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“Emergency physicians need to always be looking for trouble.  We also love it when we are wrong” – Brady Pregerson, MD “It’s not our patient’s job to prove they are sick.  It’s our job to prove they are not.” – Yaron Ivan, MD EMresource.org is a free, no-registration, no log-in website designed for MD’s, RN’s…

Well, maybe I exaggerated a bit, but it is in the Top 50 Must-Read Books for Nurses in 2012 While this may be a sometimes humorous account of true stories from the ER, it also reminds us that one bad decision could change our lives. The book is full of pictures, important phone numbers, and a…

We all know about personality types like “Type A”, but there are also patient types, especially when it comes to effective communication during shift changes and sign-outs.  We all understand the challenges of sign-out, and no one likes to get stuck with a patient who is difficult to discharge or has a hundred questions, especially when…

Emergency departments are distilleries that boil complex blends of trauma, stress and emotion down to the essence of immediacy: What needs to be done, right now, to fix the problem. Working the past 20 years in such environments has shown me with great clarity what is wrong (and right) with our nation’s medical system. It’s…

The new ERPocketBooks.com has a fresh and user-friendly design that focuses on clinical medicine. There are medical mysteries, an ultrasound library, and of course pocketbooks. The new site will start out with most of the content of the old site, but will soon surpass it. The old site is still accessible at www.EDinsight.com. If it’s…

Emergency Medicine Pocket References A-to-Z EM Pocket Pharmacopoeia & Antibiotic Guide, 4th ed.  Tabular, alphabetic and quick to use with side effects and contraindications for each drug.  Also tables on toxicities organized by side effect, a complete empiric antibiotic guide, procedural sedation, critical care and more —>> Emergency Medicine 1-Minute Consult Pocketbook, 5th ed.  Our…