StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

I simply wanted to pull you into my world, through my words, to focus on obscure life and ER moments that possessed a level of rawness and realness that connected you and I as fellow human beings. The emergency department where I have worked for 22 years as an ER physician is busier than it's ever been. I got over a million hits.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives To assess overall medication adherence as an indicator for emergency room (ER) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality among elderly patients. We retrieved information on all ER visits and hospitalizations in internal medicine and surgical wards from 2017 to 2019 and mortality in 2019. The mean age was 81.2

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NPR Health - Shots

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Increasingly, private equity firms shape staffing decisions at hospital emergency rooms, research shows. One apparent effect: Hiring fewer doctors and more health care practitioners who earn far less. Image credit: Phil Fisk/Image Source via Getty Images)

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Emergency Room ER Hospital 145

Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

These are the moments when you don’t have time to wait for an appointment with your primary care doctor, and the emergency room (ER) seems like overkill. They’re like a hybrid between a primary care clinic and the ER—open late, available on weekends, and usually accepting walk-ins. No long waits like you’d experience in an ER.

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NPR Health - Shots

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

At many U.S. hospitals, children and teens are stuck in the emergency department for days or weeks because psychiatric beds are full. Massachussets has a simple, yet promising solution. Image credit: Jesse Costa/WBUR)

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Medical Xpress

MAY 12, 2023

There's a glimmer of good news when it comes to the mental health of America's adolescents: Visits to U.S. emergency departments for psychiatric troubles declined among kids aged 12 to 17 by the fall of 2022, compared to a year prior.

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NPR Health - Shots

APRIL 5, 2023

Image credit: ER Productions Limited/Getty Images) New startups believe chatbot technology could help reduce the burden on physicians. But some academics warn bias and errors could hurt patients.

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NPR Health - Shots

MARCH 28, 2023

A Florida woman tried to dispute an emergency room bill, but the hospital and collection agency refused to talk to her — because it was her child's name on the bill, not hers. Image credit: Zack Wittman/KHN)

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Dr. Wes

APRIL 26, 2020

Addendum: YouTube brought down the videos included in this blog post because they claimed it violated their terms of use. I found that very disturbing that non-anonymous US physicians were silenced during these unprecedented times. I believe we should promote (and not silence) legitimate, respectful, critical debate.

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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Suddenly, my job as an ER physician was boring. I know there are many more invasive procedures we perform in the ER that could be considered similar, but I couldn't think of them quickly enough. Yes, the ER gets busy. I've witness it firsthand for 22 years as an ER attending physician. Eewww, gross," Emma said.

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NPR Health - Shots

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

After a car accident, Frankie Cook went to the ER to make sure she didn't have a concussion. She walked out of the hospital in the clear. Then came the bill.

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ER Hospital 57

Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

The endoplasmic reticulum (green), plasma membrane (blue), mitochondria (pink), microtubules (tan), and ER-plasma membrane contacts (magenta) are segmented from FIB-SEM datasets of a Drosophila melanogaster MBON1 neuron. This movie shows 3D renderings of these structures in high-resolution 3D electron microscopy images of fruit fly neurons.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 15, 2023

Advanced or metastatic estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer is commonly treated with drugs that block the estrogen receptor. However, estrogens that stimulate the receptor can also be effective.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Emergency rooms are clogged with people who are waiting for inpatient beds or other care and it's causing a crisis, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).

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NPR Health - Shots

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Pediatric cases of RSV and flu have sent families crowding into ERs, as health systems struggle with staff shortages. In Michigan, only 9 out of more than 130 hospitals have a pediatric ICU. Image credit: Lester Graham/Michigan Radio)

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 25, 2023

New research from scientists at the American Cancer Society (ACS) and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has found delayed care due to lack of transportation is associated with increased emergency room (ER) use and mortality risk among adults with and without cancer history.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Patients in the Emergency Room (ER) should be blood-tested for hazardous drinking rather than evaluated by questionnaires alone, according to a new study comparing alcohol use screening methods. A sizeable minority of patients attend the ER for alcohol-related reasons (12–15% in the UK).

