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January 14th Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA My responsibility at the hospital gets split between administrative time as the ...

First off, we are diagnosing a lot of COVID in the emergency department. Patients classified as being symptomatic are testing at a 64% positivity ...

Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA—The Holiday Edition--a day early on Thursday From my first post on March 13, 2020—“Go to the ER if ...

Friday Night Update from the ER in Arlington, VA—The Holiday Edition--a day early on Thursday That didn’t take long. The Omicron variant went for ...

Consistent with the rest of the country and the reports you’re seeing elsewhere, we are seeing an increasing number of COVID patients present to the ...

This is the longest update I’ve written in while. Prepare for a second drink or read it in two parts (or just skip it). There’s a lot going on this ...

I was talking to a physician friend who works at a local university. He was telling me about the massive uptick in cases they had seen on campus, even ...

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. If you saw extended family and friends, I hope you did it safely—vaccinated, people stayed home if they were ...

Thanksgiving is next week. I love Thanksgiving. Food, football, and family. I’ll be spending much of the 4 day weekend in the hospital though I’ll ...

I worked last evening. It was remarkable because not only did I not have any patients with COVID, but I also didn’t even have any patients I thought ...