Up to 11% of bites infected by Pasteurella🐈 have an associated bacteremia carrying a 30% mortality. - ROSEN’s 10th Ed. #TILEM

Any factor resulting in chronic stasis of urine increases the risk of developing upper tract transitional cell carcinoma - Emergency Radiology COFFEE Case Book #TILEM

Sad but true 😔

A stent costs ≈ $34,346 The cardiologist performing it gets paid ≈ $674 via Srihari S. Naidu, MD’s recent post. The remaining ‼️$33,672 ‼️ that doesn’t go to the physician is where the ire should be directed, not to the physician - proceduralist or not.

This is fantastic news from Indiana!! As an EM doc, I am so happy and would like to personally thank Mercy Hylton, MD, who spearheaded this action in 2021 when she wrote it as a resolution and it was passed by the House of Delegates of the Indiana State Medical Association.

An algorithm elevates the care of a novice but degrades the care of an expert.

When your husband is heme/onc and you are Emergency Medicine.

It’s never a good omen to follow the organ recovery vehicle to work. #emergencymedicine

I went from a place seeing 4.5 GSW a day to a place where I’m seeing a drowning victim every shift and lemme tell you, I prefer the GSW 😔

You know you live in Texas when patients start leaving the ER AMA because you dont have Dr. Pepper #GodBlessTexas

Hey FIGS bring back the Livingston scrub pant so I can buy scrubs in fun colors again 💗

“There is a 7-10% increased risk of breast cancer for every 10g alcohol/day (1drink/day) consumed by an adult woman” - Oncologic Emergency Medicine, principles & practice. #TILEM

Mavericks fans, this Luka Doncic take was for you: “Shocked, disgusted, irate, completely distraught, utterly confused... How could the Mavericks do this.” 🤬🤬

CT doubles the heme malignancy risk within 8yrs in pediatric appendicitis workup. #TILEM

“Measles is the most highly infectious pathogen known to medicine. It’s R0 is 12-18, meaning each patient infects an average of 12-18 other people.” -𝙟𝙤𝙨𝙝 𝙛𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙖𝙨 💊 IBCC. #TILEM

Rural hospitals aren’t a relic of the past—they’re a lifeline. They’re the only thing standing between life and death for millions of Americans. You can’t “disrupt” or “innovate” your way out of needing boots-on-the-ground medicine.

There are more fines for animal abuse than abuse against healthcare workers. #burnout

The Reason Our Profession Still Has a Soul. Yesterday’s post struck a nerve. So many healthcare professionals reached out—not with solutions, but with stories. Stories of 3 AM wake-ups. Of patients who linger in their thoughts. Of the burden that comes with caring deeply and

Had a scary pediatric peri-arrest recently. Upon reviewing pediatric resuscitation I learned “upon review within a busy pediatric ED, less than half of emergency physicians had completed any critical care procedures in the preceding year.” -Rosen’s Emergency Medicine.