There's a research paper making the rounds in the press and on social media , about Facebook usage in an emergency department. It...

I've pretty much kept my distance from the right-wing noise machine. They don't often talk about my professional interests, and when...

While I've been focusing on peer-reviewed writing these days (though what could be more peer-reviewed than a blog?) you can see some of ...

We hear it all the time: one of the benefits of EHR will be to get a handle on physician practice variation . Between states, and even withi...

No one chooses emergency medicine for continuity of care. It's undoubtedly rewarding for most doctors to help manage patients through gr...

Describe electronic clinical decision support to someone outside of healthcare. They'll probably start conjuring images of  Watson or...

I had an idea for an absurd indie comic strip about Corrective Action Plans - those in-depth multi-departmental administrative remedies that...

I never thought I'd embrace dictation. For emergency physicians, dictation varies department to department. Some require it, some make...

I always liked the idea of the original Ambient Orb -- a device that just sits there, but changes color based on metrics of interest to you...

Members of the social media committee spoke today at SAEM about, well, online social networking and the emergency physician. Our presentatio...

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...