Pay Attention
This is the fourth and final episode of our Women in EM series. We’ve heard personal stories of lived experiences and microaggressions, learned about the “leaky pipeline” that leads to a dearth of women in ....
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Mind The Gap
Did you know that women physicians make 72 cents on every dollar their male counterparts make?! According to the New York Times, this leads to women earning about $2 million less than men over their ....
The Leaky Pipeline
This is the second episode in our series on women in emergency medicine. In the first episode, My Role in Doctor, women physicians shared their stories with us and we saw several themes emerge. Gender ....
My Role Is Doctor
This is the first episode in a multi-part series on women in emergency medicine. Being a woman in medicine, and our specialty specifically, is both challenging and rewarding. Over the next several episodes, we’ll explore ....
It isn’t just our problem: ED crowding part 2
In our last episode, we discussed several factors that lead to emergency department crowding, as well as the consequences for patients and providers, as presented in a recent commentary in NEJM Catalyst. We continue the ....
Victims of our own success: ED crowding part 1
If you’ve been in the emergency department recently, either as an employee or as a patient, you’ve undoubtedly seen the effects of ED crowing - busy waiting rooms, long wait times, and delays in care, ....
It could happen on my shift
General EM physicians are well trained to care for kids, and most of us care for them regularly in the ED. Usually it’s for common things like viral upper respiratory infections or playground injuries. But ....
Kids and COVID: the PERN study
It’s time for another COVID-19 update! This time from PERN, the international Pediatric Emergency Research Network. Dr. Nate Kuppermann joins us to talk about a recently published study on kids with COVID. This multinational, prospective ....
2021: Looking back and moving forward
Happy New Year! Well, 2021 may not have been quite the year we hoped for, and 2022 is off to a bit of a rough start with the omicron variant. But we’ve been fortunate to ....
Changemakers
As Emergency Physicians, we are well equipped to deal with patients’ acute medical needs, but we often find ourselves without the knowledge or time to deal with many of our patients’ other needs. For social, ....