How emergency medicine decision making works under pressure
Ask most physicians outside emergency medicine how they’d handle a patient presenting with three possible diagnoses, incomplete labs, and a deteriorating vital sign trend, and you’ll usually get a version of “I’d want more information first.” Ask an ER physician the same question, and you’ll get an action plan within seconds. That gap isn’t intelligence. It’s training. And I think it’s worth naming exactly what that training builds, because most …
How emergency medicine decision making works under pressure
