The Emergency Crossroad
Words and thoughts on the state of emergency medicine in the US
Category: Health & Industry
A Window to Nowhere
More information won’t solve healthcare costs
The Buying Game
When buying a book becomes a political action…
The Noise of Quiet Quitting
Meditation on the new (or old) phenomenon ‘quiet quitting’
A Different Kind of Pipeline
A meditation on the failure of emergency medicine when faced with psychiatric crisis
Fear and Loathing in the Pandemic
A meditation on how the pandemic has challenged trust and stoked all manner of fears
Just Because You Can…
It can be difficult reading articles that highlight shortcomings and failures within systems you, on the whole, endorse and support. This difficulty presented upon reading Harold Braswell’s editorial in The Washington Post commenting on alleged abuses suffered by disabled Canadian citizens. As someone with family connections to Canada and as a proponent of universal healthcare […]
One More Step Towards the Cliff
We weren’t prepared. We’re still not prepared.
The COVID Resurgence (or Revenge of the Sick)
As the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic raged across the country over the summer of 2020, there was no shortage of public health officials, epidemiologists, medical practitioners and statisticians warning that a second wave of the virus could be expected. They implored the public to minimize social gatherings, continue wearing masks when around people and prepare for the […]
Social [media] distancing
Everywhere these days you hear the phrase “social distancing”, a phrase I feel didn’t exist until the last few months. In essence, what this means is that we (i.e. society) must maintain a high degree of space or outright isolation (i.e. distancing) from each other in an effort to slow the spread of the SARS-COV-2 […]
Antidote Notes 