Michael Kirsch, MD – An Emergency Physician Basher Without A Clue

The nice thing about the internet, about having a blog, and about having a Twitter account is that even us peons have the ability to combat censorship. Here’s a good example. Self-described “insider” and “whistleblower” Michael Kirsch, MD, who blogs at “MD Whistleblower,” has a penchant for bashing emergency physicians even though his commentary shows that his “inside knowledge” is full of misinformation. You can be the judge of Dr. Kirsch’s veracity, but my opinion is that he is unethically spewing his inside misinformation as fact. So I called him out on it. KevinMD re-posted a blog post that Dr. Kirsch made about emergency physicians. Dr. Kirsch’s post initially asked “Are Emergency Rooms Admitting Too Many Patients?” I responded with a longwinded comment. My comment dripped with snark as I pointed out multiple errors in Dr. Kirsch’s assertions and multiple bits of misinformation he asserted were “fact.” I spent about an hour writing it because I thought it was important to show everyone who reads the post how Dr. Kirsch was being unethical as he tried to aggrandize his “inside knowledge” of a specialty he didn’t even practice. Within a few hours, my comment had twelve “upvotes.” This morning, I woke to an e-mail from a reader telling me that my comment had been deleted from Kevin MD’s blog. When I went to check, I saw the following: So I wro...
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