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Emergency Physician Dr. Mark Plaster Prepares Run for U.S. Congress
Mark Plaster, MD, is not your typical emergency physician and certainly not your typical politician. Born the son of a minister in the Midwest, Dr. Plaster focused on academics and basketball...
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ACEP Grants Support Policy Scholarships in Emergency Medicine
National health policy is playing an ever-increasing role in the day-to-day practice of medicine, and it’s becoming more important for physician groups to advocate effectively for policies that benefit...
View ArticleACEP 2016 Legislative Advocacy Conference Highlights
Speaker Steve Stack, MD, president of AMA, and ACEP member. ACEP physicians took to Washington, D.C., and Capitol Hill at the 2016 Legislative Advocacy Conference May 15-18. This year featured...
View ArticleLeadership and Advocacy Conference Informative, Inspirational for Emergency...
Dr. Cosgrove: “The world is run by those who show up.” I was never really one for politics. Throughout high school, I sat quietly and somewhat apathetically at the dinner table and in the classroom,...
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Radiation Therapy Overuse Spikes in the Emergency Department
ILLUSTRATION/PAUL JUESTRICH; PHOTOs shutterstock.com Can you remember the last time you worked a shift in the emergency department and ordered zero computed tomography (CT) scans? Can you even imagine...
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A Marriage of Old Data and New Concepts: New Sepsis Definitions Raise...
ILLUSTRATION/PAUL JUESTRICH; PHOTOs shutterstock.com Sepsis can be a difficult condition to diagnose thanks in part to non-specific criteria; the definitions of sepsis and septic shock were last...
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Gun Control Issue Fosters Pro–Con Advocacy Debate in Emergency Medicine
Gun violence is an ever-growing concern in the United States, and there’s no question that emergency physicians are at the front line for treating its victims. But how far should emergency medicine go...
View ArticleAmerican College of Surgeons Considers Promoting Firearm Safety, Injury...
© SHUTTERSTOCK.COM Firearm safety is a topic not only being discussed within ACEP but also of interest to other professional societies. At the most recent American College of Surgeons Committee on...
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Telepsychiatry, Emergency Psychiatric Services Can Reduce Mental Health...
Psychiatric boarding is the phenomenon of mental health patients who are otherwise medically stable waiting for a psychiatric evaluation or disposition while in the emergency department. It’s a...
View ArticleLoperamide Abuse Associated with Cardiac Dysrhythmia and Death
Paracelsus, the Swiss-German physician credited as the father of toxicology, wrote in the early 1500s, “All things are poison, and nothing is without poison: the dose alone makes a thing not poison.”...
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Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association Highlights Initiatives, Projects in...
The mission of the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA), founded in 1974, is to be the voice of emergency physicians in training and the future of the specialty. I am happy to report that...
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Emergency Department Patients’ Demographics, Disposition, Composition Affect...
The composition, demographics, and disposition of today’s emergency department patients are changing as quickly as the landscape itself, and this is changing how patients pay for EM services. Let’s see...
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ACEP 2016 Board of Directors Candidates Describe Their Traits, Skills,...
ILLUSTRATION: PAUL JUESTRICH, PHOTOS: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM At its meeting in April, the ACEP Board of Directors was advised of the slate of candidates created by the Council Nominating Committee for four...
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ACEP Staff Member Patty Stowe to Retire after 43 Years
ACEP’s director of membership and customer service, Patty Stowe, will retire from the College on Sept. 30 after 43 years of service. It is likely no one else will ever match a career at ACEP that spans...
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Mandatory Electronic Prescribing Inconvenient, Confusing for Emergency...
(click for larger image)Figure 1. Each red mark represents the address of a different pharmacy in New York City. PHOTO: NAYAN PATEL, MD Many emergency physicians may be aware that electronic...
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Better Communication with Medical Leadership Brings More Opportunities for...
SHUTTERSTOCK.COM As I entered the physicians’ parking lot, I rehearsed the conversation I was dreading. This was the day I would quit my job. It was my first job out of residency, and I loved my...
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AMA Opposes Mandatory American Board of Medical Specialties’ Recertification...
The American Medical Association (AMA) met in June in Chicago at the AMA House of Delegates Meeting to discuss a number of resolutions affecting physicians, and certainly one of the most interesting...
View ArticleACEP16 Opening Session Speaker Diana Nyad Finds Parallels Between Emergency...
PHOTO: Andrea Mead Cross For many patients, a trip to the emergency department can be full of chaos and uncertainty. But not for motivational speaker Diana Nyad, who sees medical warriors and...
View Article#ACEP16 Likely to Be Popular Trending Topic on Twitter
What did @gruntdoc say about that lecture this morning? What does @jeremyfaust look forward to at innovatED? How lost did @srrezaie get in the hotel trying to get to the Exhibit Hall? What are you up...
View ArticleACEP16 Research Forum Integrates Science, Education Throughout Conference;...
This year at ACEP16 in Las Vegas, integrate science and education at emergency medicine’s premier research event, ACEP Research Forum. Looking for a spark of inspiration to bring back to your emergency...
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