Suture for a Living: Changes
Wow. Imagine stopping being a surgeon. It’s such a part of your life, your identity. Due to many things, I will be closing my practice over the next few months and going to work for the Arkansas...
View ArticleWe Are All Criminals Now : PANDA BEAR, MD
Panda has resurfaced. This is not a Panda that eats bamboo, but from all appearances feasts on spleens. Angry ones. In fact, I was once texting while standing at the nursing station and some supervisor...
View ArticleHCC Blog calls it quits
Dear Readers, It has been my pleasure over the last 4 years to blog on HCC-related topics and exchange ideas with many of you. I have learned a ton from everyone. This is my last post and I anticipate...
View ArticleACEP 12 tweeting: Bukata and Hoffman
Those who don’t follow me on Twitter probably have calm, productive lives. Those who do wonder why I twitter at all. Because it keeps me busy and engaged, that’s why. Here’s an edited compilation of...
View ArticleWhat doctors should look for in job seekers’ social media presence –...
Don’t make yourself unhireable. As the medical director of a health services group that serves racially diverse patients in some of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, Ravi Grivois-Shah, MD, always...
View ArticleFacebook Like Now Covered by the First Amendment – Applications for...
This is at the end of an article talking about something else, but it deserves it own highlight: My favorite thing is when healthcare organizations try and control and restrict social media. As many...
View Article33 Charts — medicine. health. social media.
Well put! After a recent presentation on social physicians, someone asked why there were so many emergency medicine physicians on blogs and social media? Good question. From content to conversation,...
View ArticleHow ER docs actually process what we do
A remarkably good blog post from Seth Treuger ( @MDaware on twitter). The classic model of history, physical, testing, diagnosis & treatment does not apply to us. I think we do 3 things in...
View ArticleABEM and their new POS TOS
A guest post! (Finally, a use for my blog)! So there I was, just cruising the Internet, when I thought to myself, “Jeepers! It’s about time I checked on my ABEM Maintenance of Certification status!...
View ArticleGeriatric Nursing’s top 99 nurse blogs, and I’m one of them!
The whole list is here, and it looks pretty good (Emergiblog is still out there, which is nice, most of the others were new to me), and then there’s the writeup they gave this humble blog: Allen is an...
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