STAT! EMERGENCY MEDICINE BY THE NUMBERS

 

235 emergency physicians responded to EPM’s quality care survey
Here’s what you had to say...

Emergency physicians discuss end-of-life care

Grandma's Chocolate Cake  –Ilene Brenner, MD

Pneumonia, the friend of the aged  –Alan Jon Smally, MD

My possible future self... –Gary M. Gaddis, MD, PhD

There’s no doubt that emergency medicine is a buyer’s market. Every year demand increases and residency programs fail to turn out enough physicians to pick up the slack.

We polled 478 EPs on workforce issues.

 

Here’s what you had to say

Enjoy this Night Shift from the EPM archives 

Review by Alisa Hayes M.D.
Column organized by Evan Schwarz M.D.
Washington University in St. Louis
Division of Emergency Medicine

 
Citation: Spiro DM, Tay K, et al.  Wait-and-see prescription for the treatment of acute otitis media:  a randomized controlled trial.  JAMA. Sept 2006;296(10):1235-1241. by Dr. Alisa Hayes

 

To the Editor:
In the June 2008 issue of Emergency Physician Monthly, Dr. Henry writes a column entitled “Should Sepsis be the Friend of the Elderly?” This piece presents a disturbing and controversial perspective of aging, health economics, and ethics...