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Competence vs Decision Making Capacity

Sep 23, 2010

Legal expert Rich Orman joins ercast for a discussion about the distinction between competence and medical decision making capacity.

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-A dog bites my brother's scrotum

-ercast and EMRAP

-listener email on induced hypothermia and MRSA

MRSA and Abscess Part 1

Sep 16, 2010

Dr. Greg Moran, the ultimate Jedi Master of emergency medicine infectious disease, talks with ercast about MRSA, abscesses, decolonization therapy, cellulitis and much, much more.

Does a simple cutaneous abscess need antibiotics?

Why is MRSA such a nasty bug?

How should we be treating cellulitis in the MRSA era?

Do most...