Emergency Medicine

Let's take a stroll through speciality stereotypes through history, landing squarely at the here and now.

I remember a few ‘firsts’ in my day. It can be a bit intimidating to be the first to do something in the ER. What if it goes wrong? But if it has to happen, if someone has to try a new method, it might as well be me.

Medical professionals and critics alike laud the show for its realistic portrayal of an emergency room.

A lawsuit re-enactment shows how trying to protect nurses—or please patients—can cloud judgment and put doctors at risk.

The move comes as nurses made the rare decision last month to declare the hospital too dangerous to work in, otherwise known as ‘grey listing.’

A late-night ER visit, a conflicting story and the uneasy duty to protect people on the road.

From sleepless nights to system shifts, physician call is slowly changing.

Urgences-santé was ordered by Quebec Superior Court to pay to the family of Nutin McFarland, who died even though he became ill less than a kilometre from a Montreal hospital.