PedEM Morsels

Ped EM Morsels Tasty Morsels of Medical Education

March 2, 2018

Making a patient feel better is empowering and rejuvenates our professional spirits. This is why we all love taking care of...

February 16, 2018

Once again the Ped EM Morsels will address a topic that accentuates the fact that children are not aliens to be...

February 9, 2018

We all know that children are a special population of humans (please don’t say “kids aren’t little adults”- it engenders fear...

January 26, 2018

In the Emergency Department, we are constantly juggling large lists of differential diagnoses. We become facile at sorting through the vast...

January 12, 2018

When I was a resident (Not that long ago people! Come on!!), I was taught by Dr. Mattu (@amalmattu) that the...

December 8, 2017

Previously, we have discussed the potential counterproductive effects of saying the phrase “It’s just a virus.” Aside from the perception that...

December 1, 2017

We have previously discussed my distrust of neonates (ALTE, BRUE) and this may be why so many of the Morsels focus...