A remarkably good blog post from Seth Treuger ( @MDaware on twitter).
The classic model of history, physical, testing, diagnosis & treatment does not apply to us. I think we do 3 things in emergency medicine:
- Resuscitation
- Risk stratification
- Care coordination
Resus is the fun sexy stuff that we stay up late at night having twitter arguments about. As much as I love ketamine, I can go a number of shifts without using it, and very little of what we do is resus. Most of what we do is risk stratification and care coordination.
Read it. It’s good.
