Originally from Queens, New York City, Sumit graduated with a BA in Biology from Binghamton University and a medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. He is a current emergency medicine resident at the University of Maryland. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, writing, spending time with his wife and pup Olivia, photography, listening to old records, and thinking up ways to help improve medical education, Emergency Medicine, and the world. He can be followed at his blog www.sumitpatel.io, on Twitter @S_P_MD & on Instagram @SSP_MD.
Equal Pay in the Emergency Department
Equal pay for equal work effects women, men and families. In his piece for Medscape, friend of FemInEM, Sumit Patel, MD, writes about why the gender pay gap matters to him. Let me begin with a story about two young physicians, Zoe…