The attending doctors there speak Mandarin or Cantonese, two major Chinese dialects.
Test results from a special laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba, will be released to the public after being analyzed by attending doctors, Dr. MacPherson said.
"We went into emergency medicine because we know it's crazy — you never know what's going to come through the door," said Dr. Comilla Sasson, one of two attending doctors in the emergency room that night.
But finding help may be becoming easier, thanks to geriatric care managers, who can take on some of the higher-level care duties that home health aides do not cover, like attending doctors' appointments or evaluating nursing homes.
She also pumped the nurses and interns assigned to intensive care for information about Mr. Richmond's case, then used that information to go back and challenge the attending doctors.
On the advice of the attending doctors, I tried to be more concrete and matter of fact with psychotic patients, more empathetic with depressed patients and more authoritarian while working in a volatile emergency room.
At the University of Maryland, a clinicopathological conference focused on historical figures has been an annual event for the past 19 years; attending doctors have reviewed the case records of Florence Nightingale, Alexander the Great, Mozart, Beethoven and Edgar Allan Poe.
