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“Dear ER staff. Our friend is drunk. Fix him.” Unconscious Arizona college student who was “turning blue” left in hospital lobby with Post-It note stuck ... Read moreOh Henry
Current Features Burning belly pain awakens Marcus at 2 AM. Having it multiple times before, he’s tired of waking up and having to walk until it goes away. ‘No more,’ he declares, ‘I’m going to the ER to get some relief.’ Read moreCurrent CME
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Annals study shows clinical signs that necessitate admission in patients with ALTE (when newborns appear to stop breathing): “obvious need for hospitalization (the... Read moreCurrent Features Mr. B presented to the ED acutely septic, likely secondary to an underlying pneumonia. He had advanced dementia and was functionally and cognitively declining at home. His recent life had been punctuated by trips back and forth to the hospital Read moreFinance You’ve heard that taxes are going to increase and you’re waiting for the hammer to drop. We break down the new tax brackets and regulations that will impact you in the coming year. Read moreWhite Coat's Call Room For those of you who don't know what alarm fatigue is, think of a car alarm. The first time you hear it going off, you run to your window to see who's breaking into a car. Maybe you run to the window the second time and the third time, too. By the tenth t... Read morePediatrics
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Diagnostic errors account for most paid claims in medical malpractice cases. Errors in diagnosis were the most common type of claim and also amounted to the highes... Read moreWhite Coat's Call Room Interesting issue brought to my attention by a reader in South Carolina.
One of the hospitals in South Carolina wanted to post a sign in its emergency department waiting room stating the following:
Prescribing Pain Medication in the Emergency Depart... Read moreWhite Coat's Call Room See more HealthCare Updates from around the web at my new digs at www.drwhitecoat.com.
More of a free market approach to medical care. Australian private hospitals noting a large uptick in emergency department patients as patients opt to pay for emerge... Read more |
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This month I present a potpourri of concepts and Quixotic explorations
of ideas mostly brought on by travel, cocktail parties and my obsessive
study of obscure topics. Hold onto your hats. My first topic is the
current struggle which the country seems to be having over marriage. 
The last 40 years have seen enormous changes in the way the healthcare
system handles psychiatric patients. The first shift transitioned psych
patients from the inpatient to the outpatient setting, which led to a
reduction in the number of available inpatient psychiatric beds. The
total number of inpatient psych beds has decreased by 62% since 1970 and
the total number of state and county beds decreased by 89%. 
‘‘We need you in room 4 right now!” You had been in the back room,
enjoying a sandwich during a break in a relatively quiet shift. With
those words, that quiet (and your sandwich) are over. You sprint down
the hall to see what’s going on.