Tag: skill decay

With the variability of patient complexity, time of presentation, resource availability, and a whole slew of other external factors, patient’s presenting to the ED can have high morbidity and mortality. But should they be worrying about the age of the provider caring for them? In this recent Annals of Emergency Medicine article, the answer, at least on the surface, appears to be yes- there was a link between physician age and patient mortality. But there is so much more to […]