About the author and the site
Adam Broughton, MSc, PA-C
Amor Fati - “Love your fate”
Whether it was fate or destiny or blind choice or coincidence, you are here at my site dedicated to the brave, amazing, benevolent, and sometimes over-worked and over-burden emergency medicine workers and providers.
I am a 15-year veteran of EMS starting as an EMT and then working clinically as a Physician Assistant in and around Boston, MA. I was drawn to the study of the human body out of a fascination and into emergency medicine as the place where I thought I could have the greatest impact in serving others through my knowledge of human physiology and clinical pathophysiology.
I am a student who never wanted to stop learning so I also became a teacher. First, of undergraduates in anatomy, and now an assistant professor at the graduate level. Along the way, I have also done personal training, consulting, and my coaching my favorite sport, basketball with my children.
I aspire to be a renaissance man and father and husband following and modeling passions in health, fitness, coaching, teaching, learning, mindfulness, carpentry, stoicism, writing, and anywhere fate leads me. Learning to love where myself, my gifts, and where I am has been a process, and I hope to lead and inspire you along your path.
AN EXPLANATION OF THIS WEBSITE
This site acts as the following:
My peripheral brain - a place to offload knowledge for quick reference later
A group of valuable reminders/recipes/templates for specific patient presentations
A way to help me think fast and document faster (by putting in the slow thinking prior to shift)
My (selfish) expression of teaching to learn better and elevate my quality of care.
Reflect on the current standard of care
Out (crowd) -source difficult clinical questions
Blog my ideas for improving EM care.