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Editorial , Editor's Forum

Letter from the Editor

4/4/2016 Abby Cosgrove, MD
Letter from the Editor I had no intention of watching the entire first season of Fuller House in one day. Instead, I had a mile-long to-do list that should have been completed before my next shift: a
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Editorial

Resident Duty Hours

4/4/2016 Stephen Wolf, MD, FACEP , Hans House, MD, FACEP , Alison Smith, MD, MPH
Resident Duty Hours Residency work hour restrictions are again at the forefront of discussion among emergency medicine leaders. It has been 5 years since the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medica
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Editor's Forum , Editorial , Personal

Letter from the Editor

1/30/2016 Abby Cosgrove, MD
Letter from the Editor If you had asked my elementary school self what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said an astronaut. I wore space suits made of painter’s coveralls, built a paper-mâc
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Editor's Forum , Advancement of EM , Editorial

Looking at the Past, Stepping into the Future

12/3/2015 Abby Cosgrove, MD
Looking at the Past, Stepping into the Future The St. Louis International Film Festival recently featured EMRA's Emmy Award-winning documentary 24/7/365: The Evolution of Emergency Medicine. In this
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Editorial

The Focus: Mastering the Art of Multitasking

12/2/2015 Samuel Zidovetzki, MD
The Focus: Mastering the Art of Multitasking “Doctor, come quick!” The anxious words pierce my reverie as I sit at my desk, attempting to chip away at the stack of unfinished charts piling up from t
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Editorial

Social Emergency Medicine: It's What We Do

10/8/2015 Charles Justin Hall, DO
Social Emergency Medicine: It's What We Do “One thing I know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.” — Albert Schweitzer The role of
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Editor's Forum

Our Call to Duty

10/4/2015 Nathaniel Mann, MD
Our Call to Duty As a young man I was a Boy Scout – khaki shirt, shoulder sash, merit badges, and all. Like all of the other boys in my troop, I used to stand at attention and recite the Scout oath a
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Editorial , Practice Environments

Describing Scribes: Improving Efficiency and Satisfaction in the ED

8/4/2015 Marc Martel, MD
Describing Scribes: Improving Efficiency and Satisfaction in the ED Editor's Note: EM Resident is launching this new series, “What I Wish I Knew,” to help residents and medical students benefit from
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Editorial , Practice Environments

The July Effect: Is the Emergency Department Safe?

8/4/2015 Joshua Davis, MD , Benjamin Wurst
The July Effect: Is the Emergency Department Safe? Media outlets have been stepping up their game with increasingly captivating headlines. When we see titles like “Viagra Con Man Hit with a Stiff Sen
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Editor's Forum , Editorial , Wellness

The Level One Commitment

8/1/2015 Nathaniel Mann, MD
The Level One Commitment I'm writing this article inside a tent. Lying on my thinning mattress pad, I can occasionally feel a refreshingly cool and crisp mountain breeze seep in through my partially