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Forbidden Games
1952 'Jeux interdits' Directed by René Clément
War...and how it affects the lives of our children
A timeless evocation of childhood innocence corrupted, René Clément's Forbidden Games tells the story of a young girl orphaned by war and the farm boy she joins in a fantastical world of macabre play. At once mythical and heartbreakingly real, this unique film features astonishing performances by its child stars and was honored with a special foreign language film Academy Award in 1952.
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"Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
- William Butler Yeats
There are only a handful of movies which have made me bawl my eyes out...This winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, a Special Award as Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars is a devastating and lyrical poetic ode to loss of childhood innocence..featuring heart wrenching performances and soulful background score this one is timeless!!!
Seeking perfection in art is a curse. "Why?" I hear you demand in suitably suppliant fashion. Because 'flaws' are often an irrelevance, and one that distracts viewers, reviewers and critics from embracing something truly special.
Take Forbidden Games, an Oscar-winner from 1952, which has more than its fair share of narrative and stylistic shortcomings. The subplots required to power its plot - including a rivalry between neighbours and an illicit romance between their offspring - are heavy-handed and a little dull, while the interiors shot around the lower level of a farmhouse are neither cinematic nor terribly credible.
Which makes it a flawed film, right? But it's also one of the greatest films ever made: an incredible, indelible movie about…
Starting and finishing with just two of the many tragedies of the Second World War, Forbidden Games focusses on a family involved in the war purely thanks to the bad luck of living in rural France in 1940. Having witnessed the slaughter of her parents by a Nazi Messerschmitt bomber, young Paulette finds herself taken in by the Dollé family, all of whom are suffering at the hands of the war.
Forbidden Games is a beautiful if tragic portrayal of childhood innocence above all else. Despite witnessing something as horrific as the death of her own parents, Paulette seems unstirred, knowing that they are dead but not understanding what that actually means. As the film continues this innocence fades, she…
A deeply affecting wartime fable that, like the very best of war films, presents us with the horrors as (barely) understood by a child. Startlingly good young leads lend an air of angelic grace to a story that turns out to be far more comical than I anticipated. The laughs—and they are many—don't prohibit the moments of intense drama, and Clémeni manages to espouse some pretty contentious views on the role and relevance of religion amid all the havoc. The balance between comedy and tragedy is so strikingly adept, keeping us consistently amused before reminding us of the difficulty of life in these times with all the sharpness of a slap to the face. Showing war through a kid's eyes…
I tend to have a fairly mainstream taste, but one of the major films where I go against the grain is Grave of the Fireflies (Mike D'Angelo may be a little harsh, but not too far when he said of it as being "anti-idiocy" more than anti-war). Now comes Forbidden Games, another film that deals with children facing the ramification of war. Both films have to walk a tight balance between illustrating the war's horror and aftereffect, and also depicting a clear-eyed view of the children's "innocence."
I feel Grave falters hard in the latter aspect, contrasting much by what Forbidden Games does right by it. Both films show the children's flaws, but Forbidden Games feels more straightforward and honest…
Released in 1952 this René Clément war movie won the Venice Film Festival's main award but has subsided in popularity as the years went by. It expertly manages to delight, move and repel in equal measures and whilst its controversial subject matter may not shock as it once did it is still quite unsettling. The film opens with a young girl, Paulette (played brilliantly by a then 5 year old Brigitte Fossey) fleeing Paris with her parents and dog as German bombers attack. Her entire family (including dog) are killed by machine gun fire as they try and escape over a bridge. Dazed and confused by what has happened she stumbles upon a nearby farm and makes friends with the…
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Most of the stuff with the Dolle family is condescending and ridiculous, but the child actors are so incredibly good that they sell this heartbreaking portrait of innocence and tragedy in wartime anyway.
The acting by the two children is astonishing, their bewilderment and the equal bewilderment of the peasant society around them at events they cannot comprehend is poignant.
Thankfully the dreadful alternative "framing" sequence is kept separate, worth watching once in order to squirm, The actual ending, although I gather it came about as a consequence of running out of funds, is perfect and haunting.
This is a film made with much humanity but also humour something I had not expected from the reviews i had read in the past.
Tops :
+++ Brigitte Fossey
++ Michel!!!!
++ Story
+ Music
+ Better on a rewatch
Flops :
- A bit too much religious references
- The acting is uneven from the different actors
This heartbreaking examination of two children's close relationship is one of the most beautiful and moving cinematic experiences I've ever had. I honestly don't know if I could bear to watch it again. It's so poignant and haunting, the story draws you in and never lets you go until the gripping end. The finale will definitely stick to you for a long time after.
A short and sweet film involving two children: the angelic, Parisian
Paulette and the farmer's son Michel, who become playmates and create an animal cemetery to escape the death and war around them.
Perhaps too sentimental, but it is equally sad and joyous - capturing the innocence of youth whilst the world crumbles around them.
Maybe it wasn't very clever of me to read Truffaut's "A Certain Tendency in French Cinema" before watching Forbidden Games, but I don't think it pointed out anything that wasn't visible from the film alone, so here goes.
