Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the October 2019 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.

Patients don’t have language barriers; the healthcare system does - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/580

Observational study to understand interpreter service use in emergency medicine: why the key may lie outside of the initial provider assessment - Editor's Choice - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/582

Framing of clinical information affects physicians’ diagnostic accuracy - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/589

Impact of the caller’s emotional state and cooperation on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest recognition and dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/595

Diurnal, weekly and seasonal variations of chest pain in patients transported by emergency medical services - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/601

Pulmonary embolism following complex trauma: UK MTC observational study - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/608

Adapting the Canadian CT head rule age criteria for mild traumatic brain injury - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/617