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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. If we don’t name the definitive diagnosis, how do we progress to appropriate labs, tests, and interventions? Doctors have the highest suicide rate of any profession. Not burnout. Let’s not waver on the truth.

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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).