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Monthly Archives: March 2019

Things you should know about LGBTQI care

twitter.com/sezclom/status/1111055507433746433

March 28, 2019 in Other.

Preventing doctor suicides

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March 27, 2019 in Doctor's health.

What is your duty of care ?

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March 24, 2019 in Ethics, Medicolegal.

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  • First10EM Journal Club: November 2019 November 12, 2019
    We are back!  Another journal club with Dr Justin Morgenstern.  This month we have a really diverse bunch of papers that looks at CRASH-3, distraction techniques for kids in ED, making the patient experience better, wound closure and syncope workup (Spoiler: CTs ain’t that great). As always the full-text PDFs are available at the cost […]
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    Hello! We are back.  After nearly 2 months of hiking, cruising, paddling and driving all over North America I have just returned to sunny Broome and managed to do some actual work.  Apologies for the downtime and I hope you enjoyed the collaboration projects. Justin Morgenstern has sent me another batch of papers which we […]
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