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The 50-year Failure of American Health Care

Sensible Medicine

As a result, one-third of doctors are burned out and doctors have the highest suicide rate of any profession. It results in the suffering of millions of children, fewer eligible military personnel (a national security risk), and a heavy financial cost burdening every family and business in America. And losing.

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Three Ways for Emergency Medicine Docs to Practice Mindfulness

ACEP Now

He is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at MedStar Health and Georgetown University Hospital and assistant professor of military and emergency medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. The impact of burn-out on emergency physicians and emergency medicine residents: a systematic review.

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Stop the bloodshed!

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Having studied the avoidable causes of death, and finding the erstwhile fears of a prolonged tourniquet time in place to be no longer valid, the military has striven that each man has a tested and chosen tourniquet. The military emergency tourniquet program's lessons learned with devices and designs. Rapaport, Lisa. Jacobs, L.

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Boots on Ground: Lessons Learned from Trauma Nurse Turned EM Doc

FEMinEM

In Afghanistan, I worked with many military EM physicians—most of them men—who commanded their traumas much like an admiral would address his troops. My hope is that as we begin to embrace our distinctive contribution in the workplace, we will see less burn out, frustration, and dissatisfaction.

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Highs and Lows

Sensible Medicine

Barely thirty years old, and she had just burned her last bridge and had nowhere to go. The photo Sandra was holding, which Luciana would later use to for her portrait, was taken just before her nephew enlisted in the military. Her hospital course was uneventful, and she made good therapeutic use of her time on the unit. .”