The people of rural France are portrayed as the mean, amoral, rotten agents in what we all know from the very beginning is essentially a hopeless tragedy, but one devoid of the humanism and understanding of Neo-realism. The contrast between this completely pejorative representation and the way the children are made to look angelic - especially Paulette because, you know, she's Parisian - is phony and vicious, grossly forcing a Manichaean vision of mean adults vs good children. The ending, with all…
Little kids learning to deal with death.
Some oddly heartwarming scenes.
"You're never satisfied"
Forbidden Games is one of those pictures I have been seeking to see for ages. I knew the reputation that the film had but strangely enough the thing that pulled me the most into this picture was actually its beautiful name Jeux interdits and its iconic poster. To add to that, the film had an interesting premise and it was directed by René Clement, a director whose work I had still not dug into.
Forbidden Games is Directed by René Clement and it stars Brigitte Fossey, Georges Poujouly, Amédée, Laurence Badie and Suzanne Courtal.
You know those highly regarded classics that everyone praises and loves so much, that you then see and simply cannot see what…
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Forbidden Games is one of those acclaimed movies that also are much praised here at LB, and still I can't wholeheartedly approve neither acclaim nor the generous ratings. To me it's more of an interesting movie than a truly great one.
There's certainly layers here; playing around from innocence, ignorance, morbidity and the differences between the adults and the children--for better or worse. And I'm not discouraged by having two main characters portrayed by children; as both Brigitte Fossey and Georges Poujouly does remarkably well with their material.
But there's quite a lot to be said about the cinematography, stumbling secondary story-strings, and a lack of realism in the more…
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Tonight's performance by Jon Lester was a good example why the term "quality start" is so problematic. Technically, he registered one: six innings, three runs, three walks, five hits, four K's. Blah. It didn't really feel like quality out there, but I guess holding the opponent to three runs (especially when your bullpen maintains the lead) should be enough with this Sox team. It wasn't, and they dropped the contest 3-2 to Baltimore. Eck said it best -- midway through the game there was a pause and he said something to the effect of the game feeling more like 5-2 or so. It just seemed like the Orioles were outplaying Boston. Shane Victorino had another strong night, with two hits, including another one of his line-drive home runs over the Monster. Victorino also covered a ton of ground in right field running down a few fly balls in the gap, leading to those "You know, it sure is nice to have a center fielder in right field" conversations in the booth (and probably in bars around New England as well). Daniel Nava had three hits and Jacoby Ellsbury added two. Ellsbury had a nice personal achievement, stealing his 50th bag of the season. He stole it on a pitch-out that Matt Wieters misfired to 2nd...and it would've been close even if he had thrown it well. Nobody else could do much against Chris Tillman, whose strong career numbers against Boston continued. Neither Sox reliever looked good, as Matt Thornton gave up two hits and Brandon Workman got himself into a jam in the 9th as he struggled to find the strike zone. Workman ended up throwing 43 pitches splitting time between the 8th and 9th, and Craig Breslow retired Chris Davis with two on to keep them in the game. The Sox did rally in the 9th with Nava reaching on an odd infield single thanks to some miscommunication between Jim Johnson and Davis, but Jonny Gomes promptly GIDP'd to remove the threat. Box score
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Roxy teams up with SGT (SASS Global Travel) sending Roxy pro riders Erin Comstock and Robin Van Gyn to host two weeks of powder snowboarding, backcountry coaching, guiding and Roxy signature events in Argentina.
VANCOUVER, BC, May 26th -- Roxy is proud to announce the addition of another Roxy summer snowboard event in 2011 with the launch of the 2011 Roxy Women's Session at SGT's Argentina operation in beautiful Bariloche. Running from August 20th to September 3rd, 2011, Roxy athletes Robin Van Gyn and Erin Comstock will be on hand coaching with SASS's experienced coaching and guiding staff, in addition to hosting signature Roxy events on and off snow.
The Roxy Women's Session is focused on getting female riders into the backcountry and improving every aspect of their snowboarding, from big mountainn riding, jumps, trees and most importantly safe backcountry travel.
Roxy has been at the forefront of women's progression in snowboarding supporting and nurturing their athletes in all their snowboarding endeavours. To keep the movement strong, Roxy turned to SASS, who has been an important part of the freeride movement educating and building strong freeriders through their coaching and guiding program for the last 7 years.
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New anti-terror measures being considerd by the United Kingdom would work great, if the terrorists were a bunch of 16-year-old girls
However hateful those Dalhousie students' comments may be, they were private comments that were never intended to be heard by anyone except those to whom they were made
It's unfortunate that the Supreme Court chose to disregard Canadians' right to be 'secure against unreasonable search or seizure'
A new app helps people create compelling and legally solid requests to ISPs for the personal information the company has about them. I suggest that anyone who cares about their privacy use it to learn what data is being held by the telecoms they're patronizing and when that data is being shared.
