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“Gigi”: An E.R. doc’s warning to his residents

Read this senior E.R. doc's warning to his medical residents, based on the role model of his favourite EKG tech: "You can make this 'a job', going through the motions of what is expected of you, or you...

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Misdiagnosis: the perils of “unwarranted certainty”

Dr. Jerome Groopman, in his must-read book called "How Doctors Think", writes: "Physicians, like everyone else, display certain psychological characteristics when they act in the face of uncertainty....

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When your “significant EKG changes” are missed

When your heart attack gets missed: "Twelve per cent of patients studied had a high-risk EKG abnormality that was NOT detected by the Emergency Department physician."

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Were your 12-lead ECG electrodes placed where they should be?

Several hundred thousand out of over 40 million electrocardiograms recorded every year in the U.S. have inaccurately-placed ECG electrodes.

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