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The Four Types of Emergency Physicians You Meet in Residency
Residency teaches you medicine. It also teaches you who you might become.
8 hrs ago
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Mike Rubin MD
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Sometimes the Delusions are Real
A reminder from the emergency department: not every delusion is wrong.
May 19
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Mike Rubin MD
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Shift Change
Sometimes the most stressful part of the shift isn’t the patients.
May 14
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Mike Rubin MD
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Why We Laugh When We Shouldn’t
The dark humour of emergency medicine—and why it keeps us from breaking
May 12
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Mike Rubin MD
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There Is No Protocol for This
Radical Acceptance Is How You Survive This Job
May 5
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Mike Rubin MD
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My First “Save” Was at 35,000 Feet
Is there a doctor onboard?
May 1
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Mike Rubin MD
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April 2026
The Most Dangerous Diagnosis Isn’t Made by a Doctor
It’s made before the patient ever walks into the room.
Apr 28
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Mike Rubin MD
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What Emergency Medicine Asks of Women
Why gender inequity isn’t just personal—it’s built into the structure of the job.
Apr 23
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Mike Rubin MD
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When the Emergency Doctor Became the Patient
What I learned lying on a stretcher in my own emergency department.
Apr 21
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Mike Rubin MD
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The Emergency Department Doesn’t Run on Doctors
It runs on the people you don’t see—and the system collapses without them.
Apr 17
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Mike Rubin MD
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What Emergency Physicians Are Carrying (That Was Never Theirs)
The invisible weight of responsibility—and the moment I realized some of it was never mine to hold.
Apr 9
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Mike Rubin MD
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Why Emergency Physicians Die Young
This isn’t burnout. It’s biology.
Apr 7
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Mike Rubin MD
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