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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

Since 2012, I’ve spoken to thousands of suicidal doctors—even published a book of physician suicide letters. It’s a growing crisis affecting over half of all doctors in the U.S., and it has been linked to rising rates of physician depression , doctor suicide , and medical errors. It is unclear to me who first applied the term to doctors.

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Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department

PEMBlog

While elucidating the underlying cause of the hypertensive emergency is important for a patients ongoing care, your role in the pediatric ED is to: 1) stabilize airway, breathing, circulation; 2) minimize worsening end-organ dysfunction by acutely lowering blood pressure; and, 3) start work up to evaluate cause (Patel 2012).