POSTED: November 7th, 2016
POSTED IN: Fall 2016,
ACEP is in need of “Doc Blog” content for their Emergency Care For You site. They are looking for articles on basic consumer-health information and have provided suggested topics below.
If you have other ideas, they are open to that as well. Articles should be 400-500 words in length, created in a Word document, and have some element of personal experience (mainly a patient or patients you treated once and how that experience can help others, etc.). Please reach out to Michael Baldyga, mbaldyga@acep.org, prior to writing content to verify there is still content needed for that topic.
Suggested Topics:
What all parents (medically) need to know when sending kids off to live at college
Food poisoning
Lyme disease
A patient experience anaphylaxis
Injuries from being hit by a car
Sickle Cell – what is it? What are the symptoms? Treatments?
Importance of giving blood
Injuries at the playground
Poisonous Snakebites
Electrical shock injuries
An example of a patient who waited too long before going to the ED
Texting while walking injuries
Common Foot injuries and what causes them
Ambulance diversion – how has it affected situations in your ED?
Mental health crisis and how it affects the ED
ED violence – a situation I personally experienced