perspectives

What do you get when you ask some of the most influential emergency physicians about their careers in emergency medicine, including their successes, failures, and impact on EM?…Welcome to emDocs’ new EM Collective Wisdom Series!

Sleep can be a battle with the constant change in shift schedule in emergency medicine. How do you improve sleep and your wellness? This post from Jennifer Robertson provides key points on sleep in emergency medicine.

This week’s EM Educator Series looks at postpartum complications. Dr. Koyfman provides key considerations and resources for clinicians and educators.

Welcome back to “Spoken Word Poetry Meets Medicine” by Dr. Alex Koyfman. This series consists of poems describing our practice of emergency medicine: the challenges, triumphs, hardships, and rewards.

Welcome to Quality Corner, a new emDocs series evaluating tough cases and potential areas for improvement. The goal of this series is to provide you with the necessary information to optimize your care and documentation in the ED. Today we look at the bleeding fistula and neutropenic fever.

Our specialty is at a crossroads… We are tasked with much, but are we taking care of ourselves?

Depression and suicidality are all too common in physicians, residents, and medical students. This is part 1 of a series evaluating these concerns.

Burnout is a issue that remains a problem for physicians of all specialties. This is a general overview burnout, how to measure it, and a brief discussion on potential solutions. Future articles will further address solutions to burnout and how employers and hospitals can take measures toward prevention and treatment.

This is an introduction to a new series on emDocs, a discussion on wellness. The goal is to introduce the topic, discuss why it is important and how we all can take measure to improve the mental, emotional and physical health of physicians.

A great deal of controversy surrounds the association of IV contrast with acute renal injury. However, a recent study suggests this association is myth rather than fact. This post by Dr. Sinert evaluates this new study and the importance of confounders.