A 21-month-old male presented to the emergency department with right upper extremity pain after a fall from a chair. He was initially discharged after unrevealing x-rays of the right upper extremity. However, after being discharged, the patient and his mother were called back in to the emergency department after an attending pediatric radiologist overread the xrays and identified a posterior fat pad…
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While opiates have been utilized for thousands of years, Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) has been increasing drastically since the turn of the 21st century…
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Months of ICU rotations are required for United States (US) Emergency Medicine (EM) residents. As EM residents, we can feel out of place or less efficient than we are used to in this environment since we work primarily in a very different model and with a very different electronic medical record (EMR) setup…
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In college, I minored in film because I love movies so much. One of my most influential classes was called “Sight, Sound, and Motion”. This class delved into physics on cinema and the way filmmakers manipulate each of these elements to evoke emotions and tell stories…
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