Emergency physicians routinely perform procedures and manage serious conditions without another specialist at the bedside. Here’s when a consultant is needed—and when the emergency physician is already the right specialist for the job.
"You have a blood clot... you're going home." It sounds contradictory, but hospital admission isn't based on the diagnosis alone. Emergency physicians decide whether you need something that can only be provided safely in the hospital—and medicine has changed dramatically over the past few decades.
You just heard the word “cancer” in the ER, and now you’re being sent home. Here’s why that can happen, and what it doesn’t mean.
A referral to the ER is a request for an emergency evaluation, not a preordered test. After examining you, the emergency team may recommend different imaging, or no CT at all.
Your patient portal just flagged a result in red. Before you Google it, here’s what “abnormal” actually means, and doesn’t.
