by Ken Milne, Lisa Fischer | Jan 30, 2019 | Featured, Physician Wellness
Today, we’re fortunate enough to be joined by Dr. Ken Milne, also known as BATDOC, from the Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine Ken has an impressive social media reach, and has managed to become a successful emergency medicine clinician, researcher, an...
by Samantha Calder-Sprackman, Nick Costain | Jan 29, 2019 | Featured, Physician Wellness
Despite what you might think when you initially hear the term, there is more to social wellness than having an active social life. Social wellness is the positive effect that friends and loved ones have on your mental and physical health.(1,2) Sure, spending time with...
by Lisa Fischer, Roderick Lim, Louise Rang, Sara Gray | Jan 27, 2019 | Featured, Physician Wellness
We’re back! Move aside John Snow, winter has arrived. The ED’s are crowded, influenza droplets permeate the air, and many of us are still recovering from the working blitz that is required of us during the holiday season (24/7/365 after all). We are feeling the...
by Thara Kumar, Richard Hoang | Sep 20, 2018 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Patient Advocacy
Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAiD, was first legalized in Canada in 2016. At first glance, it may have seemed that this legislation, while an important step in Canadian medical care, would have fairly little impact on our practice in the Emergency Department (ED)....
by Shannon Fernando, Bram Rochwerg | Sep 13, 2018 | Critical Care, Featured
Comprehensively discussing sepsis in the Emergency Department (ED) in a three-page blog is quite frankly, impossible. You would be hard-pressed to find a disease process that has undergone such dramatic change over the past two decades. Through it all, we still do not...
