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Summer 2020: FSU at Sarasota Memorial
Greetings from Sarasota! We are extremely excited to welcome our second class to the FSU family. They had orientation during the last week of June and started in July with all of their certifications. We have also had the privilege of welcoming another new member to...
Summer 2020: Brandon Regional Hospital
What a time to be in emergency medicine! Our program, like many others, has been adjusting daily with the evolving pandemic. I am proud to say that our residents have shown great leadership, a strong work ethic, and a true sense of responsibility as we all face this...
Summer 2020: USF Health
Greeting from Tampa and the USF Emergency Medicine Residency! The last few months have been quite busy and exciting for our residency program. Our new interns have started their orientation month and are awesome. We are excited to see how much they will grow as...
Summer 2020: Musings: Leadership in Crisis
My wife and I (a retired ER nurse and ER physician, respectively), were to chair a Task Force at our church to guide a safe “reopening” of the use of the sanctuary. As luck would have it, our church owns a beautiful and rustic 18-acre parcel of land within a mile of...
Kratom Part II: Updates for the ED Provider on a Substance Skyrocketing in Use
A patient presents to your ED with a chief complaint of non-stop vomiting over the last day. She says she was sore from working in the yard all day and tried a pain reliever her relative swears by. Is this liver failure from acetaminophen overdose? Cyclic vomiting...
Management of Hydroxychloroquine & Chloroquine Toxicity
What is hydroxychloroquine? Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a part of the 4-aminoquinolones family. The drug is structurally related to chloroquine (CQ), which has historically been utilized for malaria prophylaxis. HCQ is similar to CQ in therapeutic, pharmacokinetic,...
Summer 2020: UCF/HCA North Florida Regional
A lot has been happening at North Florida! We celebrated the graduation of our inaugural class in May. The gentlemen of the Class of 2020 have all graduated and moved off to their next chapters! Several of our seniors headed out west: Dr. Zaza Atenalov is now an...
Summer 2020: UF Jacksonville
Congratulations to our graduating third-years! We are grateful for the leadership you’ve exhibited over the years, and we look forward to celebrating all of your accomplishments moving forward. Good luck to all in your future endeavors. As we say goodbye to our...
Summer 2020: UF Gainesville
After a hard-worked past few months through the COVID-19 pandemic, the UF Emergency Medicine residency program is taking time to focus on this year’s achievements and looking forward to a new year. Summer brings an end to our senior residents’ time with us. In June,...
Summer 2020: Orange Park Medical Center
We recently conducted a quality project using Six Sigma techniques that our residents learned as part of their program to improve their ED. The goal was to decrease the time patients wait in ER rooms after their physician had discharged them, due to patients waiting...
