Somehow, that crucial medical jargon—the code status—never made it to the oncall code
team. My patient listened to the cacophony of commands, responses, monitors, chest …

I'm awake. Had my anchor sleep, but I'm still groggy and trying to be civil to the people
around me, the ones that really care about me, my family. It's the first morning after my last …

Dr. Edwin Leap's recent article,“King of the Night,” was excellent.(EMN 2007; 29 [8]: 9.) I am
a young doctor in my mid-30s. I do work quite a few night shifts, and I love them. I like being …

It's 9 pm and the hospital is quiet. The chatter that reverberates through the hallways during
the day is gone, replaced by the hum of the first-floor kitchen dishwasher. I walk through the …

Dr. Edwin Leap's recent article,“King of the Night,” was excellent.(EMN 2007; 29 [8]: 9.) I am
a young doctor in my mid-30s. I do work quite a few night shifts, and I love them. I like being …

The Canadian Healthcare Association declined comment on the issue, so it is difficult to
determine whether there are commonalities in the responses of Canadian hospitals. But it …

My wife's name is Jan. I met her in 1983 during my sophomore year at Marshall University. I
was a bright-eyed, driven, OCD premedical student. She, on the other hand, was a genuine …

'The Daily Dynamic Discharge Approach'8 and NHS Improvement's 'SAFER patient flow
bundle', 9 from 2016 and 2018, respectively. Many of the recommendations in these reports …

Any physician, nurse, or technician can attest that the ED is not the same place at 1 am as it
is at 1 pm Yet most departments lack the data to quantify those differences.As Todd Taylor …

In the moments after my shift ends, I sit in my car with the protection of the darkness and the
companionship of the midnight moon. My mind is a slide show, but the images are neither …