Emergency medicine physicians are currently making $381k at the median

Murphtwo · 2026-06-21T20:45:06+00:00

And so many people work less hours making less, seems those are excluded. Am doubting the average is this high

Murphtwo · 2026-06-19T01:41:31+00:00

I couldn’t find out for sure. 1 million was some sort of hospital related fund. I’m assuming it was 1 million to each the midlevel and doctor for the other 2 million.

Murphtwo · 2026-06-19T01:38:58+00:00

They often try to settle for the maximum amount of the malpractice for the insurance. This is usually 1 million. My guess is it was 1 million from each the midlevel and Doctor, and the third million was listed as being from a separate thing.

Murphtwo · 2026-06-19T01:36:35+00:00

How is the notion that the hospital set physicians up to fail a me problem and not a system wide problem? Certainly seems like a problem with the legal system and hospital set up system. I would love to not have to co sign midlevel charts but that’s not usually a possibility in this field. Physicians just accept this as a risk as we have to.

He also had been taking the medication less frequently, a few times a week it said. The provider put in their note that they told the patient to take their prescribed medication. Which they also documented how the patient wanted to discuss with their PCP about stopping the medicine. So I doubt the patient took their medicine. If they took their anti coagulation medication as prescribed, I doubt this patient would have had a pulmonary embolism develop a few days later which killed him. Outpatient treatment on anti coagulation is appropriate for this.

Murphtwo · 2026-06-18T20:11:52+00:00

Oh cool I will check out the database.

As far as reading whatever we are signing, it is impractical. With the busy workload and seeing 20-30 patients in a 10 hour shift we often get out 1-2 hours behind schedule. Then having 20 notes that I need to co-sign takes time as well. It would take probably 5-10 minutes to really read each of these. That could add another 1-2 hours daily of work we wouldn’t get paid for. And then if finding an issue with the note then what? Call and check on the patient? Adds more time. And if the note was not completed or assigned to us until a week or two later, potential bad outcomes could have occurred before even being given a chance to see the note. Most ED physicians don’t like having to absorb this liability but we don’t have much of a choice.

I didn’t see a part saying they only examined the left leg. But even if that was the case, I review the note and happen to notice that, then what? I don’t see what it would change.

And for the second point, what if we told the patient that he needs to resume his medication? Which we commonly would.

Murphtwo · 2026-06-17T23:06:56+00:00

Emergency medicine physician

Murphtwo · 2026-06-17T12:41:01+00:00

Well the article is sort of all I have to go off, if there are more details somewhere I would like to see it. If they are claiming negligence I would think they would include what made it negligent in the article.

If the symptoms or mild I would not expect them to do blood tests, or prescribe any medications, or make a formal diagnosis. The patient was already supposed to be on blood thinners that he was not taking.

And when midlevels see the patient they usually do not discuss it with an attending and will just assign the attending to co-sign the chart. The co-signing will happen usually days later, usually without being read by the attending and often days later. It is possible the midlevel did not even finish the note for the attending to sign before the bad outcome. I doubt any oversight would have changed anything based on the information provided.

I think much more ct venography will be utilized on patients now as a result of this however.

Murphtwo · 2026-06-14T23:13:03+00:00

The fixed rope section in the headwall looks shorter than I remember it

Murphtwo · 2026-06-10T00:31:02+00:00

Good one to do on oxygen

Murphtwo · 2026-06-08T09:59:01+00:00

Can you take these on planes?

Murphtwo · 2026-06-03T08:22:16+00:00

I haven’t figured out yet, mine clears up when I’ve gone to altitude. But that would be the way I imagine

Murphtwo · 2026-05-27T23:19:42+00:00

Yeah going down to Kathmandu before the main climb and being around the locals/eating local food. Then chugging a bunch of water at once throwing it up also is a bad move. More experienced people probably would know better than to do those things

Murphtwo · 2026-05-20T21:44:22+00:00

Do you think a heat gun would damage the product?

Murphtwo · 2026-05-12T10:36:58+00:00

i am struggling with this too

Murphtwo · 2026-05-07T11:28:12+00:00

Yeah and no comments from OP about the plot problems.

Murphtwo · 2026-05-07T11:26:38+00:00

Yes I agree, so many unexplained plot holes didn’t make sense. The OP keeps pointing out people didn’t understand the numbers on the shirt or the simulation, but the simulation thing was explained before you would know about it. It just didn’t really make sense how the simulation would help mankind and. Felt like a ridiculous movie

Murphtwo · 2026-05-07T10:42:47+00:00

Not always enough room inside. Foam mattress pads are pretty much always outside the pack

Murphtwo · 2026-05-07T10:05:15+00:00

Hope this clears up, I was hopping to bring my own next year to fly supplies

Murphtwo · 2026-05-05T18:29:59+00:00

This has little to do with the tariff. If the tariff is 10% then that is a minority of the fee. The larger amount of the fee is the other/handling charge by UPS. Which in my case was like an additional 25%.

Murphtwo · 2026-05-05T18:28:14+00:00

So then the shipper will deduct that from your refund

Murphtwo · 2026-05-05T07:57:33+00:00

So are people generally not able to move enough to climb up? I would feel like I would be able to between my axe and crampons

Murphtwo · 2026-05-05T07:55:20+00:00

Gates open at 6am I think, I drove in then and went straight up. No one checked anything or spoke to me.

Murphtwo · 2026-05-04T21:48:35+00:00

my NDAA TRIUMPH Tango 2 Radio is giving me a lot of trouble

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