VACEP Legal Victory Illustrates Why the Prudent Layperson Standard Still Matters
Maryland enacted the first “prudent layperson standard” (PLP) in state law in 1993 (see related timeline). The PLP standard they devised protected a patient’s access to emergency medical services,...
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EQUAL: a Straightforward Approach To Caring for Disabled Patients
A disability is any condition of the body or mind that makes it more difficult for the person with the condition to do certain activities and interact with the world around them.1 This includes...
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Looking At the First 10 Years of Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine
Like many other countries around the world, emergency medicine has proven to be one of the fastest-growing specialties, including in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The UAE government’s support took...
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2023–2024 Emergency Physician Compensation Report
The Southeast region’s numbers. (Click to enlarge.) Nearly two years since COVID disrupted the emergency medicine job market, things are finally looking up. The Fall 2023 market is up about 20 percent...
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Emergency Physician Climbs the Seven Summits
Ben Mattingly, MD, tries to live by the adage, “One should be adventurous and daring, but not reckless.” The challenge is that the line between adventurous and reckless is often paper-thin. Take, for...
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EQUAL: a Straightforward Approach To Caring for Disabled Patients
A disability is any condition of the body or mind that makes it more difficult for the person with the condition to do certain activities and interact with the world around them.1 This includes...
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Looking At the First 10 Years of Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine
Like many other countries around the world, emergency medicine has proven to be one of the fastest-growing specialties, including in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The UAE government’s support took...
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The Great Surge in Pediatric Mental Health Emergencies
A 15-year-old male is brought to the emergency department (ED) after he jumped from the second floor of a building in a suicide attempt and sustained a complex ankle fracture. His fracture was placed...
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Tips for Real-Time Information Sharing with Patients
Background As Electronic Health Information (EHI) has increased in prominence, the U.S. federal government has set the standard for increasing transparency and transmission of such data. The 2015...
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A Job Search Survey of 2023 Residency Graduates
The emergency medicine workforce is an important issue with ramifications for physicians relocating or retiring, medical students considering the specialty, and graduating residents seeking their first...
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How Long Should an Emergency Medicine Residency Be?
U.S. emergency medicine (EM) residency training length has been a decades-long dilemma: four versus three years. Two important questions befall educators and residents. First, is three years enough...
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Best Practices for Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
Case A 74-year-old man presents with vomiting of blood for two days. He has a history of daily alcohol and tobacco use. Vital signs are: blood pressure, 88/50; heart rate, 120; respiratory rate, 36. He...
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Stanford’s Innovation Exchange
The third annual Stanford Emergency Medicine Innovation Symposium (STEMI X) was held on June 22nd, 2023.This year’s Symposium featured a keynote presentation on digital transformation in emergency...
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Tackling Emergency Department Crowding
Emergency departments (EDs) are currently dealing with big problems of overcrowding and boarding. The number of patients keeps growing, putting more pressure on EDs to find innovative solutions. One...
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Data-Driven Approach Yields New Approach for Emergency Department Triage
Emergency medicine involves a density of decision-making that exceeds that of any other medical specialty. Emergency physicians face high-stakes decisions related to diagnosis, treatment, and...
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An Actionable, Visual Dashboard Approach to Boarding
Boarding has reached crisis levels across the United States, recently culminating in a letter from ACEP and other national organizations to the President outlining the drastic harms to patients, staff,...
View ArticleACEP Chapter Roundup: Highlights and Updates from 2023
As we close out 2023, ACEP’s chapters were invited to share news from the past year and a preview what’s to come. Chapters have been busy advocating for physician autonomy, hosting educational events,...
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Emergency Physician Provides HIV and Hepatitis C Testing, Counseling to...
Yvette Calderon, MD, FACEP, understood health disparities from an early age. Born to Puerto Rican parents who raised her in New York, she saw firsthand how language barriers and a lack of access to...
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Maryland Implements Value-Based Alternative Payment Model
In January 2023, the state of Maryland launched the first-ever government-based emergency medicine alternative payment model. An alternative payment model is a different way of paying for physician...
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Suicide Attempt in the Terminally Ill Cancer Patient with Advance Directive
A middle-aged male with squamous cell carcinoma and extensive metastases is brought to the emergency department (ED) after being found unresponsive following a believed suicide attempt (SA) by...
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