Emergency Medicine

Most specialists have more business than they can handle—but what if you did need to market your practice?

One of the 19 projects in the works is a national network of existing emergency departments and primary-care clinics, called Prepared.

Certain labels given to patients who present to ERs, often without acute issues to address, can lead to a ‘downgrading’ of care.

Paramedics increasing their scope and working in new patient care models means there is now a higher risk of medication errors, ISMP Canada says.

The day people stop asking this question is the day we have fixed the primary care crisis.

Coworkers often questioned Heather Pressdee’s conduct and said she frequently showed disdain for her patients and made derogatory comments about them

‘Of course, we get all these patients, where the GP has completely missed all those symptoms,’ I heard a specialist say. Needless to say, I was fuming.

Fractures sharply increase mortality risks in older patients—and once they have one, the risk of a second fracture soon after also rises.