I love being at an academic institution for many reasons. One of which is that the residents keep me on my toes -- they've read the lat...

I've noticed more patients complain of gout recently -- maybe it's a sign the economy is improving (gout has long been considered a ...

I've been using my iPad in the ED, with my white coat's sewn-in iPad-sized pocket, for some time now -- mostly for patient and resid...

For years I noticed a burst of productivity around the holidays. stuff that had been hanging over my head for months would suddenly get done...

Today's ACEP Member Communication email (entitled Emergency Medicine Today, in affiliation with BulletinHealthcare) had this as its top ...

Heard about an old friend, sharing the stage with   Billy Squier at our high school's send-off event (as another alum of some distincti...

Sometimes, the blogosphere just decides they're going to discuss something in great detail. And now, with holiday travel upon us, we...

I had a couple of slow shifts in the emergency department recently, around Thanksgiving. And it made me think of Nomar Garciaparra, the old ...

We've been considering FDA oversight of medical apps for a while, over at Medgadget.com. Now, the public comment period has concluded o...

Many thanks to AfternoonNapper  for hosting this week's edition of Grand Rounds .  Next week, I host Grand Rounds... but not here! ...

Remember how people said there was no real need for a device category between smartphones and laptops? And then Apple sold 40 million iPads?...

Medscape's EM editor asked Amal Mattu, Robert Glatter and me to discuss 2011's important papers in emergency medicine . I felt compe...

Music's pretty much done, right? It's fairly easy to hear any song you've ever liked, anywhere you happen to be. As a bonus, tho...

Longtime readers know my fondness of comparing the healthcare industry to the airline industry (based on similar goals of training , rituals...

Thanks to a tip from  Brian Ahier , I've caught wind of excerpts from the IOM report on Health IT Safety  a few days before its schedule...

I've started to think the medical record is akin to DNA. Maybe 10% (or less) is useful information; the rest is junk. When folks want to...

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