the ER edit

Four joint replacement patients in Nashville received potassium phosphate instead of the intended spinal anesthetic, mepivacaine, and the investigation shows just how many opportunities there were for someone or...

Niels Högel was an ICU nurse who deliberately created medical emergencies in patients and then jumped into their resuscitations, reportedly chasing the recognition that came with saving them. We break down the...

Nurses! You Need this book! pick up a copy of "Chart Like a Lawyer" here: https://amzn.to/4guzGvz We are reading some of the wildest things nurses and doctors have actually put in patient charts, from unhinged triage...

Recorded as the Lindsay Clancy jury began deliberating, we break down the final days of the trial and the question at the center of everything: criminal responsibility. We get into the defense experts, the claimed...

We’re revisiting some of the ER stories we still cannot believe actually happened. A toe in a sock, a full urinal to the body, nurse intuition that proved right, career ending mistakes that thankfully were not career...

We’re breaking down the Lindsay Clancy trial through the lens we actually know: ER nursing, trauma care, and mental health. We get into the GCS of three, 82 degree core temperature, spinal cord injury, reported thyroid...

This week, the Whisper Line takes over the entire episode. We read your anonymous submissions cold, including a hospital parking lot affair, a necrotic foot that fell off inside a shoe, a baby nurse’s terrifying first...

An 18 month old boy was pronounced dead after a drowning and reportedly found breathing in the hospital morgue nearly five and a half hours later. We break down what pediatric codes, agonal breathing, time of death...

Nurse intuition is real, and this week we are talking about the gut feeling nurses get when something is wrong before the numbers catch up. We get into rapid responses, triage, patient advocacy, home health stories...

Do nurses really eat their young? This week we are talking about nurse bullying, new grad anxiety, preceptors, ER orientation, and the difference between being challenged because someone wants you to grow and being...

We’re breaking down the Taylor Parker case and Maternal Instinct from the ER nurse side of the story. We talk fake pregnancy, the hospital exam that changed everything, HIPAA, Code Pink, body cam footage, nurse...

This week, we’re talking medical malpractice lawsuits, nurse depositions, charting, and the legal fear that lives in the back of every nurse’s brain. Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley go through reported malpractice...

This week, we are getting into medical true crime and the cases that make nurses ask a thousand follow up questions. Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley talk through Lucy Letby, Charles Cullen, Harold Shipman, a German...

This week on The ER Edit, Caitlin and Karlie talk about the sex injuries that end up in the emergency room, from cock rings and foreign objects to retained tampons, penile fractures, priapism, and the ER stories...

This episode is all about the hospital superstitions and spooky ER stories nurses swear are real. We talk full moons, never saying quiet, deaths and traumas coming in threes, haunted hospital rooms, weird call lights...