Common Sense

• The Light at the End of the Tunnel

  Image Credit: Pexels Author: MohammedMoiz Qureshi, MDAAEM/RSA PresidentOriginally published: Common Sense March/April 2019 As of January 1, 2019, current second year residents in three year programs have officially completed half their residency! Just under 18 months away from completing a long and grueling journey. It’s remarkable how much you grow from a fourth year med […]
• A Life Almost Saved

  Image Credit: Common Sense Author: Nick Pettit, DO PhDOriginally published: Common Sense January/February 2019 Very few jobs, let alone, medical specialties have the potential to encounter death on a daily basis. With this comes responsibility, honor, reward, pride, but also despair, death, and failure. Politics and biases aside, as clinicians, it is engrained early in […]
• Three vs. Four and Everything in Between

  Image Credit: Pexels Author: MohammedMoiz Qureshi, MDAAEM/RSA PresidentOriginally published: Common Sense January/February 2019 As interview and rank season comes to an end and the ever-anticipated Match is just a few short months away, I thought it would be a good time to reach out to our medical students who have questions and concerns regarding the […]
• Intravenous Fluid Therapy in the Emergency Department and Critical Care Setting

  Authors:Raymond Beyda, MD; Taylor Conrad, MD; Rithvik Balakrishnan, MD; Ted Segarra, MD; Taylor M. Douglas, MD Editors: Kami Hu, MD FAAEM and Kelly Maurelus, MD FAAEM Originally published: Common SenseNovember/December 2018 Intravenous fluid (IVF) therapy is one of the most common therapies employed during the care and resuscitation of patients in the emergency, acute, and […]
• Phones in Medicine

  Image Credit: Pexels Author: MohammedMoiz Qureshi, MDAAEM/RSA President 2018-2019Originally Published: November/December Common Sense List your most intimate relationship. Most of us will list a spouse, parent, sibling, relative, or friend. Most of us however will also forget our most intimate — our beloved phones. They keep us company when we eat, they’re the last things […]
• Residency Match – In Hindsight

  Image Credit: Pexels Author: Jake Toy, DOModern Resident Blog Editor-in-Chief  Publications & Social Media Committee Chair The February 2019 rank residency list deadline is fast approaching. For some, the process of ranking their chosen emergency medicine programs in order of preference was straightforward. For others, including myself, the process of picking a program that balanced […]
• Burning Both Ends of the Candle

  Image Credit: Common Sense Author: Faith Quenzer, DOAAEM/RSA At-Large Board MemberOriginally Published: Common Sense July/August 2018 I wasn’t out of the woods yet. After the birth of my first child, my son would keep me up every two to three hours a night. This was not what I imagined life to be as a mother. […]
• Find Your Power Ballad

  Image credit: Pixabay Author: Aaron C. Tyagi, MDOriginally Published: Common Sense July/August 2018 The ED is a naturally stressful environment, where sensory overload is the norm. At any given moment, you can simultaneously be handed two stat EKGs while receiving an EMS refusal and have a consultant return a page. As a senior resident, I […]
• Update on Direct Oral Anticoagulants in the Emergency Department

  Authors: Megan Donohue MD, MPH, Erica Bates MD, Robert Brown MD, Christine Carter MD, Hannah Goldberg MD. Editors: Kami M. Hu MD FAAEM, Kelly Maurelus, MD FAAEMOriginally Published: Common Sense May/June 2018 Questions: What new information do we have regarding direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), specifically: What is the most recent safety data? Do our standard […]
• The Unfortunate Case of the Costa Rican Colles’ Fracture: An Up-Close case study of Costa Rica’s Emergency Department

  Image Credit: Pixabay Author: Kayla KingOriginally published: Common Sense May/June 2018 Picture this: you’re on a study abroad in beautiful, picturesque Costa Rica, in between your first and second year of medical school, learning about their health care system and practicing medical Spanish. You’re traveling to volcanoes, beaches, national parks, and national sloth reserves, taking […]

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