WORK focuses on how we do our jobs as FemInEMs. We will discuss gender dynamics in the emergency department, communication challenges and effective strategies to be successful in workplace.
“Ugh, another ‘vag’ bleeder in room 10, I guess that’s mine.” His preceding exasperated sigh was not subtle. As a medical student on my emergency medicine rotation, I watched the tired resident slowly will himself out of the chair and…
I was inspired by FIX 2017. This isn’t a unique situation to me but one that’s important for me to state because it was unexpected. I figured I would go and listen and hear a lot of things I already…
What if? A few months ago some of the Division of Aging team took a road trip with me to Ft. Wayne, Indiana to see firsthand the cool stuff we have been hearing about a community based organization called Aging…
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…
Kelly Quinley, MD 
Anand Swaminathan, MD, MPH 
Jennifer Walthall, MD, MPH 
Arlene Chung, MD, MACM 
Jennifer Beck-Esmay, MD 
Aditi Joshi MD, MSc, FACEP 
Carolyn McClanahan, MD 
Elyse Portillo, MD, MPH