Hello Group,

 

My name is Eric Gorinstein and I am a 3^rd year making my way through clinical rotations and currently considering Emergency Medicine as a specialty. I thought I would share with you guys some of the websites and blogs that I have been visiting in order to gain greater insight into this field. Most of the blogs that interest me are focused on personal opinions and individual experiences, describing what life is actually like for an Emergency physician, because that is information vital to making a career decision that no book or expert can ever give you. Without any further ado, here are my top picks for EM blogs:

 

 

A cynical and entertaining look at Emergency medicine, med school, residency, and the health care system in general, from a former marine and current EM Resident. If you want a laugh, go through his archives and find his guides to getting into med school and surviving third year rotations. Overall, very well written essay-format and does a great job of ‘cutting through the BS’:

http://www.pandabearmd.com/

 

Stories and thoughts about day to day life in the ER. A great place to get a feel for what the daily ups and downs of Emergency Medicine are really like:

http://emphysician.blogspot.com/

http://www.scalpelorsword.blogspot.com/

http://trismus1.wordpress.com/

 

A group blog about the same thing:

http://docsontheweb.blogspot.com/

 

Technically, this blog is written by a hospitalist, but it has a lot of interesting Internal Med cases:

http://thehappyhospitalist.blogspot.com/

 

This is a blog that covers more general topics in medicine; the latest in politics, ethics, and medicine in the news:

http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/

 

Last, but not least, a must see on any tour of the medical online world… The EM forum on Studentdoctor.net, that great clearing house of information on all things students and doctor…

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/forumdisplay.php?f=43

 

 

Hope this has been helpful,

Eric Gorinstein