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Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Advocacy

Health Policy Journal Club: It's Your Call Whether to Drive Distracted

8/6/2020 Surudh Daaram
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok have connected humanity at an unprecedented level, pushing us to remain "plugged in" to social media at all times. This mentality has permeated our driving beh
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Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Advocacy , COVID-19

Health Policy Journal Club: The Ethics of Allocation

7/7/2020 Logan Ramsey, MD
In the midst of a global pandemic, with worsening COVID-19 case numbers in the United States, the fair and equitable allocation of limited health care resources poses a challenge. How can clinicians p
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Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Advocacy

Health Policy Journal Club: Putting Out Fires

6/6/2020 Aaron R. Kuzel, DO, MBA
What makes out of hospital cardiac arrest more survivable? New evidence shows it's the dual dispatch of EMS and Fire teams.
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Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Advocacy

Health Policy Journal Club: Socially Constructed Criticisms

5/6/2020 Jasmeen Kaur
One more reason to pay attention to health policy: Your race or ethnic background may play a role in analyzing whether you receive pain treatment when seeking emergency medical services.
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Health Policy

What is Surprise Billing… and Why Should I Care?

4/22/2020 Nicholas Stark, MD, MBA , Phillip Tseng, MD, MBA, MEd , Jared Ditkowsky, MD , Andrew Luo , Kirstin Woody Scott, MD, MPhil, PhD , Sushant Kapoor, DO, MS , Nicholas Cozzi, MD, MBA , Ynhi Thomas, MD, MPH, MSc , Angela Cai, MD, MBA
Surprise billing has the potential to bruise the patient-physician relationship, harm patients' health, and lead to downstream problems in health care. This complex issue matters more now than ever.
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Editor's Forum , Health Policy

Editor's Forum: Apathy Is Not Cool

4/9/2020 Priyanka Lauber, DO
EM Resident's Editor-in-Chief investigates: When did organizational medicine become a dirty word? When did getting involved in physician administration and advocacy become uncool?
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Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Advocacy

Health Policy Journal Club: Until Medicaid Arrived, Nowhere Else to Turn

4/6/2020 Nardos Makonnen, MD
Why do patients seek emergency care? That key question can help frame the conversation about Medicaid expansion and ED volume.
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Health Policy Journal Club: We Need Some Bullet Control

3/12/2020 Mitchell Peterson, MD
Death toll 62% higher when LCMs used -- high fatality mass shootings at a higher rate in non-ban states whether or not an LCM is used. Just some of the stark statistics in this report that bring this
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Editorial , Advocacy , Leadership

Emergency Medicine Residents Oppose the Sale of Graduate Medical Education Slots

2/11/2020 Dhimitri Nikolla, DO , Hannah R. Hughes, MD, MBA , Allison Beaulieu, MD , Haig Aintablian, MD , Nehal Naik, MD
Read the joint statement from the All-EM Resident Organizations and Students group (AEROS) takes a stand on GME slots.
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Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Advocacy

Health Policy Journal Club: The Best Medicine Isn't Medicine At All

2/6/2020 Kenneth Kim
It is clear from this study that frequent ED users are a population with many interdisciplinary needs, and integrated data systems can help identify needs that might be otherwise obscured when focusin

#FOAMed and External Sources

Is 3.3% Really the Avoidable Number?

Emergency Medicine Literature of Note 08/31/2017

Policy Playbook: Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) changes

emDOCs.net – Emergency Medicine Education 01/10/2023

Dr. Aisha Liferidge Talks Health Policy and Public Health

EMRA*Cast 12/08/2016

Policy Playbook: Firearm Injury Prevention from the Bedside

emDOCs.net – Emergency Medicine Education 02/15/2023
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