The Supreme Court upheld the sensible notion that if police want to know who's using a certain Internet protocol (IP) address to conduct nefarious activities, then police should get a warrant
Experts say police would be able to install viruses, or malware, into the electronics of anyone suspected of a crime, after gaining judicial approval
Canadians deserve to know why the government is so interested in our personal information
Remember Vic Toews' infamous 'child porn' bill? It's back under a new name
It is absurd that a Canadian court would prevent a sex assault survivor from freely identifying herself to the press
Our spy agencies are trying to claim that they haven't violated our right to privacy. This is clearly untrue


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I went out to Alfredos to have a nice dinner w my family and we all recieved our food st fifferent times. By the time I got my food my whole family was done eating and ready to leave. The food was not good either. Waste of money.


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Use of Intravenous tPA Draft Clinical Guideline Open for Comment Until March 13, 2015
Posted by dscheid in Uncategorized on January 12th, 2015
The Clinical Policies Committee of ACEP has completed a draft clinical guideline: "Clinical Policy: Use of Intravenous tPA for the Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke in the Emergency Department." Since the 2012 clinical policy on IV tPA, there have been changes to the clinical policies development process, the grading forms used to rate published research have continued to evolve, and some newer research articles have been published.
The draft is now open for comments until March 13, 2015.
To view the draft policy and comment form, Click Below:
Clinical Policy Comment Form – Intravenous-tPA
For questions, please contact Rhonda Whitson at email@example.com.
Free Book Chapter on Infectious Diseases Available to ACEP Members
Posted by dscheid in Uncategorized on October 23rd, 2014
As relieved as we are that the Ebola outbreak appears to be limited and less of a daily concern in our emergency departments, we do still remain on alert for the outbreak of other infectious diseases. It's been very gratifying to see several ACEP members who are subject matter experts in infectious disease step up and help us create the resources we've posted on ACEP.org for the entire emergency medicine community. Among those experts are Kristi Koenig and Carl Schultz from the University of California at Irvine. They're working on a new edition of their book on disaster medicine and realized that the chapter on emerging infectious diseases would be very useful to us all right now. As they said,
"The emergency health care system must be prepared for an evolving public health event of international significance such as this. Emergency physicians are on the front lines and should be knowledgeable, up-to-date, and ready to effectively manage infectious disease threats. It doesn't matter whether such threats arise from Ebola virus disease, Enterovirus D-68, MERS-CoV, SARS, the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, or the next big event, as yet unnamed. We should be leaders in our hospitals, EMS systems, and communities, advocating for protection of the public health, our patients, and colleagues."
Kristi and Carl have donated a preliminary electronic draft of that chapter to the College – to all of you, really – as a resource to help you and your team prepare to screen for and treat the wide range of infectious diseases any of us could see any day of the week.
Just follow this link to download the chapter now.
Best wishes to you all, and be well. We hope to see you next week in Chicago for ACEP14.
Alex M. Rosenau, DO, CEP, FACEP
ACEP President
Micahael J. Gerardi, MD, FAAP, FACEP
ACEP President-Elect
ACEP President: College Offering Several Ebola Information Initiatives to Health Care Professionals
Posted by dscheid in Uncategorized on October 17th, 2014
With so much information and speculation being circulated about Ebola presentations in the United States, I want you – our members – to know what your College is doing on this issue.
The landscape about treatment and containment of this infectious disease is changing minute by minute. ACEP has been working in many ways to filter the information and provide you with a trusted source of updates. We also have many initiatives planned for next week, next month and beyond as we continue to help you in these challenging times and be a supportive advocate for our specialty and our patients. Advocating for your safety and making sure you have everything you need are our most important goals.
Here are some of the things we are doing:
Expert Panel
- Immediately convene a panel of 8 emergency care infectious disease experts.
- Review materials pertinent to emergency care for dissemination to members.
- Respond to questions posted by members via an easily accessible form on the www.acep.org/ebola resource page.
- Develop repository of best practices for managing the patient with suspected and confirmed Ebola and work with CDC, WHO, and other federal, state and local agencies to develop protocols that can be implemented in hospitals with limited resources. Update the content regularly.
Resources on ACEP Website
- Consolidation of pertinent resources, including those from the Expert Panel, on www.acep.org/ebola with frequent updates.
- Continue to promote availability of resources through social media, e-newsletters and other communication vehicles.
Advocacy Agenda
Identify short and long-term legislative initiatives designed to assist our members and other health care providers to enhance their disaster preparedness:
- Advocate for regionalization protocols
- Enactment of trauma systems/emergency regionalization legislation
- Funding of a national grid of bio-containment hospital annexes,
- Increase funding for disaster preparedness
- Increase supplies of PPEs
- Additional resources for training and retention of first responders
- Good Samaritan liability protection for first responders in a national emergency
Communications with Members
- EM Today curates the media daily for a round-up of the most pertinent articles and editorials.
- Immediate dissemination of important information through social media, e-newsletters and stand-alone messages.
- Section listservs include the latest updates and guidelines from CDC to some of the most impacted sections – Air Medical Transport, Disaster Medicine, EMS-Prehospital Care, and Tactical Emergency Medicine.
