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Timothy C. Peck, MD – Full Interview

ACEP Now

We don’t incentivize experience in our systems and our laws – both the provider’s experience as well as the patient’s experience, so when it comes to hospital boarding, it falls right in line with that. Another is to deliver the best patient care you possibly can, and those things don’t work very well together.

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Meet the Emergency Physicians Running for Congress

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Between deployments, Dr. McCormick earned his Master of Business Administration from National University and medical degree from Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. The reason I think orthopedists have done so well because they’ve been involved, they’ve been politically engaged, they’ve used their assets to preserve their assets.

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Journal Club - Emergency Department Initiated Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder

Downeast Emergency Medicine

Rosenberg and colleagues took a qualitative approach when investigating barriers and facilitators to successful implementation of ED-initiated buprenorphine programs in critical access hospital EDs across Maine.

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Journal Club - Tranexamic Acid in Trauma

Downeast Emergency Medicine

2][3] If earlier treatment with TXA is better, would there be benefit in its administration in the prehospital setting? Association between prehospital tranexamic acid administration and outcomes of severe traumatic brain injury. If so, could this be done safely? These questions are asked in the first paper that we reviewed.

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Emergency Medicine Deserves to “Re-Brand” Itself as a Cost Saver

ACEP Now

Now, many PID patients are treated and released after ED administration of appropriate antibiotics to eradicate possible infection by Neisseria gonorrhea and Chlamydia trachomatis , often with added treatment for anaerobic microbes. Acute pyelonephritis has become a disease for which outpatient management is often feasible and appropriate.

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2023 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the President-Elect and Council Officer Candidates

ACEP Now

This is an important opportunity for board certified emergency physicians to secure those positions today, impressing upon hospital administrations the essential benefits to the patients, the medical staff, and the hospital itself uniquely enabled by board certified emergency physicians.

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ED Boarding

ACEP Now

What’s clear from the emerging data: our experience as clinicians as well as our patients’ is that the system is unraveling. Accessed July 13, 2023. Accessed July 13, 2023. FOA-ETA-22-16, DOL Nursing Expansion Grant Program Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration. Accessed July 13, 2023.