An emergency physician never wants to hear those words. The next line won’t be, “He stopped by the ER today to say he’s doing well.” Instead, the inevitable bad news will ignite emotions somewhere between regret and outright terror. Sometimes the bearer of bad news won’t make the slightest effort to spare your feelings. As… Read More
Excerpt from DEAD ALREADY by Mike Krentz One person who comments on today’s blog will win a $25 BN gift card! (Dr. Zack Winston cannot fathom why his former patient, Carl Barnett, succumbed to sudden cardiac arrest. Perplexed or not, he must cover his assigned duty shifts in the ER. His boss, Dr. Dennis King,… Read More
Excerpt from DEAD ALREADY by Mike Krentz (Young Dr. Zack Winston, a US Navy flight surgeon, met his true love, aviator Noelle Robinson, while serving with a carrier air wing based in Japan. Their torrid affair culminated in a rushed marriage that enabled them to deploy together on USS Kitty Hawk, albeit in separate male… Read More
When I showed up in the ER many years ago for my first shift as an emergency physician, I didn’t consider myself a pioneer. The American Board of Medical Specialties had not yet recognized emergency medicine as a bona fide clinical discipline. In those days, physicians often referred to the ER as “The Pit.” To… Read More