- EMS Committee review of CDC guidelines to consider operational 'suggestions' on meeting the requirements or model practices.
Communication with the Public and the News Media
- Linking reporters with ACEP experts in infectious disease and disaster preparedness. ACEP is managing 10 to 20 calls a day from reporters on this issue. (a round-up of ACEP spokesperson in the news can be found at http://www.acep.org/Content.aspx?id=80956)
- Coordinated editorial about Ebola response for ACEP President Dr. Alex Rosenau published in USA Today.
- Developed talking points for use by ACEP spokespersons to conduct press interviews.
- Using responses from ACEP infectious disease and preparedness experts to craft public messages.
Educational Opportunities
- New course on Ebola infection and emergency department response added to ACEP14 — "Ebola: Hemorrhagic Fever and the U.S. Experience" will be presented Tuesday, October 28, during ACEP14, the world's largest meeting of emergency physicians.
- ACEP14 Ebola Courses – Three presentations from ACEP14, October 27-30, will be captured live and presented as free courses in ACEP eCME, the College's online and mobile education platform to members and other EM colleagues. Each of the three courses will have a pretest, an audio and slide presentation of the lecture as it was delivered live in Chicago, and a post-test. Each of the courses also is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit.™The courses are:
- Inside the Hot Zone: Highly Infectious Pathogens in the ED / David C. Pigott, MD, RDMS, FACEP, will identify those pathogens—including Ebola and anthrax—that are most likely to be encountered in the ED as well as those that present the greatest risk for health care providers and other personnel. This case-based review will include a discussion of appropriate barrier precautions, including personal protective equipment, as well as departmental and hospital-based infectious disease transmission precautions.
- Ebola: Hemorrhagic Fever and the U.S. Experience / David C. Pigott, MD, RDMS, FACEP; and Alexander P. Isakov, MD, FACEP will discuss the risk factors for exposure to the Ebola virus, the clinical features associated with, and considerations for, evaluation and management of patients with suspected or confirmed Ebola virus disease (EVD). They will highlight the most recent recommendations for infection control and prevention applicable for healthcare workers in both the out-of-hospital (EMS) and emergency department setting. Participants will be provided a framework that permits the delivery of optimal care to this special patient population while minimizing risk to members of the healthcare team.
- Infections From Abroad: Unwanted Souvenirs / Ever heard about "airport malaria?" Should you be worried about that "funny rash" on the Ugandan businessman? What medical advice do you give your sister who is planning a trip to Vietnam? Swaminatha Mahadevan, MD, FACEP, will identify infectious hotspots around the world and highlight "must-know facts" about travelers and visitors from these areas. In addition, find out what precautions travelers should consider as they plan their next great adventure abroad.
- "Emerging Infectious Diseases: Concepts in Preparing for and Responding to the Next Microbial Threat" – Two of the nation's experts in disaster medicine, Kristi Koenig, MD, FACEP, and Carl Schultz, MD, FACEP, along with Cambridge University Press, have donated the "rough cut" of this chapter from the second edition of their book, Koenig and Schultz's Disaster Medicine: Comprehensive Principles and Practice to help emergency physicians care for patients with a wide variety of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. It will be posted on the ACEP Ebola Resources page (www.acep.org/ebola) by Oct. 24, 2014. The chapter covers many diseases and a variety of issues such as resource allocation, preparedness training exercises, personnel, communications, and much more.
- "Innovations in Patient Safety Presented by ACEP, Urgent Matters, and the Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation" is a 5-hour conference scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 26, in Chicago. It will be captured live, and the portions addressing error prevention in the care of infectious diseases such as Ebola will be made available as another free educational resource.
- "ACEP Advanced EMS Practitioners' Forum and Workshop" is another education event scheduled for Oct. 26, in conjunction with ACEP14. It, too, will be recorded so that information related to prehospital response and precautions in infectious disease can be disseminated to a larger audience. There will be three presentations on Ebola and the Dallas experience.
- "Fighting Ebola by Design" is a 10-minute EDTalk in the innovatED space presented by HKS/MI2. These companies were involved in Project ER One, which was federally funded to develop design features for ED's to address terrorism, disaster and epidemics of emerging diseases. Innovative design features developed for ER One will be presented, as well as how one can mitigate the risk of infection transfer. Key features of design and new technology will be discussed. This talk will be videotaped and made available to the public as soon as possible after the conference.
Survey Members
- Ebola response survey being developed for dissemination through our Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Network (EMPRN) to gather data on preparedness for Ebola, EV-D68 and other infectious diseases. Members will be asked about their need for education/resources/assistance from ACEP and/or government sources to effectively respond to an Ebola case in their hospital.
- Surveyed the Disaster Medicine Section, EMS Committee and Section and ACEP infectious disease experts about response needs and preparedness
Work with Other Organizations
- Meet with high-level officials at the CDC.
- Convene a meeting(s) with the American Hospital Association, Emergency Nurses Association, National Association of EMS Physicians, Emergency Medicine Residents' Association, and other key stakeholders for information/resource sharing.
