Rick Abbott shares his always unique thoughts on retrievals, aka transfers in the big country to the North-East. As always, there’s plenty of food for thought.
I’m so old that…
May 2, 2012 By 4 Comments
Rick Abbott turns back the clock to the 1970s and takes a stroll through the years as he reminisces about emergency past.
Namaste! No overcrowding here…
April 10, 2012 By 2 Comments
Rick Abbott recalls his time working as a doc in the Annapurna region of Nepal – a place where waiting room overcrowding didn’t exist. In fact, waiting rooms didn’t exist…
No emergency? No, thanks…
April 4, 2012 By 3 Comments
Rick Abbott bemoans the treatment of the uninsured in the American health system. If you’re uninsured and you’re diagnosed in the ER with a potentially lethal condition that isn’t deemed an ‘emergency’, then the hospital is not obliged to treat you… Madness, eh.
Overcrowded, understaffed and underfunded… It’s just not cricket
March 16, 2012 By 6 Comments
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!
How much is that doggie in the ICU?
February 22, 2012 By 11 Comments
Rick Abbott has seriously gone walkabout this time… He’s crossed the species barrier to see what emergency physicians can learn from our veterinary colleagues.
It costs what?
February 8, 2012 By 20 Comments
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…
The Registrar sits at the desk registering patients. Right?
January 25, 2012 By 4 Comments
Rick Abbot provides the ‘American ER Doc Gone Walkabout’ perspective on emergency medicine training in Australia and the United States. He also figures out the difference between a resident and a registrar…
Emergency Imaging in Tassie
January 12, 2012 By 1 Comment
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.
All I need to do is write a final diagnosis, right?
January 4, 2012 By 1 Comment
Rick Abbott zooms through time and space to share his personal experience of paperwork, billing and health records in emergency medicine.
