AI in Emergency Medicine
AI Won’t Fix Your Boarding Crisis
April 8, 2026 · Chester Shermer
Every hospital executive who has watched an emergency department collapse under the weight of boarded patients has heard the same pitch from at least one v
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Physician-led articles on emergency medicine, AI implementation, simulation, and operational leadership.
AI in Emergency Medicine
AI in Emergency Medicine: Your Triage Is Already Obsolete
April 7, 2026 · Chester Shermer
Discover how AI is transforming emergency medicine triage. Dr. Shermer shares 25 years of EM insights on becoming AI bulletproof. Start today. It is 0300
AI in Emergency Medicine
AI Literacy in Emergency Medicine: What You Need to Know
April 4, 2026 · Chester Shermer
Medically reviewed and authored by Chester Shermer, MD, FACEP | Updated April 2026 | 18 min read Emergency physicians using AI tools without understa
AI in Emergency Medicine
When to Override the AI: A Decision Framework for Physicians
April 4, 2026 · Chester Shermer
The decision, and it's timing, to override an AI recommendation in emergency medicine is a clinical judgment call that belongs exclusively to the treating
AI Risk & Governance
AI Bias in Pain Management Is an ED Problem
March 29, 2026 · Chester Shermer
A 2024 study from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found that AI chatbots—including GPT-4 and Google's Gemini Pro—consistently underassessed pain in Bl
AI in Emergency Medicine
Prompt Engineering for EM Docs
March 27, 2026 · Chester Shermer
AI tools only work as well as the instructions you give them. It is 2:47 a.m. and Bay 6 is a mess. A 58-year-old male presents with chest pain, diaphoresi
Operational Medicine AI
AI in Military Medicine: What Leaders Must Know
March 26, 2026 · Chester Shermer
The United States military has always been an early adopter of technology that promises operational advantage. Night vision. GPS. Unmanned aerial systems.
AI in Emergency Medicine
Responding to AI Diagnostic Failures in Emergency Medicine
March 25, 2026 · Chester Shermer
Every technology introduced into emergency medicine eventually produces its first sentinel event. Computerized physician order entry was supposed to elimin
AI in Emergency Medicine
Cybersecurity Is the AI Risk Nobody in Your ED Owns
March 22, 2026 · Chester Shermer
In May 2025, the Interlock ransomware group hit Kettering Health—a 14-hospital system in Ohio—and shut down its Epic EHR for two weeks. Emergency departmen
Clinical Documentation AI
AI and Patient Handoffs: The Documentation Gap
March 15, 2026 · Chester Shermer
The patient handoff, or signout, is the most vulnerable moment in emergency medicine continuity of care. Every transition—shift change, ED-to-inpatient adm
Clinical Documentation AI
AI Discharge Instructions: Who’s Responsible?
March 14, 2026 · Chester Shermer
Of all the liability surfaces AI is creating in emergency medicine, discharge instructions may be the most underestimated. The note you sign at the end of
AI in Emergency Medicine
Building AI Fluency as a Professional Survival Skill
March 11, 2026 · Chester Shermer
There is a version of the future where AI tools are simply embedded in clinical practice and physicians use them the way they currently use ultrasound — co
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