- Work with additional federal agencies, such as National Institutes of Health, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Emergency Care Coordination Center, Department of Homeland Security, and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, to develop resources for infectious disease response.
- Share information with top officers of the American Medical Association and other groups.
Regionalization will be a key discussion point in all conversations.
Alex M. Rosenau, DO, CPE, FACEP
October audio/podcast available!
Posted by David H. Newman, MD in Annals of Emergency Medicine, Uncategorized on October 2nd, 2014
Click here to get the shiny new October issue of the audio/podcast for Annals of EM.
-Patient satisfaction: is it a marker of quality care? NOPE
-Pediatric appendicitis: can EPs accurately use bedside sono?
-Navigating online EM resources: 5 tips
-Steroids for bronchiolitis: yes or no
Enjoy the ACEP 2014 SA in Chicago, find us and say 'hello'. Also, email email@example.com any time.
ps We forgot to post it on Central Line, but Sept is up as well — download and listen, it's a good one.
ACEP Meets with U.S. News and Doximity About Residency Program Survey
Posted by dscheid in Uncategorized on September 24th, 2014
Emergency physicians from top organizations representing emergency medicine traveled to Washington, DC, this week to meet with Ben Harder, managing editor and director of health care analysis at US News & World Report and Dr. Nate Gross, co-founder of Doximity, an online social networking service for U.S. physicians that conducts surveys for US News.
The purpose of these meetings was to convey the concerns of nine emergency medicine organizations about the results of a Doximity survey, which was promoted by US News & World Report, identifying the nation's top emergency medicine residency programs.
Prior to the meeting, emergency physicians from the nine organizations held a conference call and developed a joint letter to US News and Doximity challenging the sampling method and the implications of providing misleading information to medical students and the public.
Four physicians represented the group at these meetings:
- Hans R. House, MD, FACEP, ACEP board member
- Jeffrey N. Love, MD, MSC, president, Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors
- Jordan Celeste, MD, president, Emergency Medicine Residents' Association
- Mark Mitchell, DO, FACOEP, president, American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians
During the meetings, the physicians conveyed that the results:
- Are misleading to medical students because they are not based on objective criteria.
- Are not useful to medical students because residency choices are made for many reasons, including geography, which are not factors in the Doximity survey.
- Are not an accurate portrayal of residency programs because they are based solely upon opinions expressed by physicians who have no first-hand knowledge of any residency training programs other than the ones they attended.
- Do not reflect the unique nature of emergency medicine.
- Send a dangerous public health message to patients having medical emergencies.
The physicians conveyed there is potential value in a secure data service for communicating HIPAA-compliant messages among emergency physicians. Also, a resource that provides detailed information on residency programs and their alumni could help medical students in making decisions about their applications to specialty training. However, the collective organizations that represent all of emergency medicine could not support the data as long as the rankings were included. Both US News and Doximity agreed there were significant limitations of the data and discussed the challenges of developing objective measures for emergency medicine, because it is a unique medical specialty. Both also agreed that these data would not be promoted to the general public.
The editor at US News described the new organiza
tion's publications that rank hospitals and medical specialties as "consumer decision support," which are intended to help members of the general public make decisions about where to seek care for complex medical problems. Emergency medicine has never been included in these rankings in the past, and there are no plans to begin doing so. The editor conveyed that US News recognizes that, in a medical emergency, the best place to get care is the nearest emergency department.
The physicians asked to provide a companion piece to the US News article about the results. The editor agreed to review and publish, if acceptable. The co-founder of Doximity offered to discuss these issues with leaders in his organization and suggested further discussion at ACEP 14 in Chicago.
The following organizations are participating in this effort:
- American College of Emergency Physicians
- American Academy of Emergency Medicine
- American Academy of Emergency Medicine Resident and Student Association
- American Board of Emergency Medicine
- American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians
- Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine
- Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors
- Emergency Medicine Residents' Association
- Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
ACEP Disagrees With EM Residency Survey Method Used by US News & World Report
Posted by dscheid in Uncategorized on September 12th, 2014
ACEP and the leaders of other medical specialties representing emergency medicine, have taken issue with a recent survey of emergency medicine residency programs, by US News & World Report and Doximity. Below is a letter from Dr. Rosenau to US News & World Report.
September 12, 2014
Mr. Ben Harder
Managing Editor and Director
Health Care Analysis
US News & World Report
105 Thomas Jefferson Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007
Dear Mr. Harder:
As leaders of the top organizations representing emergency medicine, we have been contacted by scores of emergency physicians from around the country about a survey being conducted by Doximity and publicized by US News and World Report. We appreciate your recognition of emergency medicine as an academic medical specialty with a unique core of knowledge and robust research agenda.
However, we are concerned about the sampling method chosen for this survey, because we believe it will fail to achieve your objective for this survey — to identify America's top emergency medicine training programs. Asking only physicians enrolled in a social media website to nominate their five most preferred residencies will result in egregious sample bias and is not capable of resulting in a scientifically valid result. The results will be based solely upon opinions expressed by physicians who have no first-hand knowledge of any residency training programs other than the ones they attended themselves.
