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I am thankful I have a job in a growth market.
The new intern was scarred for life after his first shift as a resident with me in the ED (emergency department).
I did not want to tempt fate, as unsuperstitious as I might like to think I am, and talk about it before I got the results. All I can really say about it is that I am glad it is over, and I hope that it makes me a better emergency physician.
I made-up a fake oral exam case for fun (and practice). Would you do anything differently?
I paid a lot of money to fail the oral board exam in emergency medicine. Taking it again will be much more expensive.
There are many ways in which war surrounds, infuses, and informs what we do in the emergency room as ED (emergency department) docs. Do doctors facilitate or deter war? War is hell. The ED this last Friday after the Poison concert was no picnic.
I am the statistic - me and the rest of the emergency medicine side show freaks that get bounced on the LAST TEST after passing every other hurdle in a medical career (MCAT, medical school, USMLE 1, 2, 3 and the written board exam).
When part of the small intestine telescopes inside itself, it causes pressure on the wall of the bowel that leads to the ischemia, pain and bleeding that characterize the pediatric surgical emergency called intussuseption.
My daughter has the highest human average speed ever recorded (by me). I propose that she has one of the highest human average speeds in human history.
I was studying about strokes for the oral board exam in emergency medicine and waiting to hear from my brother about how Dad was doing after a small stroke.
Simulation and modeling techniques are being applied increasingly in the field of emergency medicine (EM). The group that I work for as an emergency physician publishes a quarterly newsletter. I guess they are pretty strapped for contributors. So dire is their need for articles they asked me to write something. They even let me pick the topic!
Is generalized war going the same way as tardive dyskinesia? Ken Connor makes a bold recommendation: disband the SAS.
So, often a patient's mild sounding complaint turns out to be an emergency. Far more often, what the patient feels is an emergency is at most an urgent problem, and usually is something they should have taken to their primary doctor. But, we also get the most critically injured and medically ill patients.
If you aspire to be a new EM doc, an accredited residency and ABEM is the only way to go.
Does it bother anyone else that Science Blog now has no hit counter? I was told that it would be back up when new software came on board. That was weeks and weeks ago.
Seems to me that a hit counter is somewhat crucial for a blogsite. And I don't understand why Science Blog can't arrange to have one, especially after this much time. Unless, of course, the powers that be do not WANT people to see the hit counter. I just don't know.
