While the output here has fallen from blogborygmi's heyday, this site's original purpose was to foster writing opportunities with, y...

At ACEP last week, @drsamko tweeted a stat from the great Amal Mattu : the audience forgets 40% of new content from a presentation within 2...

I'll be speaking at BlogWorld Expo in LA on November 4 at 4pm , on how social networks can influence patient outcomes. I'll be joi...

Long before my colleagues knew me as "that guy who sewed a pocket into his white coat so he could use his iPad in the ED " ... but...

I like asking patients about their jobs. Sometimes it may seem relevant to the complaint. Other times, it could potentially help the therape...

I was contacted by the folks at RN Central about running an infographic about the dangers and errors associated with hospital night shifts ...

Over email, some far-flung EM colleagues and I were discussing a case, where an elderly but generally healthy man developed a fever, went to...

Notable figures such as Atul Gawande and Captain Sullenburger have, when discussing safety in medicine, drawn comparisons from the world o...

You know, I already thought that s omeone at Apple shared my taste in music , as they've highlighted Goldfrapp albums on their site, on ...

Grand Rounds needs you. Val Jones and I have recognized that GR works better when we invest in a higher profile  -- e-mail blasts about ...

According to this reputable source , (and backed up a little by this source ) the concept of the modern grocery store was once laughable. Cu...

Reading the ER Stories blog is often a guilty pleasure for me. Today's post , however, struck a nerve:  Very often I ask patients abou...

I made my first PowerPoint presentation in 1997, and actually used Microsoft's application to prepare 35mm Kodachrome slides for a carou...

I've spent some time recently working with our new ED information system vendors on verbiage. That's what the industry calls the r...

Grand Rounds took a break this week, for the first time in its history. We probably should have done it on earlier occasions, but in the pas...

This year, I learned about the death of two physicians that were pretty important to me. The first was my pathology teacher, Dr. Guido Maj...

Before the App Store, way back in the spring of 2008, I jailbroke my refurbed first generation iPhone. I claimed it was for the cool native ...