Emergency medicine insights
Physician-led articles on emergency medicine, AI implementation, simulation, and operational leadership.
AI in Emergency Medicine
September 6, 2026 · Chester Shermer, MD, FACEP
General-purpose AI can surface drug-interaction questions, but it cannot replace medication reconciliation, an approved reference, or pharmacist and physician judgment in the ED.
AI in Emergency Medicine
August 30, 2026 · Chester Shermer, MD, FACEP
An ED AI outage is a clinical transition, not only an IT incident. Use five tests to recognize failure, switch to a safe fallback, reconcile the record, and train the team before the next shift depends on it.
AI in Emergency Medicine
August 23, 2026 · Chester Shermer, MD, FACEP
A vendor demo is not evidence that an AI tool will work in your emergency department. Here is the evidence packet and local stop rule to require before go-live.
AI Risk & Governance
August 16, 2026 · Chester Shermer, MD, FACEP
A practical ED playbook for tracking AI changes, detecting model drift, and building a rollback plan before patient safety is at risk.
AI Risk & Governance
August 9, 2026 · Chester Shermer, MD, FACEP
AI risk scores can help emergency physicians see patterns sooner, but low risk is not a disposition plan.
AI Risk & Governance
August 2, 2026 · Chester Shermer, MD, FACEP
AI alerts do not make the ED safer by themselves. A practical framework for assigning ownership, escalation, and off-ramps before go-live.
AI Governance
July 26, 2026 · Chester Shermer, MD, FACEP
A practical ED ops rule for safe AI CDS: if it can’t show its work for rapid clinician review, it doesn’t steer care.
AI Risk & Governance
July 19, 2026 · Chester Shermer, MD, FACEP
A practical governance checklist for deploying ambient AI documentation in the ED without creating polished, dangerous chart errors.
Simulation & Training
July 17, 2026 · Chester Shermer, MD, FACEP
The skills most likely to kill a patient when fumbled are the ones we practice least. A HEMS medical director's evidence-based framework for EMS simulation training that actually transfers to the street.
ED Management
July 15, 2026 · Chester Shermer, MD, FACEP
A meaningful share of the patients you admit never needed an inpatient bed — they needed 15 hours of protocolized care. A 25-year EM physician's playbook for building an ED observation unit that actually fixes boarding.
AI in Emergency Medicine
July 12, 2026 · Chester Shermer, MD, FACEP
A practical ED playbook for training clinicians to catch and manage AI errors before automation bias turns them into patient harm.
AI in Emergency Medicine
July 5, 2026 · Chester Shermer, MD, FACEP
A practical ED playbook for catching, documenting, and governing AI-driven triage errors before they harm patients.
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