BeatMap
An animated heart with a live EKG that shows normal conduction and the common arrhythmias in plain language. Built for the moment a patient asks what atrial fibrillation actually is.
Open BeatMap
Columbus, Ohio
M. Scott Cardone, MD
Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine
I am a dual board certified emergency medicine and internal medicine physician. I practice in the emergency department and on the hospital wards, build software that helps patients understand their own care, and am writing a book about why admitted patients wait days in emergency department hallways for a hospital bed.
Board certified, Emergency Medicine (ABEM)
Board certified, Internal Medicine (ABIM)
The Ohio State University, EM/IM residency, Chief Resident 2021 to 2022
Licensed in Ohio and Hawaii
About
A physician who works at both ends of the hospital
I trained in the combined Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine program at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and served as chief resident during my final year, from 2021 to 2022. That training is rare, and it shapes how I practice. I see the patient in the first minutes of an emergency and I also see what happens after admission, when the pace slows and the decisions get longer.
Today I am an attending emergency physician with Genesis Emergency Physicians in Zanesville, Ohio, and an attending hospitalist with MedOne Healthcare Partners in Columbus. I sit on the emergency department steering committee and the AI implementation committee at Genesis, and I am certified as emergency ultrasound faculty.
Outside the hospital I run Cardone Medical Consulting, LLC, the company behind everything on this page: the patient education apps, the Regulus Health concierge practice, my writing, and my expert witness work.
- ResidencyCombined Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, 2017 to 2022. Chief Resident, 2021 to 2022.
- Medical schoolThe Ohio State University College of Medicine, 2017.
- UndergraduateVanderbilt University, B.A. Neuroscience and B.A. Philosophy, 2013.
- CertificationsAmerican Board of Emergency Medicine. American Board of Internal Medicine. Emergency Ultrasound Faculty.
- LicensureOhio and Hawaii. Additional state licensure available as needed.
- MembershipsAmerican College of Emergency Physicians. American College of Physicians. Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.
Apps
Tools I built because my patients needed them
Each of these started as something I wanted to show a patient at the bedside. They are free, they run in any browser, and they are coming to the App Store.
CribSheet
A simple, private baby tracker for the newborn weeks: feeds, sleep, diapers, pumping, and growth charts plotted against WHO standards. It syncs between both parents' phones and works offline.
Open CribSheetOptometry Visualizer
Enter a glasses prescription and see the world the way that person sees it without correction, from a Snellen chart to a full landscape. A teaching tool, not a diagnostic one.
Open Optometry Visualizer
Regulus Health
Concierge medicine for men, opening in Dublin, Ohio
Regulus Health is the practice I am building for the men who hold everything else together. It is direct-pay membership medicine with no insurance in the room: primary care, hormone and metabolic health, and same-day care for the minor emergencies that otherwise mean a night in my emergency department. The practice is scheduled to open in 2027 and the interest list is open now.
Visit regulushealth.com
The book
Boarded Up
Why Patients Die in the Lobbies of America's Best Hospitals
Every night in American emergency departments, patients who have already been admitted to the hospital wait in hallways, lobbies, and parking lots for inpatient beds that do not open. The practice is called boarding. It delays treatment, worsens outcomes, exhausts the people delivering care, and costs lives, and most people outside medicine have never heard the word.
Boarded Up is my account of how boarding happens and why it keeps getting worse. It begins at the bedside, with the patients and clinicians who live inside the crisis, then follows the trail backward through EMTALA and Medicare's rules, state policy, hospital economics, the collapse of primary care, and the fear that governs medical decisions. The argument is simple. Boarding is not the fault of bad people. It is the predictable result of a system that rewards the wrong behaviors and punishes the right ones, which means it can be fixed.
- How laws like EMTALA and Medicare's three-midnight rule block patient flow
- How the collapse of primary care sends patients to the emergency department
- How fear of lawsuits and bureaucratic metrics distort medical decisions
- What it would take to align hospitals with patient flow and real outcomes
The manuscript is in progress and fully referenced, written for readers inside and outside of medicine. Publication details will appear here.
Tell me when it is out
Expert witness
Emergency medicine and hospital medicine case review
I review cases and provide expert opinion in matters involving emergency department care and inpatient hospital medicine. Because I practice in both settings every month, I can speak to the standard of care from the moment of triage through admission and discharge, including the handoffs between them where many cases turn.
- Standard of care review for emergency department and hospitalist care
- Medical record review and written opinions
- Deposition and trial testimony
- Plaintiff and defense engagements
- Emergency department boarding, throughput, and delayed admission
- Point of care ultrasound in the emergency department
I maintain an active clinical practice, which is the foundation of every opinion I give. My current curriculum vitae and fee schedule are available on request.
Request a consultation
Send a brief description of the matter, the venue, and any deadlines. I respond to attorney inquiries within two business days and will confirm there is no conflict before reviewing any records.
expert@cardonemed.com
Locum tenens
Emergency department and hospitalist coverage
I am available for locum tenens work in emergency medicine and hospital medicine. I am board certified in both, which means a single physician can cover the emergency department one block and the hospitalist service the next without a change in credentialing. I am comfortable in community and critical access settings as well as high-volume departments, and I am certified as emergency ultrasound faculty.
I am currently licensed in Ohio and Hawaii and am willing to obtain additional state licensure for the right assignment. I hold an active DEA registration and can provide a current curriculum vitae, references, and credentialing documents on request.
Inquire about coverage
Send the facility, specialty, shift structure, dates, and whether the assignment is direct or through an agency. My hourly rate is provided on inquiry, and I respond within two business days.
locums@cardonemed.com
Get in touch
For questions about the apps, Regulus Health, Boarded Up, speaking, expert witness work, or locum tenens coverage, email is the fastest way to reach me.
scott@cardonemed.com