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Unpacking the 2023 Match Week
For decades, emergency physicians took pride in being a much-desired specialty for graduating medical students. Emergency medicine residencies routinely filled 99 percent of their available positions...
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Pros and Cons: Waiting Room Medicine
In the March episode of ACEP Nowcast, I spoke with Luke LeBas, MD, FACEP, about our opposing viewpoints on waiting room medicine. The inevitable fallout of boarding is that now there are no beds in...
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A Case Report on Tetanus
A 38-year-old Hispanic male who immigrated from Ecuador in 2001 and who, at the time of his initial presentation, had been working in construction, landscaping and masonry, presented to our emergency...
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The 2022 Medical Humanities Writing Award Winners
Every year, ACEP’s Medical Humanities Section hosts its Writing and Visual Arts Awards as part of the section’s mission to promote the medical humanities as a source and means of lifelong learning for...
View ArticlePoetry Category Winner: And Breathe—The 2022 Medical Humanities Writing Award...
Every year, ACEP’s Medical Humanities Section hosts its Writing and Visual Arts Awards as part of the section’s mission to promote the medical humanities as a source and means of lifelong learning for...
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Space Medicine: Emergency Physicians Voyage Into the Final Frontier
An astronaut steps onto the rust-red surface of Mars, above her the expanse of the galaxy, bright against the darkness of space. Her teammates are setting up basecamp—after a seven-month journey they...
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Case Report: A Rare, Urgent Testicular Complication
Case A 37-year-old white male with no past medical history presented to the emergency department (ED) for left testicular pain, redness, and swelling. He had presented to urgent care for the same...
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Case Report: EMS Says Flail Chest, But Is It?
Case FIGURE 1: Chest X-ray of multiple rib fractures (arrows). (Click to enlarge.) A 58-year-old male with a history of alcohol abuse presented to the emergency department (ED) as a category 2 trauma...
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Conversations on Burnout
With recent studies showing emergency physicians topping the charts with 65 percent reporting burnout, the specialty is facing a crisis.1 Today, I’m (MK) joined by several experts, Dr. Daven Morrison...
View ArticleLeveraging Large Language Models (like ChatGPT) in Emergency Medicine
Recently, large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT and Med-PaLM, have generated a lot of buzz in the press and among emergency physicians. LLM’s are designed to process large amounts of data,...
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West Virginia EPs Explain Challenges of Rural EM to Their Legislators
Catherine “Kirby” Kirbos, MD, is a fellow at West Virginia University who works at several different emergency department (ED) sites, from the state’s Level I trauma center to rural, critical access...
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Q&A with Two Emergency Physicians in Congress
During the recent Leadership and Advocacy Conference (LAC) in Washington, D.C., I met with two emergency physicians who are currently elected to their state legislature, Amish Shah, MD, MPH, and Arvind...
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ACEP’s Leadership & Advocacy Conference Reminds Us We Aren’t Alone
Sen. Maggie Hasan provides an update on mental health legislation during LAC23. ACEP’s Annual Leadership & Advocacy Conference (LAC) was held April 30–May 2 in Washington, D.C. With Congressional...
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How To Avoid Missing an Aortic Dissection
A 50-year-old female develops chest pain radiating to the neck and left arm. ECG, CXR, and troponin are negative. She is given morphine for pain. Four hours later she develops back pain and bilateral...
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Ten Ways to Communicate Empathy in Chaos
When considering an optimized environment for compassionate patient communication, the chaotic emergency department (ED) probably gives some clinicians pause. EDs, filled with alarms, frequent...
View ArticlePoetry Category Winner: And Breathe—The 2022 Medical Humanities Writing Award...
Every year, ACEP’s Medical Humanities Section hosts its Writing and Visual Arts Awards as part of the section’s mission to promote the medical humanities as a source and means of lifelong learning for...
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Leveraging Large Language Models (like ChatGPT) in Emergency Medicine:...
Recently, large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT and Med-PaLM, have generated a lot of buzz in the press and among emergency physicians. LLMs are designed to process large amounts of data,...
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July 2023 News From the College
ACEP Leads Congressional Briefing on ED Boarding On June 21, ACEP organized a congressional briefing with the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) to...
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Mid-Year Q&A with ACEP President Dr. Chris Kang
Twice a year, ACEP Now speaks to the President of ACEP. This conversation with Christopher S. Kang, MD, FACEP, assesses how his term leading the College has gone so far, and how the profession is...
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Agitation Treatment in the Emergency Department
This is the second in a multi-part ACEP Now series focused on mental health emergencies. Last month’s article focused on ACEP’s efforts and resources to support EDs and patients with psychiatric...
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