Archive for May, 2008

Australian Emergency Departments in crisis due to access block

A leading Australian Emergency Physician in Queensland has written 2 open letters which were printed anonymously in Brisbane’s Courier Mail newspaper in May 2008.

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This entry was posted by Mandar Marathe on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 at 9:32 pm and is filed under process. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Searching for hidden agendas when patients with chronic disease present to the Emergency Department

GruntDoc’s post about dealing with patients presenting to the ED with their chronic illnesses highlights the challenges Emergency Physicians face when caring for patients with chronic illnesses. Such attendances can be difficult because the Emergency Physician is unable to offer an instant cure where other specialists have previously failed.

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This entry was posted by Mandar Marathe on Thursday, May 8th, 2008 at 12:07 pm and is filed under Consultation skills. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Causes of hypoglycaemia in patients taking insulin

Broadly, there are 3 causes of hypoglycaemia in diabetic patients who take insulin.

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This entry was posted by Mandar Marathe on Thursday, May 8th, 2008 at 3:40 am and is filed under Endocrine. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Welcome to EMEDology.com!

This is a new blog in the field of Emergency Medicine.

Hopefully there will soon be some interesting content here, but in the meantime why not have a look at About EMEDology.com for some information about this site.

This entry was posted by Mandar Marathe on Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 at 4:26 pm and is filed under Non clinical. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. 0 comments