Logging new and noteworthy linkage from the endless Twitter feed, and other ephemera of the past week. But first, some thoughts from Patrick Gilbreth and Manrique Umana:
I feel Canadian. Sending people home to live out course of disease in dignified fashion. Will always feel wrong but it's right #comfortcare
— Patrick Gilbreth (@patrickgilbreth) February 15, 2013
@umanamd Even now, even when I see pt dying of natural causes at right time, when they're in ER, I feel need to intervene. It's ok to die!
— Patrick Gilbreth (@patrickgilbreth) February 16, 2013
Now, for the meat of it:
- AAEM2013 just concluded – find all the Tweets, storified, by @MBond007 here.
- Ethics, Med-Ed and Doctoring
- Do Oncologists Lie to Their Patients? Hopetimism…
- Can a novel med school curriculum improve doctor-patient communication? (Longitudinal Curriculum)
- Is there a cure for corporate crime in the drug industry? (BMJ Editorial)
- Patient respect drops when doctors diagnose with computer.
- Is Physician “Shadowing” a Shady Practice?
- Changes to ssisted suicide in Canada (15 minute interview with @PicardonHealth on recent legislation).
- Why Not to Get a Urine Drug Screen (except for altered mental status with truly no known explanation, unexplained new seizures, and if looking for cocaine):
- Academic Life in EM (Peeing into the Wind Part 1, and Part 2)
- MDAware’s take here
- And a literature review forwarded by PharmERToxGuy
- Hemostasis
- Acute Management of Bleeding in Patients on Novel Oral Anticoagulants (European Heart Journal. Subscription required, haven’t read it yet – caveat emptor).
- Blood transfusions can be harmful or deadly in some GI bleeds (commentary by PulmCCM.org on this recent NEJM article)
- Resuscitwitter
- Decoding twitter: Surveillance and Trends for Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation (Resuscitation. Subscription required).
- Advanced Illness/End of LIfe
- ePrognosis – Check it out. (thanks, Graham Walker!)
- #EMTOT
- Not quite a trick of the trade, but something to know nonetheless – Perimortem C-Section, by Simon Carley at St. Emlyn’s.
And a moment of Zen from Professor Amal Mattu, as quoted by Prof. Joe Lex:
When troponin was a lousy assay, it was a great test. Now that it's a great assay, it's a lousy test – Amal Mattu #AAEM13 #FOAMed
— Joe Lex (@JoeLex5) February 11, 2013
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