Dr Edwin Leap

Dear docs, don’t be surprised when you lose your job

19th May 2020

COVID-19 — I’m so tired of typing that. Tired of talking about it and seeing it on the news. Tired of that big, red,…

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3rd March 2020

I saw a patient recently who was in her 80s. She was a very active and healthy woman who enjoys the outdoors. I asked her, …

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18th February 2020

There is a popular trope going around suggesting that somehow doctors lack the compassion of our nursing colleagues. We see…

29th May 2019

There are a lot of unhappy physicians in a lot of bad situations. I know because I write for them, and they write to me. …

12th February 2019

I was working a few days ago and pulled a tooth. Mind you, it’s not something I do with any regularity. However, it was a…

1st February 2019

My friends and family used to say that I was born 30 years old. I get it. From the time I was young, I was controlled, risk…

13th September 2018

There’s an ugly undercurrent that sometimes shows up in the emergency department; indeed all over the world of medicine. I…