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Michelle Lin Medical Doctor

Specialty: Emergency Medicine
San Francisco, California
Blog: http://academiclifeinem.blogspot.com
I recently started my blog (AcademicLifeinEM.blogspot.com) as a means to show medical students, residents, and practicing emergency physicians about what life is like in academic Emergency Medicine. A large draw for going into academia includes teaching, meeting and working with amazing people,... Full Bio
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The SCRAP Rule: Indications for chest CT in blunt trauma by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy At my institution, trauma patients frequently receive the “Pan Scan,” to rule out acute injury. Recently, Payrastre et al published the SCRAP Rule ... Read on »
Trick of the Trade: Making the NG and NP procedures less painful by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy When doing nasogastric (NG) tubes and fiberoptic nasopharyngoscopy (NP) procedures, there many approaches in how patients can be locally anesthetized. Getting ... Read on »
Learning "Information Management" instead of "Evidence Based Medicine"? by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Keeping up with the literature these days is quite a daunting task. Medical information has increased exponentially over the past few decades and continues to do s ... Read on »
Patwari Academy video: Altered mental status by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Get an organized approach on the broad chief complaint of "Altered Mental Status". Learn about the AEIOU TIPS mnemonic. Read on »
Disability Insurance - Yes or No? by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Do you currently have disability insurance? Please comment using the Blog's Comment link. I am set to graduate residency this June 2013 and among all the ... Read on »
Management of Syncope a.k.a "Done Fell Out" by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy "Done Fell Out", or DFO, is a common saying in the South to describe syncope. Although the saying is funny the diagnosis is not. Syncope accounts for about 3–5% ... Read on »
Sim Case Series: Incorporating ABEM Milestones by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In this week's simulation case, you will notice the addition of a table which is a description of ABEM Milestone  #9 - General approach to Procedures (PC9). I cr ... Read on »
Sim Case Series: Perimortem C-Section by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy ALiEM Sim Case Series Perimortem C-Section Case Writer: Clare Desmond, MD Peer Reviewer and Editor: Nikita Joshi, MD Keywords: Cardiac arrest, Per ... Read on »
Trick of the Trade: Rapid Oral Phenytoin Loading in the ED by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Case A 57 y/o, 75 kg male presents to the ED after a witnessed seizure. He describes a history of seizure disorder and is prescribed phenytoin, but rec ... Read on »
Tweet Pearls of the Week - Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy "Fluid redistribution more important early than fluid removal."  Dr. Amal Mattu ( @amalmattu ) [ View the story "Tweet Pearls of the Week " on Storify ] ... Read on »
Be a great speaker: 10 practical pearls (part 5 of 5) by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy For the CORD Distinguished Educator's Coaching Program, Dr. Gus Garmel has kindly offered to share his top 50 points to improve one's speaking skills. These tip ... Read on »
Chest Pain (Part 3 of 3): Coronary CT Angiography in the ED by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy It is well known that taking a good history and physical, getting a non-ischemic EKG, and serial cardiac biomarkers, results in a risk of death/A ... Read on »
Trick of the Trade: Fluorescein for lost contact lens by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A patient's contact lens broke when she was trying to take it off.  She feels the pieces are still inside her eye, but she was unable to fish them out. When y ... Read on »
NG Lavage: Indicated or Outdated? by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Nasogastric lavage (NGL) seems to be a logical procedure in the evaluation of patients with suspected upper GI bleeding, but does the evidence supp ... Read on »
10 Tips to Success as a Junior Faculty in Academic Medicine by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy As I am getting into my 3rd year of practice as a faculty in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, I have begun to wish I had a better framework for success ... Read on »
Writing content for social media? Protect yourself! by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In the past few months, this blog has been successful in working with Google to remove pirating sites, which directly cut and paste all of our content (including PV c ... Read on »
Be a great speaker: 10 practical pearls (part 4 of 5) by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy For the CORD Distinguished Educator's Coaching Program, Dr. Gus Garmel has kindly offered to share his top 50 points to improve one's speaking skills. These tip ... Read on »
Are IVs scut work? by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Is there educational value to teaching and learning how to place peripheral IVs? Not the exciting central lines, IOs, or ultrasound guided IVs. I am talking abo ... Read on »
Chest Pain (Part 2 of 3): Can we do 2-hour rule outs? by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Hospital admissions for chest pain often incur costly and resource-intensive workups for ACS. Is there a way to identify a low risk group who can be discharged ... Read on »
Rivaroxaban for Pulmonary Embolism: One pill and done? by Michelle Lin Medical Doctor Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy With Dr. Jeff Tabas giving a lecture on the perennially hot topic of pulmonary embolism (PE) at the upcoming UCSF High Risk EM Conference ( main link , PDF  Brochu ... Read on »
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