This morning, we sounded the alarm on the patient boarding crisis that has brought ERs across our country to a breaking point. In our joint letter to President Biden, we shared real-life stories showing the threat to our health care safety net. [1/4]

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Thank you AnnalsofEM for allowing us to highlight the untapped opportunity Z codes represent for standardized social risk documentation. Matthew Pantell Laura

Women now represent 36% of EM residents, but #genderequity & promotion in EM- esp at the chair level- continues to lag among medical specialties.

Pervasive gender harassment is one of many reasons why & reporting is critical to reduce harassment. So why doesn't it happen?
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Did you know we vaccinate our community against COVID-19 here at Ben Taub Hospital ER? Drs. Anita Chary, MD PhD, Ynhi Thomas, MD, Michelle Suh, E. Ordoñez, MD, MPH, and Greg Buehler discuss our strategy in this commentary
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We found no difference between amiodarone & digoxin in afib w/ RVR when used 2nd-line after failed BB or CCB.

Congrats to our resident Dr. Jess Mason. Jenny Susan Wilcox, MD MassGeneral News

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Congratulations to Shan from MGH Emergency Med/HAEMR for receiving the Silver Birch Award at #ACEP22 in recognition of her service to the field of geriatric emergency medicine. 👏👏👏

Our article on how to improve the ED environment for older adults during the COVID pandemic - w/ Maura Kennedy Empowering Patients LSGeriatricEM Shan SAEM EBM IG Kei Ouchi, MD, MPH ToxInNewEngland and AGEM president Dr. Cameron-Comasco

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Read Rebecca Schonnop in CJEM. The article asks the question: 'Why ARE ED staff so bad at identifying #delirium ?' (Sorry folks, that's what the research says.) Answers: rdcu.be/cV8P6 The Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative CAEP AGEM ACEP Geriatric Sect American Delirium Society American Geriatrics Society

Another ER docs response to the question…how are things in the ER these days?

Congrats Dr Katie Hunold Buck and thanks for mentoring your juniors!!

Excited to join the network of The National Institute on Aging (NIA) GEMSSTAR grantees, w/ many thanks to geriatric EM mentors including Empowering Patients Michael Kennedy Shan SAEM EBM IG Kei Ouchi, MD, MPH ToxInNewEngland

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Congratulations to the authors, including my pals JJ, Maura Kennedy, and Alden Landry DEI on their important work! Brigham and Women's Emergency Medicine MGH Emergency Med BIDMC Emergency Med Harvard Medical School jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

New publication alert: Three decades of demographic trends among academic emergency physicians. Women made progress toward equitable representation, but NO meaningful progress toward racial parity. We need urgent structural changes to address racism in academic medicine & beyond.

Listen to this episode of #GEMCAST where Christina Shenvi, MD, PhD, MBA, FACEP and @selmanMD discuss complex, frail #OlderAdults in the ED and the problematic diagnosis of #FailuretoThrive . Learn how emergency caregivers can better understand & identify #Frailty in older patients

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Check out our tips on reducing ageism in The Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative - with Anita Rohra Shan and Lauren Cameron-Comasco

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Excited to share our paper in nature. Single-cell transcriptomics of CHD (and more).
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Excited to lead discoveries in Single Ventricle Disease

Jim Martin Md Abul Hassan Samee BCM_CVRI Texas Children's TCHResearchNews TCH Heart Center From the Labs at Baylor College of Medicine BCM Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Additional Ventures The Children's Heart Foundation

In our talk w/ Mariam Fofana, MD PhD (she/elle) HANYS - 150+ audience members, 81% had witnessed/experienced interpersonal racism from pt in their healthcare career, 56% of those directly addressed it w/ the pt

Helpful institutional strategies to reduce pt racism vs healthcare staff:

Join me, Mariam Fofana, MD PhD (she/elle) & Dr. Kimani Paul-Emile at HANYS webinar on approaches to dealing w/ interpersonal racism from patients

May 19, 2 PM EST

Register here (free): hanys.org/events/?event_…

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We're excited to announce Dr. Ynhi Thomas as Assistant Medical Director Ben Taub EC, Operations Research and Assistant Medical Director Ben Taub EC, Behavioral Health Initiatives.