by James Gilbertson | Aug 1, 2024 | Commentary, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Physician Wellness
Social media headlines and evolving literature have highlighted the abysmal life expectancy of emergency room doctors. For example, Dr. Ken Milne, the creator behind The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine, recently shared this post on sobering life-expectancy data...
by Josee Malette | Nov 23, 2023 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Quality Improvement
As you’ve gleaned from the title of this blog post, today we are focusing our conversation on CHANGE; with a particular emphasis on its implications in healthcare. However, before we get deep in the weeds, it’s important that we acknowledge the elephant in...
by Shahbaz Syed | Jul 13, 2023 | Featured
Five years ago, as a relatively new staff physician, I had written a letter to my younger-self, as to subscribe some wisdom to the to what I wish I had known heading into residency. Five years later, I’ve realized that early staff transition phase had a lot of...
by Matthew Lipinski | Apr 6, 2023 | Commentary, Featured
“So, what do you do for a living?” “Oh, Emergency Medicine! You must have some wild stories, what’s the craziest thing you’ve seen?” If you work in Emergency Medicine (or to be honest any aspect of medicine) you have likely had some version of this conversation...
by Shahbaz Syed | Mar 23, 2023 | Commentary, Featured
Spiritualism represents an important aspect within the domains of wellness. Now, spiritualism is a very personal and individual thing, but having some element of spiritualism has demonstrated benefits to one’s mental health, and our personal philosophies can help...