While not a formal ranking of residency programs, the results would convey that some programs provide better training than others. However, given the limitations, this would not be an accurate portrayal — to medical students or to the public. It also would not be useful to many medical students, because research shows that more than 75 percent of emergency physician residents report the number one reason for selecting a residency program is geography.
More concerning, the results could send a dangerous public health message to people with medical emergencies. It implies they should consider bypassing hospital emergency departments with residency programs that fared poorly in the survey. In a medical emergency, people should seek emergency care at the nearest emergency department, not one that scored better on a highly subjective opinion survey.
Patients need confidence in their physicians in times of crisis, especially since comparison shopping among doctors is not an option when someone is having a medical emergency. Emergency medicine residency programs train physicians in the emergent and acute conditions of just about every medical specialty in health care. As a result, emergency physicians are uniquely qualified to handle a full range of adult and pediatric emergencies. In addition, they see every kind of human drama imaginable, often treating multiple patients at a time.
The overall quality of medical care delivered in emergency departments in the United States is excellent, thanks to the uniformly high standards that govern the accreditation of residency programs in emergency medicine. Emergency medicine residencies collaborate openly with shared curricular tools built around a core model of clinical practice, an approach that is fairly unique in medical education. Ranking training programs above others is contrary to the principles of our specialty, although we recognize that certain programs are best suited for certain trainees.
Many factors contribute to a successful residency program, not all of which can be measured or compared. If your target audience is medical students contemplating a career in our field, we would be happy to work with you to identify objective, measurable factors to help students find the best program for their individual needs.
Unfortunately, our organizations, which represent more than 40,000 emergency physicians, could not recommend or encourage participation in the current survey by emergency physicians. We would, however, be happy to meet with you and help to identify the parameters that might better accomplish that purpose. If you are interested, please contact Marjorie Geist at 800-798-1822, ext. 3290.
Alex M. Rosenau, DO, CPE, FACEP
President, American College of
Emergency Physicians
Meaghan Mercer, MD
President, American Academy of Emergency
Medicine Resident and Student Association
Mark Mitchell, DO, FACOEP
President, American College of Osteopathic
Emergency Physicians
Jeffrey N. Love, MD, MSc
President, Council of Emergency Medicine
Residency Directors
Jordan Celeste, MD
President, Emergency Medicine Residents'
cc: Avery Comarow, Health Rankings Editor
Quality Sepsis Care: ACEP's Mission, Advocacy and Research in Action
Posted by dscheid in ACEP Updates, Uncategorized on August 28th, 2014
By Andrew E. Sama, MD, FACEP
With nearly two-thirds of all admitted septic patients presenting to the ED, and with the clear time sensitivity that exists between recognition, treatment, and outcomes, our members are on the front lines to save lives from this frequently fatal disease. In the CY 2015 IPPS rule, in which CMS cited the fact that "that patients admitted through the ED had a 17% lower likelihood of dying from sepsis than when directly admitted," CMS finalized NQF #0500: Early Management Bundle for Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock, which mandated the invasive monitoring of CVP and ScVO2 via the placement of a central line in the ED. However, late on Friday, CMS notified hospitals, that it will suspend data collection for the Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: Management Bundle measure (NQF #0500) until further notice.
Emanuel Rivers, MD, MPH, and his team improved mortality and raised the awareness of the EM community about sepsis through their Early Gold Directed Therapy (EGDT) study in the early 2000s. A few years later, the measure was initially endorsed by the NQF in 2008 without the requirement for a central line for the emergency department. While it is certain that early intervention does reduce mortality, not all elements of the sepsis composite bundle were equally evidence-based. Many studies over the years have demonstrated dramatic improvements in sepsis-related mortality after the implementation of early interventions for septic patients, which included early antibiotic administration, source control, and aggressive fluid resuscitation without invasive monitoring of CVP and ScVO2. One study addressing this, authored by Dr. Alan Jones and colleagues, was conducted at three EDs in the US, and compared two protocols that both included central venous pressure measurement; however, one used lactate clearance and the other used central venous oxygenation monitoring as a way to guide resuscitation. Dr. Jones' 2010 study found no differences in mortality, suggesting that using central venous oxygenation to guide resuscitation may not be necessary.
In 2012 the measure underwent routine NQF maintenance review for re-endorsement in 2012-2013. During those proceedings, under the leadership of David Seaberg, MD, FACEP and myself ACEP commented that central venous pressure (CVP) was not the only reliable measure of intravascular volume. Several members of ACEP's Quality and Performance Committee (QPC) including chair Jeremiah D. Schuur, MD, MHS, FACEP, Michael Phelan, MD, RDMS, FACEP, Todd Slessinger, MD, FACEP, FCCM, FCCP, Christopher Fee, MD, FACEP, and others testified on conference calls and at in-person meetings, that there were equally effective and less invasive methods for monitoring septic patients. Nonetheless, the NQF endorsed the requirement for the central line, noting that they would re-consider if additional evidence warranted it.
