Packing the Bags
Posted by WhiteCoat on January 9, 2009
It’s been a wild ride, but the airplane has come to a complete stop and the ride has come to an end.
This is my last post on WhiteCoat Rants.
Even though this blog will go dormant, I’m going to hang around.
I hooked up with EP Monthly Magazine and effective today, I’m going to be blogging at their site. So stop by and check out my new digs.
I’ll pick up at WhiteCoat’s Call Room (http://www.epmonthly.com/whitecoat) where I left off here. I’ve already got about a dozen posts waiting to go.
Hope to see you there. Picture credit here
UPDATE
Thanks to everyone for the good wishes!
Check out posts on the new site on topics including:
“United FraudCare“
Peer Review
Radical Ideas to Improve the House of Medicine #3
Essential Medical Items
How NOT to Heat Your Home This Winter
Patient B said
Wow, you just gave me a shock. Now I need to go to the ER
As a recent reader of your blog, I’m glad you will be around. As a consumer of healthcare, I’ve learned a lot about it from reading your blog and will continue to do so. Thanks.
Tom B. said
How about that! I just found you, and you’re leaving already!
Congratulations on the new opportunity with EP Monthly! Looking forward to checking out your new digs.
paws said
Don’t scare me like that – especially before I’ve had my first cup of coffee! Here’s wishing you all the best on your new venture! See you at the new site.
Nurse K said
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Sorry, I’ve seen a few blogs go to the land of the boring after they ended up on sites like this. What makes a medical blog “fun” are the different specialties represented and the fact that you can sorta choose your own audience based on where you comment, etc…
You know me better than that by now.
Braden said
sad day.
rlbates said
Good luck to you. I’ll follow you at your new site.
William said
Good luck with the new venture.
William sends.
The Happy Hospitalist said
How about that. Do I have to behave myself at your new site?
cjguttormson57 said
I seriously started screaming on the phone to my husband when I read the first part of your blog! We are your biggest fans and I pretty much crapped my pants thinking you were seriously leaving. And then I continued reading, and the heart rate went back to normal
Thanks for NOT leaving us for real. I don’t think I could handle it. Your rants keep me sane when I come home from the hospital. Seriously.
Esther said
How can you leave us like this? How do you sleep at night?
Oh, okay, but this EP Monthly says it is monthly. Does that mean you will only write a monthly rant?
VETO. said
No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no.
What will become of all your snark? Funny anecdotes bitching about patients? Pictures of stupid people?
Matt H said
All the best at your new blog-spot. I’ll be over there to read your posts – I’ve enjoyed them a great deal over the last year or so.
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Bianca Castafiore said
Have a great time. Like everyone else, we’ll follow you there.
Oh, and here’s hoping that the “ED if you’re WhiteCoat” trope might die a quiet, painless death en route…
La Belle et Bonne Bianca Castafiore and The Retired Educator
scalpel said
Congratulations. Don’t go changing.
911doc said
congratulations doc. you deserve it. obtw my rant about your article was not directed at you but i know you know that, in fact i was only partially sure it was you writing because it seemed so, well, nice. really glad you will have a wider audience now.
best,
me
rn90 said
’tis indeed a dark, dark day in Bedlam….
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Are you sure that The Peel/JCAHO Associates haven’t taken you hostage somewehere to “keep you quiet” & this will be some Imposter writing whilst under Their control…..Hhhmmm….Give us a sign if it is
Your wit & reality checks have brought a smile many times to a spirit that was WEARY after an especially grueling shift, for that I thank you.
You will be missed.
hmpgh! said
I am not happy, Dr. Whitecoat. Just wanted you to know that. Yes, you will still be around. But it won’t be the same. Hrumph. I do not like change.
GuitarGirlRN said
Oh, MAN. Why am I always the last to know? Why?
Guess I’ll see ya over at your new digs!
xoxo
GGRN
Frank Drackman said
Who Cares!!! Your Blog Sucks, only stumbled upon it cause the titles almost identical to a great Porn site…Big waste of bandwidth if you ask me. One random sentence from one of my posts has more entertainment value than every one of yours combined…Thanks for linking to me though…
Frank
Strong One said
Long time fan and reader. Congratulations with the move. It sounds like nothing but a good thing. I think we all are hoping you won’t change!
Looking forward to the new gig.
ERP said
Congrats – now you get PAID to blog!!!!
SeaSpray said
LOL!! Ha ha! I panicked when I read it because you are one of my all time favorite bloggers …when I’m in your blog.
Anyway…as soon as I saw the link to EP Monthly… no flies settled on me… I was outa here and over there in a shot..hence my comments there and not here…because I didn’t come back here.
Glad you have both though.
So..go break a leg over there…or something like that.
Congratulations!
mojitogirl said
DON’T GOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
but if you must, best of luck! Just throw us a bone every so often…..
anonymous said
why did they pick ep as a name? it makes me think of electrophysiology?
what’s the matter with good old fashioned er? i can understand why some might not be happy with ed. but ep? already taken.
The name is actually short for “Emergency Physician’s Monthly” magazine.
Us emergency docs are out of luck.
“ED” makes people think of a talking horse or of Viagra
“EP” makes people think of cardiology
ER … don’t get me started on that one.
Ten out of Ten said
Belated congrats. Looking forward to reading you on the can.
Nicole Beaufort said
Congrats on the new gig. Looks like EP Monthly has an eye for talent. I’ll have to change my bookmark.
Veto said
Miss the old you. Wish you’d come back.
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