organised criticality, explaining how minor changes—like a few extra patients—can trigger disproportionate chaos.
Self-Organised Criticality: Why your ED is like a Sand Pile Read More
The practice of coordinating, consulting and managing an entire acute clinical service in real-time is fairly unique to emergency medicine. Central to this is the EPiC (or emergency physician in charge) role #FOAMed @stemlyns with @codingbrown
An EPiC mental model. St Emlyn’s Read More
Simplifying urgent care data translation is essential for hospital flow improvement. This post provides a perspective on how to achieve this.
Speaking urgent care flow fluently Read More
Stevan @codingbrown gives us insights into his experiences and journey in emergency care and the impact of institutionalised racism that exists. #FOAMed @stemlyns
Equality and global health. What I learned from being a recovering racist… 2023 update Read More
AI language models, along with AI image and voice generation have arrived in much the same way as calculators did in the 1970s. @codingbrown @stemlyns asks an AI language model how it can help EM thrive and explains how AI will enter our workplaces, schools and homes no matter what policies are put in place to govern them. #FOAMed
Do not fear AI, puny humans… Read More
