Why We Shouldn’t Teach Doctors to be Well
My nightmare is waking up to a phone call in the middle of the night with a frantic chief resident on the other end of the line telling me that one of our residents is dead. I am a lifelong…
My nightmare is waking up to a phone call in the middle of the night with a frantic chief resident on the other end of the line telling me that one of our residents is dead. I am a lifelong…
Valerie Dobiesz, MD, MPH is Director of Internal Programs for STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and core faculty at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative where she co-leads a program on education in conflict. According to World…
Telehealth, using video to have an acute medical care visit, puts some of the power of choice back into our patient’s hands. To best frame telehealth and its use cases, the NQF published a report in 2017, outlining the following…
Emergency medicine is tough. The world expects perfection, and we know perfection isn’t possible. Complicated patients and a dysfunctional health care system make matters worse. The sad outcome is that too many physicians are unhappy, burned out, and the rate…
Dr. Kelli O’Laughlin is one of the women I most respect and admire on the planet. In addition to being a FemInEM and FIX17 speaker, she is my cousin. At our family dinners, she shows me how to balance being…
Congratulations to Dr. Michelle Romeo for her winning submission to the Essentials of Emergency Medicine Fellowship Blog Competition. Check out her winning blog post on “Equity” below! Would you believe it if I told you that by having me, a…
Janelle Bludorn, PA-C is an emergency medicine physician assistant, serves on the Board of Directors for SEMPA (Society of Emergency Medicine PAs) and is a faculty member at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. In her FIX18 talk,…
Dr. Sanson shares a reflection on her experience speaking with Dr. Pensa at FIX18. This past October, I had the privilege of speaking alongside Dr. Gita Pensa at FemInEM’s FIX18 conference. Dr. Pensa unflinchingly shared her ordeal of living within…