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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...
Summer 2020: Daunting Diagnosis
A 19-year-old autistic male presents to the ED with his parents for right upper back pain. The patient is a poor historian, and the parents are unable to give any definitive history. There is no recollection of trauma, no obvious musculoskeletal injury, and no cough....
Summer 2020: Medical Student Council
The FCEP Medical Student Council has officially transitioned to a new leadership team. Please welcome our new chair: Patrick Anderson (NSU), our new advocacy chair: Chloe Gould (FIU), and our new secretary-editor: Dan Schaefer (FSU). Our outgoing team did an...
Summer 2020: EMRAF President
I just returned home from my last shift of residency. It seems like, not that long ago, I was walking into my first shift. I don’t remember the details, like how uncomfortable I felt or how little I knew, because during residency, we gain the experience and knowledge...
