Practicing convenience medicine in the ER

It’s easy to get frustrated in the ER. First, you’re at work. Second, most of your patients don’t want to be there. Third, many (if not most) of your patients don’t need to be there. Finally, by the time you see them, most of your patients are tired of being there.

It’s easy to become jaded when you trudge through this never-ending mire of patient after patient, and indeed ER docs …

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