Within a few months the Protocolized Care for Early Septic Shock (ProCESS) trial was published on March 18, 2014 and under Dr. Alexander Rosenau's leadership ACEP immediately requested that NQF #0500 undergo an ad hoc review given the impact that this new data would have on this quality measure. After reviewing the data from the ProCESS trial, NQF questioned whether NQF #0500's item 'F', which measures central venous pressure and central venous oxygen saturation, should be retained or removed from the measure. During the review, one of the PIs, Donald Yealy, MD, FACEP engaged in a scientific debate noting that the ProCESS trial enrolled 1,341 patients, with a power to detect a 6-7 percent absolute difference, yet demonstrated no difference in mortality 60-day mortality 90-day mortality, one year mortality, or the need for organ support. The ProCESS also noted no benefit in any outcome when using CVC- guided care and the simpler approaches that stressed early and ongoing care produced the same good outcomes.
CMS, NQF, and others are now also convinced that honing the sepsis bundle is a move forward for our septic patients, with or without invasive monitoring depending on the progression of their disease, their unique circumstances, and the resources available at the ED where they are being treated. As it is ACEP's mission, we will continue to advocate on behalf of our patients presenting with a diagnosis of sepsis to ensure that they receive the highest quality of emergency care. We look forward to continuing to work with the measure developer to ensure that all septic patients receive the timely, effective care they need, and to continue to save lives from this deadly disease.
Dr. Sama is ACEP's Immediate Past President and Chair of the Board of Directors
CMS Delays Implementation of Sepsis Quality Measure
Posted by dscheid in Uncategorized on August 23rd, 2014
In a recent newsletter, the American Hospital Association informed its members of a change by CMS as it relates to data collection for severe sepsis and sepsis shock. Below is the CMS announcement.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is notifying hospitals participating in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program that it will suspend data collection for the Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: Management Bundle measure (NQF #0500) until further notice. This measure was adopted for the FY 2017 payment determination in the CY 2015 IPPS final rule.
CMS continues to believe that this is an important area for measurement given mortality rates that range from 16-49% and that sepsis is one of the top 10 most common principle causes for hospitalizations. Further, through surveillance of early effective treatment of severe sepsis or septic shock, hospitals will not only know where in the sequence of steps to treat severe sepsis and septic shock patients, but also begin to decrease mortality related to sepsis and the costs associated with inefficient care of severe sepsis and septic shock patients. With this measure CMS will gauge if care of severe sepsis and septic shock patients is improving.
This measure was initially endorsed by the NQF in 2008 for the hospital/acute care facility setting and underwent routine NQF maintenance review for re-endorsement in 2013. During the 2013 NQF endorsement proceedings it was noted that should new data be published related to the measure, that the measure would undergo an ad hoc review. With publication of the Protocolized Care for Early Septic Shock (ProCESS) trial in early 2014, NQF #0500 underwent an ad hoc review to discern if the new data would impact the measure as currently designed. After reviewing the data from the ProCESS trial, NQF questioned whether NQF #0500's item 'F', which measures central venous pressure and central venous oxygen saturation, should be retained or removed from the measure. During the review two other trials were identified that might also impact NQF #0500, those trials are the Australian Resuscitation in Sepsis Evaluation Randomized Controlled Trial (ARISE) and The Protocolised Management in Sepsis Trial (ProMISe). After much discussion of the results of the ProCESS trial, the potential impact the ARISE and ProMISe trials may have on the measure, and the recommendations to remove item 'F' from the measure, NQF recommended that measure stewards collaborate with other stakeholders to reach a compromise on NQF #0500's item F. NQF recommended that measure developers collaborate with other stakeholders to reach a compromise on this specific element of NQF #0500 measure.
Given forthcoming research and NQF's recommendations, with potential changes to the measure, CMS will delay data collection for the measure until further notice. The duration of this suspension pending further information from the measure developer has not yet been determined. This delay does not affect the data collection period for any other Hospital IQR Program measures.
Annals audio for July: POSTED!
Posted by David H. Newman, MD in Uncategorized on July 4th, 2014
July's audio/podcast for Annals of EM is now posted here. Highlights:
-Early vs late rhythm analysis in OOHCA
-Ground based EMS transports and complications
-When do sepsis patients become septic? Usually NOT on arrival. Time to change the metric?
-Botulism outbreak
-Diethylene glycol outbreak
-Much, much more!
Enjoy, and email with any comments or questions any time,
Annals Clinical Case: Female With Lower Abdominal Pain and Bleeding
Posted by dscheid in Uncategorized on June 10th, 2014
May 2014, Annals of Emergency Medicine
By Justin McNamee, DO; Nilesh Patel, DO; and Joseph Affortunato, DO
Department of Emergency Medicine
St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center, Paterson, New Jersey
A 26-year-old woman presented to the emergency department, complaining of a 3-day history of lower abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding. She reported positive home pregnancy test results and that her last menstrual period was 17 weeks ago. On examination, the patient appeared comfortable and was afebrile, with a blood pressure of 131/67 mm Hg, pulse rate of 100 beats/min, and respiratory rate of 16 breaths/min.
