Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
Emergency Medicine education blog
Yay…it’s Friday. Time to challenge that cerebral cortex and put on those ‘mental’ dancing shoes as we trip the light fantastic of medical trivia, and lift the latch on the cage of the tiger of tease…so fasten your brastraps in anticipation of the Funtabulously, Frivolous Friday Five…
Times are changing, but in some cases not quickly enough. I reproduce a comment from my dear friend Francesca in evidence. Are doctors beyond reproach? Can we admonish patients for not playing by the rules…when we do not play by them ourselves?
Management of the elderly trauma patient poses some of the biggest clinical challenges we face in the emergency department. With age comes a host of complex management issues unknown in the young and previously healthy. If only elderly patients could point out the pitfalls to us – here is what they would say…
