Opinion | Medical Debt Is Killing Our Patients
Venkat is an emergency physician and state representative. As an emergency medicine resident in the early 2000s, I cared for a patient in her early 60s with back pain. Prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), approximately 16% of emergency department patients were uninsured. Often their issues were of low acuity, again […]
What Critter Was Removed From a Human Brain for the First Time?
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What Was Toddler Screen Time Linked To?
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What Caused a Patient’s Legs to Turn Blue?
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Opinion | Questions You Should Be Asking About How Your Physician Group Works
Pines and Aldeen are emergency medicine physicians and leaders of a physician-owned emergency medicine group. Emergency physicians experience burnout at three times the rate of the average doctor. A common refrain underlying this is that corporatization by so-called contract management groups (CMGs) interferes with the physician-patient relationship and erodes the specialty. Acerbic posts in the […]
What Psychiatric Condition Just Had Its First Pill Approved?
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Removal of What Organ Was Tied to Higher Mortality, Cancer Risk?
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Why Was Bronny James in the ICU This Week?
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Opinion | How Much Anguish Must Residents Experience?
Nwodim is an emergency medicine resident. I just completed intern year of my emergency medicine (EM) residency. It was rewarding, but also the most emotionally laborious year of my life. Amidst becoming a family member’s caretaker due to illness, and then working 60- to 90-hour weeks, my emotional anguish experienced as an EM resident has […]
Do ‘Weekend Warriors’ Reap Fewer Heart Benefits?
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