ACEP Now publishes a selection of content ranging from association news (i.e., what’s happening inside the College), news stories impacting the specialty of emergency medicine, medical educational content from our amazing columnists, case reports from our readers, and opinion pieces from ACEP members. Each year, we review the analytics to determine the most popular items.
By leaps and bounds, emergency physicians are most interested in the annual emergency physician compensation report. Although our 2024-2025 version achieved over 15,000 views, I would encourage you to check out the current one for 2025, which was commissioned by ACEP and offers up-to-date insights. It confirms the pay gap for women and academics, and suggests that rural emergency medicine pays better than we expected.
Our second most-read article (6,080 views) was an approach to a condition most emergency physicians would rather avoid, especially if you don’t have an ear, nose, and throat (ENT) physician in-house. This column by Anton Helman, MD, on post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage comes highly recommended. Make sure you have topical epinephrine, tranexamic acid, and maybe even desmopressin available in a pinch.
Another bit of medical education (5,665 views), which explores risk management, provides four warnings for the patient you want to discharge who remains tachycardic at the end of your evaluation. Before discharging a patient with unexplained tachycardia, consider these four conditions: occult sepsis, pulmonary embolism, silent myocardial ischemia, and acute cardiomyopathy.
This tribute (3,384 views) to the late Greg Henry, MD, comes complete with Henry-isms such as, “When a patient bounces back, they are giving you another chance to get the diagnosis right.” As the previous article on discharge tachycardia would attest, as would many an emergency physician, this aphorism is spot-on. Working in Texas, I love citing a similar metaphor: “Keep turning over rocks until you find the snake.”
Last, although this wasn’t one of ACEP Now’s most-viewed articles from 2025, I’ll take some editorial privilege and encourage you to read this article profiling Dr. Elsburgh Clarke who entered emergency medicine in the early years of the specialty and brought along his camera to document the journey. As “a part of a generation of physicians who shaped the specialty,” it’s a heartwarming read of a physician who is still in love with emergency medicine.
Dr. Dark is assistant professor of emergency medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, on the Board of Directors of Doctors for America, and Medical Editor in Chief of ACEP Now.
