Do Emergency Physicians judge patients on race, sex, sexual orientation, weight, etc.? St. Emlyn’s
A few years back I picked up a book at the airport by a chap called Malcolm Gladwell, a rather famous writer it turns out and one familiar to many […]
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Emergency Medicine: A risky business part 6. How many steps to disaster?
So what do we mean by a miss exactly? Is it always a terrible thing and why is it that if we constantly miss diagnoses (we do you know) we
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Does Magnesium work in asthma? St.Emlyn’s
wikimedia This is a roller coaster journey for me. Many years ago Virchester ED was one of the first hospitals to start using Magnesium for the treatment of acute severe
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Developing EM – ethical Emergency Medicine in Cuba. St.Emlyn’s
Lee Fineberg and Mark Newcombe are Emergency Physicians and Helicopter-Retrieval specialists from Australia, but more than that they seem to be a couple of top chaps who have devoted a
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Sir Alex Ferguson and Emergency Medicine
This week Sir Alex Ferguson retired as the manager of Manchester United Football Club, after 26 highly successful years in charge. Sir Alex has been an inspiration to me, in
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Joe Lex at St. Emlyn’s
On Thursday 25th April 2013 we were honoured to have Dr. Joe Lex at St. Emlyn’s as the first ever Visiting Professor in our virtual hospital. What a way to start,
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JC: Is that IV really needed?
Just a quick review of a thought provoking paper in the Annals of Emergency Medicine from a group of docs in Melbourne Australia. It’s thought provoking as I suspect that
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JC: Delta signs for shock trauma
I recently had a bit of fun at the Telford trauma conference talking about the top 10 papers of 2012 and in passing mentioned the #dogmalysis of ATLS shock categories
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