WhiteCoat here again. More medical news from around the internet brought to you courtesy of ER Stories. See more at my blog if you’re interested.
I thought he was a piece of steak! Man opens door to his hotel room and is beaten with bottle of Worcestershire sauce, then “tenderized” with a fire extinguisher. Ends up […]

WhiteCoat here again. More medical news from around the internet brought to you courtesy of ER Stories. See more at my blog if you’re interested.
Should doctors who provide emergency medical care and on-call specialists to everyone receive special protections from liability?
Georgia has such a law right now - requiring […]

Its WhiteCoat again, here to (hopefully) entertain you with commentary and medical news stories from around the web. There are some additional stories on my blog if you’re interested.
Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue’s idea of imposing a “bed tax” to fund Georgia’s Medicaid gap is “going nowhere fast.” Now, without the extra funding, “the Medicaid gap […]

So, for the most part standing on the sidelines, I have watched for some time the frequent verbal jabs between Nurse K and Happy Hospitalist. She has stated that Happy has done some medically questionable things, (which I agree that he has some perplexing ideas about how to treat patients and how our health care […]

Its WhiteCoat again, back with some additional medical news stories from around the web. There are some additional stories on my blog if you’re interested.
Another emergency department closes under financial pressures. Deaconess Hospital, near the University of Cincinnati, lost $13 million in 2008. Financial numbers for 2009 were not disclosed, but it […]

Hey - its WhiteCoat from EP Monthly again with some more healthcare-related tidbits from around the web. See the rest of this week’s roundup over at my blog if you’re interested.
Should rural surgeons in Oklahoma receive tax credits to encourage them to take call in the emergency department? Personally, I’m betting that most […]

In a recent study which at its heart has noble intentions, researchers found that Morphine helps relieve the post-traumatic stress of returning gulf war veterans. The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Personally, although I imagine relieving such stress is good, potentially creating a group of people who come […]