Emmanuel King, MD

Breaking the cycle: Preventing workplace violence against healthcare workers Workplace violence (WPV) in healthcare is a growing crisis, and hospital-based approaches are urgently needed. We review two recently published efforts and describe our own pathway to address WPV. Sa...

Workplace violence against healthcare workers is on the rise and we need to break the cycle. Check out our editorial in #JournalofHospitalMedicine where we highlight recent work on prevention strategies. #patientcenteredcare #staffsafety. shmpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Caveat: if they say "bun" instead of enunciating each letter ("B-U-N") I would fire them

I'm not much use to my kids with video games. Until today. Someone made a Roblox hospital game where you run around as a nurse, so my kid is muttering things like: what the heck is heparin? What is lasix? Where can I find an IV pump?

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Welcome new faculty and Instructors to Penn's Division of Hospital Medicine! Day 1 (virtual) complete and can't wait to continue in person for Days 2-3 with the 18 of you! We will soon be opening recruitment for July 2026, see my pinned post for link to our job site or DM me.

I’m only a Juris Doctor, but I diagnose Don Jr. as being a soulless moron.

Of all nights I pick hyperkalemia night instead of dollar dog night

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Had the pleasure of observing a colleague running teaching rounds, them debriefing afterwards. A few months back, they had done the same during my rounds. If you are in academic medicine and not doing bidirectional peer observations, highly recommend. The more senior person has as much to gain!

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Hot take. The older surgeon dressed in wrinkled scrubs with a blazer and dress shoes look doesn't work.

Finally, a wholesome break from doom scrolling! 🥰🐶

At first I was like why is he just reposting and not tearing this apart then my eyes scrolled up to see it was The Onion. Nicely played

This.

Sitting in a meeting being told that our recruitment website which I have invested countless hours into needs to be scrubbed of any whiffs of DEI. Knew this was coming but remain outraged, sad and worried.

Happy Hospitalist Day! Proud to be part of one of the oldest academic Divisions in the nation and love my colleagues and the patient/family centered and collaborative care they provide. If you know a Hospitalist give them a high five today!

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Nerding out in Denver with my perioperative medicine brethren @spaqisociety.bsky.social

The problem these days is you might very well be right !

a close up of a man in a christmas outfit with the words `` you sit on a throne of lies '' . ALT: a close up of a man in a christmas outfit with the words `` you sit on a throne of lies '' .

You mean the medical consultants they hire don't always get it right?

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Hot take: one cannot obtain a reasonably priced proper mango that will ripen and be delectable except at an ethnic grocery store. Discuss

Great discussion. Thanks for your perspectives!

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‘Cybertruck Man’
a cartoon in defiance of Musk
#political #cartoonist #cybertruck #elon #musk #democracy #tiananmen

The fact that FOUR physicians voted to confirm an antivaxxer with zero qualifications to run HHS is just so depressing

After Trump is gone, one of the things I’m going to remember is the cowardice of people who went along.

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That is SO much better than the tired old fireplace. And that'd better be Chunky Soup

A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

Please read, because, quoting the author: "don't give in to cynicism or apathy. That's what the people promulgating these horrible policies want - a bored, indifferent public who figures that who cares, nothing matters any more, it's gonna happen no matter what. But it doesn't have to."

The kind of thing where if it weren't 2025 you would skim through, chuckle and move on. But since it's 2025 just add it to the pile of existential dread.

My mood…

“DEI is not a threat. It’s a gift.”

— Alicia Keys accepting the Global Impact Award at the #GRAMMYs .

I’m sure deporting people who produce food and slapping tariffs on countries that we buy massive amounts of food from will lower costs any day now.