Browsing: Editorial

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Editor's Forum , Wellness , Workplace , Personal

Editor's Forum: The Heart of EM

1/24/2020 Priyanka Lauber, DO
Have an EM story to share? "I want to hear about your struggles, your failures, and your triumphs. Even if you tried and failed, I welcome it," says EM Resident Editor-in-Chief Priyanka Lauber.
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Editor's Forum , EMRA Board of Directors

Editor's Forum: “Speaker, we have an election.”

12/16/2019 Priyanka Lauber, DO
New EM Resident Editor-in-Chief Priyanka Lauber reviews her history with EMRA and looks forward to her new role.
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Editor's Forum

EMRA-fied and Proud: 45 Years of Resident-Driven Publications

10/10/2019 Tommy Eales, DO
As EMRA celebrates 45 years, Dr. Tommy Eales reflects on the clinical publications that have helped EMRA make its members better doctors.
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Editor's Forum

Hahnemann Closure: The Worst GME Debacle in U.S. History

8/12/2019 Tommy Eales, DO
It's time for every medical student, resident, and practicing physician to stand up against ongoing threats to GME funding. The devastating closure of Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia sho
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Opinion-Editorial

Cure Sometimes, Comfort Always

4/11/2019 Castrenze Fricano
Sometimes the best on-shift lessons come not from being on the front lines of a code - but from being the shoulder a patient's family leans on.
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Editor's Forum

Unsafe Nursing Ratios Incapacitate EDs, Endanger Patients

4/8/2019 Tommy Eales, DO
Decreasing the nurse-to-patient ratio immediately increases the frequency of medication errors and all-cause mortality for all patients in the ED — not only the critically ill ones who just arrived.
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Opinion-Editorial

Guns, Politics, and the Emergency Department

2/6/2019 Noah Berland, MD, MS
What is our role as physicians in confronting the intersection of politics and health? We must be willing to engage in honest dialogue and consider politics as a part of medicine. Enter the debate ove
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Editor's Forum

Price Transparency in the ED: A Murky Future

2/5/2019 Tommy Eales, DO
There's a monumental problem in how patients are billed for emergency visits. It's called surprise billing - and it's definitely not a good surprise.
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Opinion-Editorial , Medical Students

When the 'Steaks' Are High

12/15/2018 Joseph Schreiner
A critical patient, a lack of ready resources, a panicked crowd pleading for help - it was all there, in the middle of an Outback Steakhouse, when Dr. Joe's love of medicine was put to the test.
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Editor's Forum , Palliative Care

Quality of Life(Saving) Care in the ED

10/16/2018 Tommy Eales, DO
With current trends toward increased boarding time in the ED, emergency care has become a multi-stage event that encompasses a lot more than procedures and decision trees.