Do you see what I see: A mother's plea.

There is sometimes dissonance between the medical services that the general public expects an ED to provide and the acute critical care that emergency clinicians hope to provide. One explanation for this is that the ED is both a territory and a meeting place for a cornucopia of clinicians, some of whom are not ED clinicians themselves. Roles are sometimes ambiguous and location-specific.

Between principle and compromise: We are all meat in someone else's sandwich.

Clinical leadership and workforce management are high profile topics in many recent healthcare journals and frequently the focus of discussion in this sectors dynamic environment. Emergency physicians, like their cousins in other medical specialties, are required to work collaboratively within an increasingly complex system in order to optimise the clinical outcomes of their patients. This article presents a reflective analysis using a fictional character, Ulysses, who encounters traps and potholes in his journey to clinical leadership and management enlightenment.

Gatekeeper, shopkeeper, scientist, coach?

Health Workforce Australia is proposing to further extend the list of practitioners who are eligible to prescribe to include physiotherapists, pharmacists and psychologists.