EPM Talk

EPM Executive Editor Mark Plaster chats with Mike Silverman, EPM board member and Director’s Corner author, continue their discussion of navigating ER politics specifically the dangers of physicians losing their licenses over spreading disinformation. 

EPM’s legal expert and board member, Bill Sullivan, joins Mark Plaster and JD Landon to discuss his latest lawsuit with the Illinois to question its sanctions on Ivermectin and unprofessional conduct charges that in some cases are costing physicians their licenses.

Meet our newest EPM contributor, Jondavid Landon, MD., aka JD. Ultrasound trained, JD can help even an old dog like me learn some new tricks. Whatever your age or training, I suspect you can learn something.

What does a telecommunication company have to do with health and wellness? Mark Plaster chats with Dr. Anna Fitch Courie of FirstNet® to discuss how FirstNet deploys mobile communications to ensure connectivity for emergency response personnel in scenarios like earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes, as well as how the wireless network has set up a health and wellness program of American first responders and their families.

To learn more about how FirstNet supports healthcare professionals, visit FirstNet.com/healthcare, and download their new ebook: Connecting Healthcare When and Where it Matters Most.

Coming from Ireland, you can’t miss this great conversation with Bill Green, the inventor of the T-Ring and other helps to make laceration repairs as smooth, quick and painless (for you and the patient) as possible.

EPM Executive Editor Mark Plaster chats with Mike Silverman, EPM board member and Director's Corner author, about the need for exemplary communication as the director and the art of navigating ER politics.

Mark chats with Mark Langdorf and Andrew Phillips of the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine of the journal’s stance on the increasingly controversial discussion on resident physician training.

Langdorf and Phillips explain the key differences of the training EM resident graduates receive compared to others in the medical field while some groups and hospitals interchangeably refer to both as providers.

It’s almost time for your summertime staffing shortage.   Don’t miss my conversation with Mike Silverman of Director’s Corner fame on how to be ready for short staffing situations.

Don’t miss this discussion of non-convulsive status epileptics with Laleh Gharahbaghian, MD.  

It will open your eyes to a problem I suspect many, if not most EPs, are currently missing.  

It is a point of care test that needs to be in every, yes EVERY emergency department.

Can two doctors from different sides of the political spectrum have a civil discussion?  

Join Mike Silverman and Mark Plaster as they discuss, laugh, and cajole their way through an interesting exchange on a variety of topics important to emergency physicians.