Emergency Imaging in Tassie
Rick Abbott gives us his take on the good, the bad and the ugly of the different emergency radiology services he's encountered in Tasmania and the United States.
Category American ER Doc Walkabout
All I need to do is write a final diagnosis, right?
Rick Abbott zooms through time and space to share his personal experience of paperwork, billing and health records in emergency medicine.
Clear!!!
LITFL's 'American ER Doc Gone Walkabout' Rick Abbott tells us about his personal adventures with 'hands on' defibrillation and cardioversion... Are you ready for CPR with no interruptions?
Dollars and no sense
This week 'American ER Doc gone Walkabout' Rick Abbot looks at how many times he has to sign his name at work and whether or not his patients can buy their prescribed medications....
Consultants, HTFU
Among the consultants that we love to hate, where should we begin? Dermatology? Naah, dermatologists don't really exist, do they. Hospitalists? No, they're actually our friends. Psychiatry? Hmmmmm there's a potential.
Who’s gonna insert that cannula, place that urinary catheter, whatever?
Who’s gonna insert that cannula, place that urinary catheter, whatever?
What is that stuff that you give for a fever?
Our American ER doc gone walkabout struggles with medications, millimoles and the metric system in the emergency medicine nirvana that is Tasmania...
Why are there so many emergencies here?
American ER doc Rick Abbott goes walkabout... and ends up in Tasmania. He asks "Why are there so many emergencies here? This is an ER!"