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For Academic Institutions, Silence is Golden

Sensible Medicine

When a university or academic medical center speaks as an institution, especially when targeting an individual voicing unpopular or contrarian views, the effect will be to intimidate and silence diverse voices, particularly those that do not enjoy tenure or other protections. This is backwards.

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The Alfred Intensive Care Academic Centre

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Mandrola Chooses a Favorite Academic Article

Sensible Medicine

Words that pop into my head when thinking about the academic literature: vast, insipid, repetitive, Sisyphus. He had grown the once small Circulation--Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes into a prominent journal in the academic cardiology space. This sentence came seven years before social media and a virus shredded our norms.

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Fear and Opioids in Academic Medicine

Sensible Medicine

Respect for the standards by which one is judged is adaptive in academic medicine. The fact that these interactions rattled me is not surprising. I did not gain entry to medical school and attain the rank of professor by rebelling against the powerful.

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Re-Engineering Flow in an Academic Emergency Department

ACEP Now

But inside these charming historic walls is a research-driven, quaternary-care, academic, medical center. Though they were managing the boarding of admitted ED patients better than many academic medical centers, the increasing boarding burden on top of the surge in daily volume created an urgent need to restructure the ED flow.

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Prehospital Cath Lab Activation. What happened when the medics and patient arrived at this Academic ED?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This was texted to me by a paramedic while I was out running one day: "54 yo male chest pain started at 1pm. History of diabetes type II and stent placement in 2018. I’m seeing hyperacute T waves III, aVF, down sloping depression I and aVL. What do you think? I responded: "Definite inferior OMI. And Right Ventricular. Activated the Cath Lab."

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Academic Emergency Medicine: An oxymoron or opportunity?

RCEM Learning

However there are some myths in relation to academic practice where there is some supporting evidence. Despite this, due to it being a ‘relatively’ new speciality, EM has not had the history to develop a large Royal College (it was only invested in 2015) or a significant academic background.