Every medical page on this website is written for patients making a decision under pressure, and reviewed by the board-certified emergency physicians who treat those patients. This page explains who reviews the content, what that review involves, and the standards we hold it to.
The Arlington ER Clinical Team – the board-certified emergency physicians and experienced emergency nurses who staff this facility around the clock. The people reviewing what you read here are the same people who would treat you if you walked in tonight.
That matters more than it might sound. A great deal of medical content online is written by people who have never had to explain a diagnosis to a frightened parent at three in the morning, or tell someone their test results were normal and watch them wonder whether that was worth the money. Every page on this site is reviewed by clinicians who do both regularly.
We publish under the team name rather than as individual authors. Emergency medicine is genuinely a team specialty: no single physician covers a 24-hour facility, and the guidance on these pages reflects the collective standards this facility practises by rather than one person’s preference. Content is reviewed against those shared standards and the current guidance our specialty follows.
If you would like to know more about the clinicians who staff Arlington ER, our About Us page describes the team and the facility, and you are welcome to ask about the physician treating you at any point during your visit.
On many websites that phrase means very little. Here it means a clinician read the page against these five checks before it was published, and reads it again on a schedule afterward.
Symptoms, timelines and warning signs are checked against current emergency medicine practice, not repeated from other websites.
Every page names the signs that mean calling 911 instead of driving, and says so plainly rather than burying it.
Where a clinic or your own physician would serve you better and cost less, the page says so. That rule is applied even when it costs us the visit.
We describe treatments by category, never by drug name. Choosing what you take is a decision for the physician who has examined you.
Medical terms are explained the first time they appear. Nobody should need a dictionary to work out whether to come in.
Every medical page carries the date it was last reviewed, at the foot of the page. If it looks old, it is old, and you should weigh it accordingly.
Medical pages are reviewed at least annually, and sooner whenever something changes that affects what a page tells you to do.
Three things trigger an earlier review. A change in the guidance our specialty follows. A change in what this facility offers, such as new equipment or a new service. And feedback from our own clinicians, who occasionally notice that a page does not match the questions patients are actually asking them.
The date at the foot of each page is generated automatically from that page’s own record, not typed in by hand. It cannot be nudged forward to make a page look fresher than it is, which is a genuine weakness of how most sites display review dates.
Seasonal pages get particular attention. Guidance on flu, on heat illness, and on the conditions that cluster in North Texas at certain times of year is reviewed before the season it applies to rather than after it.
It cannot examine you, and it does not know your history. Everything here is general information written for a general reader, and it is not a substitute for being seen by a clinician who can put hands on you and look at your record.
We are deliberate about this because a well-written medical page can feel more authoritative than it deserves to. If a page here says a symptom is usually harmless and yours does not feel usual, trust yourself over the page and come in. People are frequently right about their own bodies in ways an article cannot account for.
Nothing on this website is a diagnosis, and no page here should be used to decide against seeking care. It is written to help you judge urgency, not to replace an examination.
If you are having a medical emergency, call 911. Do not spend time reading first.
If you believe something on this site is inaccurate, out of date, or unclear enough to be misleading, we want to know. Email info@arlingtoner.com with the page and what you think is wrong.
Corrections that affect what a reader would do are made as a priority and the page is re-dated. Smaller corrections are folded into the next scheduled review. Either way, someone clinical looks at it rather than a marketing team deciding on their own.
This applies to clinicians and to patients equally. If you are a physician, a nurse, or a pharmacist and you see something here that you would not have written, please say so.
Arlington ER is open every hour of every day, with board-certified emergency physicians on site and no appointment ever needed. If something on this site has left you unsure whether to come in, call us and ask.