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.
Trauma! Initial Assessment and Management
March 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A Q&A approach to the initial assessment and management of major trauma in the emergency department.
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…
Social Media in Medical Education
November 8, 2011 By 18 Comments
“…Just have a chat about that social media thingy, you know, ‘facebook’n’stuff’ – nothing fancy, just the basics – after all it is a lunchtime session so don’t expect more than a handful of attendees…”
VT or not VT? That is the question…
August 24, 2011 By 8 Comments
“VT or not VT? That is the question…” you muse. Then your patient Bill says “A shock, a shock, my kingdom for a shock”…
Snookered
August 23, 2011 By 8 Comments
A case-based Q&A on the assessment and management of patients presenting with suspected rectal foreign bodies.
Private Health Care in Indonesia
August 3, 2011 By 4 Comments
Sick of your patients waiting in the ED for life saving treatment as a result of interminable ICU / CCU bed-block? Worry no more…move to Indonesia
