If anyone is interested in some end-of-year CME in Los Angeles please check out the Cedars-Sinai 5th Annual Emergency Medicine Symposium December 7th.  There are some excellent physicians lecturing.  Don’t worry, you won’t have to listen to any of my hot air.
For more information please contact Barbara Stokes: stokes@cshs.org or (310)423-2935

ER Nurses Week was October 7th-13th.  If you forgot to show your appreciation it’s not too late for belated gifts.  Order medical pocketbooks as gifts. Until October 19th, for every 4 books you order we’ll throw in a 5th book free! That’s 20% off.  Don’t people appreciate a belated gift almost as much […]

Instead of a case this month I have a number of questions regarding odd medical observations.  Interstingly most have something to do with the eye.  Please share your own body oddities with your colleagues.  Just submit a “comment” below or at the end of the answer page.  For the answer page, click the link below.

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Are you a PA?  Well then, from all of us at ERPocketbooks.com, happy PA week and keep up the good work!
Are you an MD or RN?  Do you work with PA’s in your ED?  Remember that praise beats criticism hands down, so be sure to let them know what a good job they are doing […]

ERPocketBooks.com offers Secret Ingredients of the Ultimate ER by John Frey, MDWould you be curious about what is going on in an ER that has Press Ganey scores in the 97th percentile and a waiting list of nurses to select from? Challenges arise in the operation of ER’s every day and are met with varying […]

A 73 year old man is brought to the ED by his neighbor after a witnessed trip &  fall over a hose in his back yard. It was a ground level fall and he hit the right side of his head against a knee-high brick wall in the garden. There was no loss of consciousness […]