This month’s post goes out to the new doctors in the department welcome! Congratulations! You made it graduating from medical school and matching into one of the best emergency medicine residency programs in the country. Here are just a…
A long time ago in a small city named Kalamazoo, I received a Bachelor of the Arts in Music. During my time in music school, constant feedback and criticism from my colleagues and professors was a big part of the…
Have you ever had a medical student give you a presentation on chest pain that involved various aspects of the patients hobby of collecting Star Trek memorabilia? Have you received way too much information about the patients pet cat for…
Is the Physical Exam a relic of the past because our tools are relics of a prior era in medicine? A few months ago I wrote a piece about the physical exam and the importance of actually doing a thorough…
I always knew about podcasts, but felt that I was not an auditory learner and therefore was reluctant to use it. I would laugh at the jokes, and feel good listening to it. But I didn’t listen to it on…
I recently presented a vertiginous patient to my attending, after already having the discharge instructions printed and signed. Of course the attending comes back to me and states emphatically that the patient needs to be ruled out for a stroke! …
If you have as much of a white cloud in CCT as I do.. you often wonder how to possible entertain all the medical students whom seem to flock towards CCT? In fact, I have had to often juggle three…
See One, Do One, TEACH ONE Welcome to the new blog titled See One, Do One, TEACH ONE with obvious emphasis on TEACH ONE! At Kings County Emergency Medicine residency, we are taught to believe in the power of the…