"Emergency departments are under extraordinary levels of pressure across the entire system. We've got a perfect storm of people presenting with COVID-19, but also high levels of staff shortages." - Dr Clare Skinner, @ACEMPresident. #abc730
Shout 👏 this 👏 from �� the 👏 rooftops!
Emergency medicine’s scope creep into a safety net for every failing of healthcare and social services has gone too far. We are broken.
Kudos to the authors for this brave and bold article.
#cdnhealth #EmergencyMedicine #MedTwitter
Whatever you are doing, please take 2 minutes to listen to Andrew Garfield’s extraordinary, profound, spine-tingling words about grief in the wake of losing his mother 💔
New report reveals shocking number of excess deaths caused by crowding in Emergency Depts. last year
A new RCEM report ‘Crowding + its Consequences’ has found that at least 4,519 patients have died as a result of crowding +12 hr stays in Emergency Depts. in England in 2020-2021.
My research into ED culture strongly supports the findings highlighted here - that disconnects in what we value and the way we are forced to practice that gets us further from those values is at the heart of distress for healthcare workers.
best advice I can give someone going to med school (& i guess in general): separate your sense of self worth from your academics and academic achievements as soon as you can.
Most people are excited by the prospect of opening up and releasing Covid restrictions.
Not HCWs. They feel sick with dread and genuine fear of what this will mean for them, their colleagues and their families as they face surging Covid cases in already overloaded hospitals.