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NPR Health

APRIL 16, 2025

Montana is investing $300 million to help those with severe mental illness from cycling through ERs, state psychiatric facilities, jails and homelessness. Advocates say they also need stable housing. Image credit: Aaron Bolton)

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StorytellERdoc

MARCH 8, 2019

Just a few days ago, I finished yet another string of four hectic shifts in the ER of our incredibly busy trauma center. and both the ER and the waiting room were still swarming with much activity. After all, those of us who work in the ER, for the most part, have warped senses of humor. "Sometimes s**t just happens."

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Logansport Memorial Hospital

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

My wife brought me to the ER where I was assessed and referred to Orthopedics. About 20 minutes later, I received a phone call saying I needed to report back to the ER to get IV antibiotics, as I would need to have surgery Friday, after my appointment.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Every day across America, hundreds of children and teens with depression, anxiety, autism and other conditions end up in their local hospital's emergency department because of a mental or behavioral health crisis.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It's a common dilemma when your child seems sick: Do you call the doctor, make a trip to urgent care or head straight to the emergency room?

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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Walking into Room 33, my next patient, who had come to the ER complaining of cough and cold symptoms, seemed just as I had expected. What can I do to help you in our ER today?" Rereading it, I found it filled with new perspective from when I originally wrote it just three short years ago. I hope you, too, find new meaning in old words.

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Physicals ER IT Patient-Centered 100

Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

More than 2.5 million agricultural workers help maintain the United States' abundant food supply. They play a vital role in the economy, but their job is hard and often dangerous.

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Louisville Lectures

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Nevertheless, an interest in cardiology began at a young age and continued to grow through work as a phlebotomist and as an ER tech - the latter of which offered me an early start to learning EKG interpretation.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 14, 2023

More should be done to help victims of suspected spiking attacks process the psychological trauma of the event by testing patients who arrive at the hospital intoxicated, say the authors of a new study titled, "Drink and injection spiking: how to approach an increase in presentations?" published in the Emergency Medicine Journal.

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NPR Health - Shots

JULY 23, 2022

In the early days of the outbreak, Kevin Kwong was among several people who spent days in search of the right diagnosis.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Residual tumors from Black patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive/HER2-negative primary breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) had a higher score of a biomarker of distant metastatic recurrence than tumors from white patients, according to data presented at the 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held December 6-10, (..)

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Indeed, researchers at the University of Bristol recently completed the 44th blood group system called Er. It may surprise you to hear, though, that there are many more blood group systems than just these two.

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StorytellERdoc

JUNE 11, 2020

A few years back, I took care of a frail elderly gentleman who, accompanied by his wife, had come to the ER with an elbow injury after tripping over a curb in front of a local restaurant. would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions."

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 14, 2023

Their most recent results reveal that inhibiting EDI3 may be a new therapeutic target in patients with therapy-resistant ER-HER2+ breast cancer.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

An extended release (“ER”) opioid in legitimate pain management generally accompanies an IR opioid, with patients taking the ER opioid on a set schedule and the IR opioid as needed. Immediate Release Opioids A prescription for immediate release (“IR”) opioids on a set schedule or for a certain length of time. Complaint ¶ 64.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The use of circulating tumor cell (CTC) count to guide the choice between chemotherapy and endocrine therapy as first-line therapy for patients with metastatic, estrogen receptor (ER)-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer provided overall survival benefit, compared with physician's choice of treatment, according to data from the STIC CTC trial presented (..)

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Center for Family Medicine

MAY 21, 2025

If something feels off, erring on the side of caution and consulting a doctor is the best course of action. Why early intervention matters While occasional GI issues are normal, persistent or severe symptoms should never be ignored. Ignoring persistent digestive symptoms can lead to complications and make treatment more challenging.

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StorytellERdoc

MARCH 1, 2019

I can't pinpoint the moment exactly, but several years ago I began to notice that many of our ER patients were presenting for treatment wearing nice fluffy fleece bottoms. Little Sally, who was brought to our ER by her parents for vomiting and diarrhea, was not the only family member wearing cartoon pajama bottoms.

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Vascular Physician

APRIL 22, 2024

When people develop chest pain and are rushed to the ER, a conventional chest X-ray may show a severely enlarged aorta, which is a well-established sign of aortic dissection.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Raspy cries and barky coughs echoed across the emergency room at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children on a recent chilly morning in North Philadelphia. Kids had just started to stream into the waiting room, yet every available bed was already filled.

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