“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...
View ArticleMisdiagnosis: 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....
View ArticleWhen 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."
View ArticleWere 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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