Patients are not "customers" or "clients." They are frightened, suffering, vulnerable people. The word "patient" derives from the Latin meaning "suffering." They deserve professionals totally committed to their well-being. #Ethics

Is this better for patients or just more convenient for clinicians?

How #AI helped triage patients with chest pain in the emergency department, partitioning to low or high risk and speeding the process JAMA Internal Medicine Jeremiah Hinson jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

💊💉New work with Ambrose Wong et al in Am Jnl of Geriatric Psych 🚩1 in 20 older adult ED visits results in chemical sedation or physical restraint. 🚩Minoritized group status was linked to increased use, especially among the oldest old. Free access for 50 days: bit.ly/3SoRtb7

If your personality is thrilled by saving a life and then turning around to help a person at their most vulnerable time of need - then emergency medicine is for you! #embound Choose a Medical Career to Suit Your Personality usnews.com/education/best…

Coco Gauff, American ballerina on Parisian clay 💃 📸 corinne dubreuil

Hope you took your July 4th tank top along 😂

To be clear - our paper today suggest that previously developed ME-CFS measures do not capture the prolonged symptomology after COVID-19 illness, AKA Long COVID. We need not just a definition but better assays to make progress jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

As a physician, I wanted to find a PCP in my own health system. There were no appointments near my hospital. None. So I went for a clinic halfway between my home and the hospital. Not ideal, but it will do. All the other clinics are on the far north metro, far from both. 1/6

If anyone wants to learn about our research fellowship, EMS Fellowship, or Social EM at Yale, come hang out with me! #EMBound #Medstudent

Is that a John Deere or Steyr?

Emergency Physician spend just 6 mins in the EHR per visit and the majority of time documenting and not reviewing critical data and history - we need to support emergency physician workload better jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… Ted Melnick Harlan Krumholz Karen Sheares

In this cross-sectional study of emergency department physicians' EHR use, EHR time per clinical encounter varied substantially based on triage acuity score, presenting complaint, and disposition, among other factors. ja.ma/3YHVIT5

I recently had a VERY COMMON annual cancer screening at UCSF Health. My primary care provider is Amazon One Medical. Some people might call me a healthcare "interoperability expert", and at minimum, I am someone who has worked in the field for many years. AND YET...

As a workforce health services researcher I would love that PECOS specialty designation! No other way to measure the current capacity of specialty healthcare teams or primary care across the nation Cameron Gettel MD MHS Chris Bennett, MD

In a recent PLOS ONE study, a team including Yale Emergency Medicine's Arjun and Yale Internal Medicine's Erica Spatz finds patients reporting more severe #longCOVID symptoms were significantly less likely to be #backtowork three months after #infection: news.yale.edu/2024/08/15/sic…

Healthcare rant of the week: My husband has recently spent 7 days (2 admissions) in a kind of new invention of US healthcare hell: the “emergency department overflow unit.” Help me solve the mystery of how these places of purgatory came to be 1/9

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This is the problem - even hotels don’t run at 100% - kills any flow. Also data-based see fig 1: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… Alex Janke Ted Melnick

Certificate of Need (CON) regulations are an outdated, blunt and unnecessary regulatory lever In a world with alternative payment models, hospital at home, growth of post acute care options and many other ways to reduce hospitalization costs