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SGEM Xtra: How To Save A Life – Screening for Intimate Partner Violence in the Emergency Department

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Her unique work and life experiences have fueled her passion for leadership, patient education, and quality improvement. Canada’s Emergency Departments are where survivors of violence most often seek care, and where the violence against them is not always recognized.

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Pediatric Gender Medicine -

Sensible Medicine

24% experience severe domestic violence (the national average is 18%). They are unemployed at double the rate of the general population. 90% of trans people experience workplace harassment. 30-50% of trans people attempt suicide. A quarter of trans people die by the age of 69, as opposed to 77 for the general population.

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Grand Rounds Recap 7.17.24

Taming the SRU

A study that began in 2010 and is currently ongoing has found that approximately 25% of women experience some sort of physical or sexual violence or stalking by a partner in their lifetimes.