Global MedOps Command

06/01/2026

The course is live.

Four hours of accredited CME. AI in Emergency Medicine.

FDA classification. Documentation standards. Override protocols. How to teach the standard to your residents.

This is the framework the ED was missing. Built by a clinician who has been in it, not by a vendor who hasn't.

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05/30/2026

Most crews skip the debrief.

The call ends, the rig gets restocked, the report gets filed. The ten minutes that could close the gap between what happened and what should have happened gets absorbed by the next call, the documentation backlog, or plain exhaustion.

That loss compounds. The near-miss that doesn't get reviewed becomes the pattern that repeats.

The debrief is not a blame session. It is the mechanism by which a crew learns from a real call without a patient paying for the lesson. It takes three things: a team that is honest, a leader who separates performance from identity, and ten minutes.

Most departments have the first two. The ten minutes is a cultural decision.

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05/28/2026

Just published in Doximity Op-Med: "Why I Open an AI After Difficult Cases."

The patient was 67. Chest pain. Atypical. The ECG was nondiagnostic. First troponin negative. The AI decision-support tool in our EHR called him low-risk and suggested discharge.

I didn't send him home.

Four-hour troponin: elevated. 90% LAD occlusion. Cath lab that night.

The algorithm didn't fail. It returned a probability estimate based on its training set. The problem is that the clinical literature had already moved past where it was trained — and I didn't know that until I checked.

There's a name for what happens when a probability estimate becomes a clinical decision. Automation bias. Emergency medicine is the highest-volume, highest-fatigue, highest-stakes environment in the hospital. We are the specialty most designed to be affected by it.

Read the full piece: https://www.doximity.com/articles/511702d6-ac7d-439b-af1c-5dc14989f73c

05/25/2026

Today we remember those who never made it home. Memorial Day is not simply a long weekend or the beginning of summer — it is a reminder written in sacrifice. Across generations, brave men and women from every branch of our Armed Forces stepped forward, carried the burden, and gave everything for people they would never meet and freedoms they would never personally enjoy.

Their names, stories, and sacrifices matter.

We honor the fallen. We remember their families. We remain grateful for the cost of liberty.

“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.” — John 15:13 (NASB)

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Take a look at what someone created with ChatGPT.

05/24/2026

I got over 50 reactions on my posts last week! Thanks everyone for your support! 💪💪

05/21/2026

Take the 5 minutes to watch this video that will save you time and energy when transferring patients.

EMTALA says the transfer must be 'appropriate.' That word is doing enormous work.This Clinical Brief goes beyond EMTALA compliance as a checkbox — into what ...

05/19/2026

I just published this Observation Unit article on Medium this morning - check it out. No paywall.

I’ve seen observation used as a pressure valve, a dumping ground, and a throughput weapon. Only one of those is defensible.

05/15/2026

If you're an EM director, charge nurse, or aspiring service-line leader — and your hospital is talking about building or fixing an Observation Unit — I wrote this for you.

"ED Observation Units: The Operational Playbook" is a no-fluff, 90-minute read with the protocols, staffing math, metrics dashboards, and pitch deck I've used to build OBS units in two health systems.

What's inside:
– The 6 features of a real OBS unit (and how to audit yours)
– Sample protocols for chest pain, syncope, TIA, asthma, pyelo
– Staffing models and the financial case
– Metrics dashboard you can copy
– The 3 mistakes that kill OBS units in year one

Available now on Gumroad: https://shermerautomation.gumroad.com/l/pckuh

Built from 25+ years of running EDs, not from a textbook.

05/13/2026

I encourage you to start trialing software/AI platforms to make your job easier. The ambient scribe voice recognition platforms have gotten really good but you still need to make sure your chart says what you mean for it to say!

05/13/2026

Question for the EM and hospital-medicine community —

If you've built an Observation Unit in the last 5 years (or tried to), what was the single biggest obstacle?

I'm seeing the same patterns over and over in the consults I do:

– Nursing staffing model (shared vs dedicated)
– Physical space and IT build-out
– EM vs hospitalist ownership fight
– Order-set adoption and protocol drift
– Admin metrics that don't reward the work

Drop your story below. I'll compile the responses into a follow-up post and credit anyone who wants attribution. This is the conversation that doesn't happen enough at the conference circuit, and I think the field benefits when we share what actually went wrong.