Rick Abbott — LITFL’s American ER Doc Gone Walkabout — relates his experience with lies, damned lies and monitors.
Postal Codes and the Gallbladder
March 5, 2013 by 4 Comments
Rick Abbott rants on postal codes and cholecystectomies: the difference between when a gall bladder should come out and when it does come out.
The News from #ACEP12 Days 2 and 3
October 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Rick Abbott is back with some insights and perspectives from #ACEP12 Days 2 and 3 – but the really big news is that he is taking Twitter by storm!
The News from #ACEP12 Day 1
October 9, 2012 by 2 Comments
Rick Abbott, with LITFL press pass in hand, reports from day 1 of #ACEP12, this year’s ACEP Scientific Meeting.
I called in sick for a shift
July 24, 2012 by 6 Comments
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.
And now for the news…
July 3, 2012 by 1 Comment
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.
Retrievals: Too sick, crazy, big, or little to stay here!
May 16, 2012 by 3 Comments
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 5 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 3 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.
