Harrowing evidence that women are 6x more likely to experience partner abandonment after serious illness than men Once again the social history is SO much more than alcohol/smoking/drugs, Y/N We need to understand who is caring for our patients at home acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

the argument for masking in hospitals is… not complicated they’re big buildings with patients, and their health is important by Emily Landon Chicago Tribune chicagotribune.com/opinion/commen…

#Canada - 3.3 million hectares burned. 2214 wildfires nationwide. Currently 413 fires of which > 200 are out of control. 18 fires affecting First Nations. 26,000 people are evacuated from their homes. This is not a fire “season” - this is a warmer climate fire storm.

I keep thinking we've reached the largest anomaly (in terms of absolute magnitude), but that's not the case yet. The #Antarctic departure continues to widen. Apologies if you are tired of seeing me post this same graphic. Other graphical perspectives at zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-…

📢 Our team's new work in AEM Journal shows sobering disparities in EM workforce attrition. ow.ly/qUaK50OQtnm 1⃣ Female EM physicians over 12 years younger at the time of attrition vs. male counterparts, with age at attrition decreasing for both genders. 🧵 1/10

It's the kind of humid where I have to reset my entire nervous system after a short walk outside

Susan M. Love, MD, MBA, who led Dr. Susan Love Foundation for Breast Cancer Research since 1995, steering the Foundation through its innovative and life-changing research and advocacy programs, has died. She was 75. #LegacyofLove #LoveForever

/7 You end up feeling like you're working all of the time, but you're not making any progress. In fact, you might even feel like you're falling behind. This feeling feeds your fears, and you end up trying to do even more even though that actually means getting less done.

Q: Why are waits at emergency rooms so long? A: Because the rest of the healthcare system is failing. The patient did everything right, but the healthcare system did them so so so wrong. 🧵… They call their PCP, but can’t get an appointment. So they turn to the ER. They

"female physicians were more likely to leave academia at all career stages, in all regions of the country" Glad this work is out. We need to make a change for #WomenInMedicine jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Public service announcement for managers and coaches: you can't judge effort by results. Inconsistent performance doesn't mean people aren't trying their best. It often means they're doing their best in the face of turbulence. In humans, variability is a feature, not a bug.

I understand the impulse to do so but I don’t think we need to try to appeal to the humanity of people against safe use sites by asking them if they want people to die instead. Because yes, they absolutely do, and they don’t see that as a moral issue.

Without more acute care beds, hospitals are on their own to grapple with emergency department crises This week's editorial in CMAJ Ontario Hospital Association CAEP Eddy Lang Paul Atkinson alan drummond cmaj.ca/content/195/34…

When There's No Emergency Medicine A short story on how basic care fails without emergency medicine by Cliff Reid We protect the rest of the healthcare system from patients, and sometimes we protect patients from the rest of the healthcare system

Another COVID wave, another wave of one star Yankee Candle reviews

Another ER doc response to the question…how are things in the ER these days? As my friend Salim R. Rezaie, MD says, the ERs are becoming everyone, every time for everything.

Southern 🇧🇷 Brazil EM conference getting started, in the birthplace of the specialty in the country - PORTO ALEGRE! #SBMEDE23

really a must-watch video 😳 nice illustration that if the EEG suddenly goes flat for no obvious reason, it may be because the brain is getting no perfusion (with impending full-on cardiac arrest occurring next) Casey Albin, MD