New episode! Why should ED providers care about nutrition and food insecurity? How can we efficiently screen for and address this with our patients? When do we need to incorporate food into our medical decision making? Ayesha Khan, MD, MPH Quincy Moore

🙏🏾 Madeline Grade, MD MPH MSc & Alister Martin for this piece on civic health in the ED! A must read as we approach November. We just started using our Vot-ER badges at Duke Emergency Medicine this week! (s/o Emily Cleveland Manchanda, MD, MPH for editing) #vote #November3rd2020 #socialem socialempact.com/viewpoints/vote

The Justice Department will announce a settlement with Purdue Pharma, the OxyContin maker widely blamed for fueling the nation's opioid crisis, sources tell Alex Mallin and me. Outcome for the controlling Sackler family is not immediately clear

An AP analysis of Feeding America data from 181 food banks in its network found the organization has distributed nearly 57% more food in the third quarter of the year. #socialEM

BREAKING: America is going hungry. #FoodInsecurity (FI) rates have seen meteoric rises during the #covid19 pandemic, like many social determinants of health (homelessness, IPV, transportation, etc). A brief 🧵on FI, & why this holiday🎄season, consider GIVING to help fight FI

An amazing review of ED-based interventions from an all-star team of #socialem leaders including our very own Research Editor, Lauren Walter!! 😍😍😍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

"Resident Physicians Take Action Against Increasingly Common Barrier to Healthcare: Hospital Closure" Our newest feature, written by @lena_carleton, highlights the struggles felt by underserved communities when their local hospital closes. #socialem socialempact.com/initiative-fea…

🎉 500 followers!!! 🎉 Thank you for following along with us as we build this platform for views, education, research and advocacy related to #socialEM! Who’s going to help amplify us to 1k? Shoutout to our amazing team! 🥰 SocialEMpact.com/our-team

"Physicians can leverage their social capital & moral authority to improve health care quality within & after release from the carceral system" 1- Humanize people in your care, documentation 2- Advocate for patients' needs & health 3- Advocate for systemic change 👏Bisan Salhi

🚨 NEW Spotlight🚨 Dr. Chad Holmes [Chad Holmes, DO FACEP] @johnpetersmi sits down with our Bailee Jacobsen to discuss his newly created Street Medicine Fellowship! #streetmedicine #socialem #fellowship @StreetMedInst emresidents SocialEMpact.com/chadholmes

Can’t wait!

Two years ago an editor at The Lancet, Janna Palmer, asked if I would consider writing a regular column. I was completely floored. The end result was The Penumbra thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Early in pandemic, SF stood up isolation/quarantine hotels to offer ppl who r homeless w #COVID19 integrated medical/behavioral healthcare. Helped preserve Zuckerberg SF General Hospital & Trauma Center capacity 4 sickest. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… JAMA Network Open. Great partnership SFDPH SF Dept. of Homelessness & Supportive Housing UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative + more.

In loving memory of Maria X. Martinez, SFDPH leader, and a close colleague, mentor, + friend. She asked us to describe the SF approach to High Users of Multiple Systems (HUMS), recognizing patients' med + social needs. doi.org/10.1111/acem.1…. Thx @MKushel Maria Raven UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative

Wondering how to provide better care & support for #immigrants in your #ED? What kinds of protocols & policies to put in place? How to advocate for your immigrant patients' rights? Check out the SAEM #SocialEM Immigration Advocacy Toolkit! bit.ly/2U75Jd6

Another innovation from EMxSDOH Lab and @KellyMDoran: people with lived experience teaching health care workers about homelessness. nyulangone.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Homelessness: A Health Crisis In our newest Education Perspective, @diana_halloran of Northwestern EM outlines the scope of the housing crisis, the bias these patients face, and the outlook looking forward. Edited by Payal socialempact.com/education-pers…

Climate Change & Environmental Health Disparities In our newest perspective, Corey Hazekamp breaks down how global warming impacts health, environmental racism, & how emergency medicine play a role in addressing these disparities Editor:Lauren Walter socialempact.com/research-persp…

LONG THREAD: As many of you know I’ve been hospitalized for almost a month. Here is my side of what I experienced. Stigma and discrimination is alive and well in medicine unfortunately. Here is just some of what happened to me.

Such a well-deserved honor, and so glad to see another chapter author from Social Emergency Medicine: Principals and Practice acknowledged for her vital work! link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…