Edwin Leap
@edwin_leap
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I'm an emergency medicine physician and columnist living, working and writing in Appalachia.
Joined April 2022
RT @EMNews: Imagine someone who’s equal parts physician, telephone operator, data entry clerk, car salesman, and hostage negotiator. That’…
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Flipping the Script on the Inaugural Sermon. Lots of people deserve mercy, right?
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@armyemdoc I haven't given bicarb in years, but still do calcium. Thanks for making me rethink it. I always give albuterol but I see many folks who don't. Seems easy and low risk. Great information!
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RT @armyemdoc: Jessen et al. published a systematic review with meta-analysis last month assessing pharmacological interventions for acute…
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Be careful out in this weather! Thoughts from an Appalachian ER doc.
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RT @EMNews: Imagine someone who’s equal parts physician, telephone operator, data entry clerk, car salesman, and hostage negotiator. That’…
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RT @EMNews: Patients treated in ED waiting rooms are charged facility fees for something they don’t get—access to the facility—and that’s a…
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Here are some reasons doctors and others in healthcare are giving up.
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RT @EMNews: Patients treated in ED waiting rooms are charged facility fees for something they don’t get—access to the facility—and that’s a…
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@samyr_q I'm a physician. When my adult sons were pre-teens we took up blacksmithing as a hobby. It was remarkably healing because it was a completely different way of thinking. Now I understand why I loved it so much. I miss it and hope to get back to it someday. Thanks!
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RT @samyr_q: Everyone thinks the cure for burnout is working less. But this is a lie. Here’s what your brain really needs to recharge (sc…
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RT @TheSGEM: We have an emergency department compartment syndrome (IYKYK). It's not a front door (patients using the ED inappropriately)…
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@Rick_Pescatore This reminds me of the problem with leadership, where physician leaders/execs so often stop seeing patients and forget the real-world problems they are trying to solve from 10,000 feet.
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RT @wylfcen: In Old English, a leader was called a lādþēo or ‘leading servant’. Centuries before the Enlightenment, Anglo-Saxons had the id…
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RT @annamlulis: This is Bevelyn Beatty Williams. She’s a wife and mother. She’s going to federal prison for 3 years today for protecting…
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RT @annamlulis: "The Biden-Harris Administration made me a single father.” Husband of Bevelyn Williams condemning the weaponization of ou…
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RT @annamlulis: "I am a man. See me as a human being—not a birth defect, not a syndrome. I don’t need to be eradicated." Frank Stephens pl…
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