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

FEMinEM

Through this journey, I witnessed a variety of leadership styles and approaches to managing patient care. 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. I had the unique opportunity to view medicine from a different perspective.

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Meet the Emergency Physicians Running for Congress

ACEP Now

ACEP Now: Dr. Aisha Terry, has focused on the pipeline of leadership for the College this year. You don’t get that from other places, maybe the military. PECK: I go back to the skills that it gives. It’s amazing, like being able to be calm and teach a resident while someone’s actively coding in front of you.

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Healthcare Leaders Should Focus on Making Medicine Better Rather than Issuing Press Releases on Geopolitical Issues

Sensible Medicine

Leadership spent time crafting these statements, reworking them, and considering if the word choice might offend someone. Third, it would be presumptuous to assume that the leadership of a medical center, specialty society, or journal has something productive to say.

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Killing and Mental Disorders.

Maria Yang, MD

It is unclear if these voices were related to his threats to carry out a shooting at a military base. This can include a military attacking an opposing nation-state, an organization attacking a nation-state, or a nation-state attacking an exclave. Let’s consider some examples: The man who shot 18 people in Maine.

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ED Boarding

ACEP Now

8 Additionally, military branches have skilled workers with complementary skills where an existing workforce could be immediately deployed to meet these needs. military facilities. Funds could be used to hire additional physicians or advanced practice clinicians to augment clinical gaps, or to provide leadership.