MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'ep monthly'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:59:40 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5062250&cid=t_325791_88_f&fid=34491&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgruntdoc.com%2F2011%2F07%2Fto-admit-or-not-to-admit-that-is-the-question-whitecoats-call-room.html Gastroenterologist Michael Kirsch put up a post on his blog that was then reposted over at ACP Hospitalist asking where the threshold for admitting a patient to the hospital should be. He asserts that there should be more collaboration between medical colleagues to determine whether or not a patient needs to be hospitalized… via To Admit or Not to Admit? That is the Question. | WhiteCoat’s Call Room. Another WhiteCoat tour de force. Related posts:Dr. Perfect | WhiteCoat’s Call Room …Actually, statements like that do serve one purpose. They make... The Case of the Crazy Rabid Squirrel | WhiteCoat’s Call Room Read the rest, and wonder. Others practice risk-avoidance to the... Joint Commission – Anti-Safety in Action | WhiteCoat’s Call Room “Severe pa... GruntDoc blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5062250 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:29:32 +0100 5062250 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4245309&cid=t_325791_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Flifeinthefastlane%2FWZHV%2F%7E3%2FpelAtJdhi8Y%2F Have you checked out EP Monthly's feature: 'The Best of EMRAP'. This month's installment features pearls on subarachnoid hemorrhage. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4245309 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:15 +0100 4245309 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4074062&cid=t_325791_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fun-insurance-reform%2F2010.10.15 Who doesn’t need insurance reform? Why, the insurers like Aetna, Cigna, and BCS Insurance, that’s who! From Emergency Physicians Monthly: By threatening to raise health care premiums by 200 percent or threatening to drop coverage altogether, the companies got the Department of Health and Human Services to cave. Now the companies have our government’s blessing to continue offering “insurance” to their employees that is capped at a few thousand dollars per year instead of the $750,000 required in the health care law. Perhaps GruntDoc said it best: “I am not an Obamacare fan, and would like it repealed, with smaller, more focused Bipartisan fixes, but if the government is going to pass something then roll over this easily to special interests… it’s already worse th... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4074062 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:00:00 +0100 4074062 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4055715&cid=t_325791_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Femergency-medicine-who-should-set-the-standard-of-care%2F2010.10.11 According to the Standard of Care Project at EP Monthly: The Power of Agreement We can stop baseless malpractice suits before they get started. How? By having a majority of practicing emergency physicians go on record as to the baseline “standard of care,” beneath which is negligence. This has been rolling for a while, and I’ve been late to blog it. That does not in any way mean I’m not 100 percent FOR it. The idea is beautifully simple: The standard of care in emergency medicine (EM) should be set by practicing EM physicians, not case-by case in courts before lay juries with battling experts. (AAEM had the “remarkable testimony” series as a retrospective attempt to shame “experts” who gave, well, remarkable statements under oath, which to date has two ca... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4055715 Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:00:31 +0100 4055715 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4040567&cid=t_325791_88_f&fid=34491&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgruntdoc.com%2F2010%2F10%2Fstandard-of-care-project-at-ep-monthly.html The Power of Agreement We can stop baseless malpractice suits before they get started. How? By having a majority of practicing emergency physicians go on record as to the baseline “standard of care,” beneath which is negligence. via Standard of Care Project at EPMonthly. This has been rolling for a while, and I’ve been late to blog it.  That does not, in any way mean I’m not 100% FOR it. The idea is beautifully simple: the Standard of Care in Emergency Medicine should be set by practicing EM physicians, not case-by case in courts before lay juries with battling experts.  (AAEM had the ‘remarkable testimony’ series as a retrospective attempt to shame ‘experts’ who gave, well, remarkable statements under oath, which to date has two cases in it). This... GruntDoc blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4040567 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:44:31 +0100 4040567 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3212331&cid=t_325791_88_f&fid=34491&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgruntdoc.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fepmonthly-on-a-roll.html Several good articles in this Months’ Emergency Physicians’ Monthly (sadly, I read the dead-tree version first…it was in my reading room…) My favorites for now: Greg Henry on closing the ALS drug box, and Ronald Hellstern on Why Democratic Groups Fail. Fun reading, well done.    EPMonthly has really taken off recently.  Enjoyable reading.   Oh, WhiteCoat’s Call Room is not to be missed, either… Related posts:Paging Dr. Flea The Trial Of A WhiteCoat – Part 1 « WhiteCoat’s... Flu and Pooh « WhiteCoat’s Call Room Flu and Pooh « WhiteCoat’s Call Room Heh. ... Anybody Wanna Buy A Bridge? « WhiteCoat’s Call Room Anybody Wanna Buy A Bridge? « WhiteCoat’s Call Room What... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. (S... GruntDoc blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3212331 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:51:07 +0100 3212331