A flexible duty hour schedule that kept total weekly hours under 80 but allowed for longer shift length and no fixed mandatory time off between shifts was not inferior to the current standard duty hour regulations when it came to sleep duration or morning alertness.

This editorial helps us understand how to avoid the bystander effect in medicine and has direct applicability for the ED.

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We want to feature great free medical education #FOAMed resources from around the web. One I learned of this week is called Visualmed. It is run by a third year IM resident at UConn, Usama Nasir. It takes key RCTs and turns them into infographics.

That’s right - I will be your guide into the wonderful world of odds ratios. The good thing about having an idiot for a guide is that I have to make it simple to understand it myself, which means, hopefully, you will understand it as well.

By testing your knowledge of what we covered in November, you lock the information into long term memory effortlessly.

Did you know that in most states, patients can still vote while hospitalized? Learn more at PatientVoting.com.

By testing your knowledge of what we covered in October, you lock the information into long term memory effortlessly.

In light of the important prehospital airway management articles that came out this week, I thought it might be helpful to go into more depth on the topic of prehospital airway management.

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