Meeting
Abstract Number: 88
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Unconscious attitudes, also known as implicit biases are ubiquitous and their effects are wide-ranging. From something as seemingly insignificant as the clutching of a purse in lieu of a passerby to something of potential great consequence such as the lack of a surgical referral, the fingerprints of implicit bias are on many of the […]
Abstract Number: 534
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 52 year-old homeless man presented to the ED with knee pain after a mechanical fall. X-ray confirmed a depressed, lateral tibial plateau fracture. He was discharged with a knee brace and a referral to orthopedic surgery. Because of continued knee pain, he returned to the same ED two days later and went […]