Article
- Author:
- Neal Flomenbaum, MD
Publish date: May 1, 2010
EM's editor-in-chief discusses requests for withdrawal of care in the emergency department.
Article
- Author:
- Neal Flomenbaum, MD
Publish date: April 1, 2010
On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as the Health Care Reform Act of...
Article
- Author:
- Neal Flomenbaum, MD
Publish date: March 1, 2010
There have been worse winters in our country’s history than the one just passed, but the lingering aftermath of the 2008-2009 economic reces...
Article
- Author:
- Neal Flomenbaum, MD
Publish date: February 1, 2010
On Tuesday, January 19, 2010, Dr. Keyhan (Kay) Farian died at the age of 80, after being struck by an SUV in front of her home in Nyack, New York....
Article
- Author:
- Neal Flomenbaum, MD
Publish date: January 1, 2010
A recent holiday gift of a robe with a tag reading “one size fits most” (as opposed to all) made me wonder why it took so long for the...
Article
- Author:
- Neal Flomenbaum, MD
Publish date: December 1, 2009
The year drawing to a close has been an eventful one for health care in the United States and for emergency medicine. With the continuing financia...
Article
- Author:
- Neal Flomenbaum, MD
Publish date: November 1, 2009
Many years ago, while seeing patients in a hospital urgent care center, I overheard a sessional physician tell a middle-aged man: "You probably ha...
Article
- Author:
- Neal Flomenbaum, MD
Publish date: October 1, 2009
On days when our department administrator reminds me that I need to once again take the hospital online course on procedural sedation or that my A...
Article
- Author:
- Neal Flomenbaum, MD
Publish date: September 1, 2009
How will health care reform affect the emergency department and its physicians? EM's editor-in-chief takes a closer look.
Article
- Author:
- Neal Flomenbaum, MD
Publish date: August 1, 2009
In early June I spent several days in Canada as visiting professor of emergency medicine for the University of Toronto's affiliated residencies.
Article
- Author:
- Neal Flomenbaum, MD
Publish date: July 1, 2009
Sheldon Jacobson, MD, Emergency Medicine's longest-serving board member, editor of this journal's "Errors in Emergency Practice" column since 1978...
Article
- Author:
- Neal Flomenbaum, MD
Publish date: June 1, 2009
The 2006 Institute of Medicine report Emergency Medical Services at the Crossoads portrayed a nationwide prehospital care system lacking not only ...
Article
- Author:
- Neal Flomenbaum, MD
Publish date: May 1, 2009
Data from the CDC indicate that about 10% of the emergency departments in this country have closed since 1995.
Article
- Author:
- Neal Flomenbaum, MD
Publish date: March 1, 2009
March is the month when graduating medical students find out where they will spend the next few years learning how to be physicians and surgeons, ...
Article
- Author:
- Neal Flomenbaum, MD
Publish date: February 1, 2009
As I started to write this editorial about the 40th anniversary of Emergency Medicine, I was alerted to the crash landing of a fully-fue...
