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…
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.
Clear!!!
December 27, 2011 by 5 Comments
LITFL’s ‘American ER Doc Gone Walkabout’ Rick Abbott tells us about his personal adventures with ‘hands on’ defibrillation and cardioversion… Are you ready for CPR with no interruptions?
Dollars and no sense
December 20, 2011 by 6 Comments
This week ‘American ER Doc gone Walkabout’ Rick Abbot looks at how many times he has to sign his name at work and whether or not his patients can buy their prescribed medications….
Consultants, HTFU and the depressing state of US healthcare
December 14, 2011 by 3 Comments
More differences and similarities between emergency medicine in Tazzie and the US: consults, dysrhythmias, broken bones, HTFU and the depressing state of US healthcare…
Who’s gonna insert that cannula, place that urinary catheter, whatever?
December 7, 2011 by 10 Comments
Our American ER doc gone walk looks at how Tassie differs from the US in terms of the roles of docs, nurses, techs and physician assistants.
What is that stuff that you give for a fever?
November 22, 2011 by 8 Comments
Our American ER doc gone walkabout struggles with medications, millimoles and the metric system in the emergency medicine nirvana that is Tasmania…
Why are there so many emergencies here? This is an ER!
November 15, 2011 by 19 Comments
American ER doc Rick Abbott goes walkabout… and ends up in Tasmania. He asks “Why are there so many emergencies here? This is an ER!”