Click here to read the full case, see the images and get the diagnosis.


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Why is Cryptic installing this game in the Users\Public\Games folder on my Win7 system, which doesn't even exist until the installer runs? How is this a proper procedure. If this is an x86 application, it should, as it always has been, installed in the program files directory... in my case \Program Files (x86)...
To maintain my sanity, I force it to install where it should be installed.
The user's folders are for storing user files, not for running applications!
I consider this to be a bug.
Installing under Program Files will cause you no end of troubles thanks to a feature known as VirtualStore. Basically Vista/7 don't allow programs (normally) to write inside Program Files. This is fine for something fairly static like Word or Firefox, but for something that needs more fluid updating like an MMO this is painful. We try to fix up the folder permissions so this isn't a problem, but it doesn't always work and for reasons that are entirely beyond me it sometimes actually gets reverted. If you would prefer to run from ProgFiles I recommend flagging both the launcher and gameclient programs to run as Administrator, since that will also disable the file system virtualization.


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The project will build 40 youth champions for enhanced policy making in Kenyan on policies that will boost youth empowerment, livelihoods and participation.
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Addressing youth concerns through legislative intervention will provide a sustainable solution and is expected to lead to a youth constituency that is generally more content and one that feels catered for by society. This is bound to lead to a more peaceful and prosperous society in general and in this regard our proposed intervention has the general public as the secondary beneficiaries with the youth being the primary beneficiaries.
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-Creation of 5 Youth Parliamentary Working Groups -24 regional youth consultative forums spread out in all of Kenya's 8 administrative provinces -Interviews with key informants -training in policymaking
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• More responsive and inclusive laws that encompass youth concerns in their design • Continuous dialogue between parliament and Kenya's youth on parliamentary bills and national policies
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Here is a link that might be useful: basic finger puppet body
here's a link that has a number of crocheted finger puppets
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Peace Activists Admit to Role in FBI Burglary That Exposed COINTELPRO
One of the great mysteries of the Vietnam War era has been solved. In 1971, a group of peace activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and lifted files that helped reveal the FBI's elaborate program of illegally spying on political groups. The documents, given to journalists at the time, provided the first hints of a secret counter intelligence program, or COINTELPRO, the FBI's secret program to infiltrate, monitor and disrupt social movements. The burglars called themselves the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI. They were never caught. But decades later, a number of them are coming forward for the first time. The idea for the burglary came from William Davidon, a physics professor and leader of civil disobedience against the Vietnam War. Davidon died last year. Also involved were a social worker named Bob Williamson and John and Bonnie Raines, a married couple with children. Convinced the FBI was infiltrating peace groups, they hatched a plan to stage the break-in on the night of a major championship boxing match. Another of the burglars, Keith Forsyth, described his motivation in a video produced by Retro Report.
Keith Forsyth: "Once I got over the shock of thinking that this was the nuttiest thing I'd ever heard in my life, I'm like, this is a great idea, because we're not going to make any allegations; we're going to take their own paperwork, signed by their own people, including J. Edgar Hoover, and give it to the newspapers. So, let's see you argue with that. I definitely see parallels between [Edward] Snowden's case and our case. What we revealed changed public opinion, which is why the laws were changed. If revealing ourselves is going to get people arguing with each other about what the FBI did then and what the NSA is doing now, I think that's a good thing."
Forsyth was arrested in a separate action months after the burglary by a group of FBI agents who were monitoring the raid of a draft office in Camden, New Jersey. Bob Williamson was also arrested. Their role in the burglary, however, was not revealed until now. Ahead of the burglary, Bonnie Raines cased the office while posing as a college student. While there, she confirmed the office did not have a security system. Raines describes her role in the video.
Bonnie Raines: "I was to call the office and make an appointment as a Swarthmore student doing research on opportunities for women in the FBI. So they gave me an appointment. I tried to disguise myself as best I could, and I went to say goodbye, and I acted confused about where the door was, and that gave me a chance then to check out both rooms and know where the file cabinets were."
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover assigned nearly 200 agents to investigate the burglary –- in particular, they were told to hunt for the mysterious college girl who had come to the office. But the case was closed when the statute of limitations expired five years later. The story is told in a new book by Betty Medsger, a former Washington Post reporter who received the documents from the burglars. Three other burglars have chosen to remain anonymous.
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The Supreme Court has halted same-sex marriages in Utah. Nearly 1,000 LGBT couples have gotten married since a federal judge struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage late last month. But Monday's decision puts those unions in limbo, while Utah defends the ban before an appeals court. The case could end up before the Supreme Court.
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A former high school football player who raped a 16-year-old girl in Steubenville, Ohio, has been released from juvenile prison less than a year after his conviction. Ma'lik Richmond received a year-long sentence last March. A second teenager convicted in the case, Trent Mays, is serving a two-year sentence. The case drew national attention following the emergence of images and social media postings from the night of the attack.
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