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American ER doc walkabout Rick Abbott LITFL 340

I called in sick for a shift

Rick Abbot says there are few people in the world who can make the claim: "I called in sick for what would certainly have been the single most challenging and consequential shift of my career." He, however, is now one of them.
American ER doc walkabout Rick Abbott LITFL 340

And now for the news…

Rick Abbott looks at the news in Tassie and at home in the States, which leads him to contemplate beanies for cops, the fires in Colorado, medical insurance and the joys of electronic health records.
American ER doc walkabout Rick Abbott LITFL 340

Retrievals: Too… to stay here!

Retrievals: we don't use the term in the US - moving a patient from one hospital to another, even in the rare instance that a Doctor is in attendance, is a transfer.
American ER doc walkabout Rick Abbott LITFL 340

I’m so old that…

Rick Abbott turns back the clock to the 1970s and takes a stroll through the years as he reminisces about emergency past.
American ER doc walkabout Rick Abbott LITFL 340

No emergency? No, thanks…

Uninsured in the US and diagnosed in the ER with a potentially lethal condition that isn't deemed an 'emergency', the hospital is not obliged to treat you
American ER doc walkabout Rick Abbott LITFL 340

Overcrowded, understaffed and underfunded

Rick Abbott wonders why ERs across the world seem to have a few things in common: they're almost all overcrowded, understaffed and underfunded.... What can be done about it? It's just not cricket!
American ER doc walkabout Rick Abbott LITFL 340

It costs what?

Rick Abbot, our 'American ER Doc Gone Walkabout', dives into the murky quagmire of medical costs in the United States and makes a comparison with what he experienced in Australia. At least he tries to...
American ER doc walkabout Rick Abbott LITFL 340

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.