Stephen H Anderson MD

Emergency Medicine Physician over 35 years. Past Chair of the National ACEP Board of Directors.

[ACEP Members @ACEPNation]

Congrats to ACEP member Rep.-elect Amish Shah, MD, MPH, FACEP. A big win for emergency physicians and patients!

"I want to thank ACEP and NEMPAC for their unwavering support for our campaign, and I hope to make every emergency physician proud with my service in Congress." - Rep.-elect Amish Shah

[Stephen H Anderson MD @ACEPSteve]

The Naloxone Project and the American College of Emergency Physicians

[ACEP Members @ACEPNation]

Side by side, shift after shift. Thank you to all emergency nurses, who are essential partners in delivering lifesaving care to patients every day. @ENAorg #EmergencyNursesWeek #Nursing #ERNurse

[ACEP Members @ACEPNation]

Chickens welcome, EM docs encouraged. 🐔

Join us at ACEP26 October 5-8 for the best of emergency medicine. Register now: https://t.co/RbVfzJWIMn

[ACEP Members @ACEPNation]

Protect yourself and those around you. ACEP supports evidence-based information and vaccination, especially as flu season begins.

[ACEP Members @ACEPNation]

Celebrating Marsha D. Ford, MD, FACEP, recipient of the John A. Rupke Legacy Award, which honors sustained leadership and dedication to emergency medicine.

🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Ford! 🎉

[Stephen H Anderson MD @ACEPSteve]

@EmergencyDocs Yes, this incredible physician really does think this fast😎

[Emergency Physicians @EmergencyDocs]

What makes a great emergency physician?

Dr. Alicia Gonzalez shares her top five green flags: the skills, behaviors and practices that set great EM doctors apart. ✅

[ACEP Members @ACEPNation]

The John G. Wiegenstein Leadership Award, presented to Alexander Rosenau, DO, CPE, FACEP, recognizes outstanding contributions to the College.

🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Rosenau! 🎉

[ACEP Members @ACEPNation]

The Council Meritorious Service Award, presented to Douglas M. Char, MD, FACEP, recognizes his outstanding contributions to the growth and development of the ACEP Council and the enthusiasm he has brought to its work.

🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Char! 🎉

[ACEP Members @ACEPNation]

Showing up for patients starts with showing up for yourself.

Dr. Scott Pasichow shares how seeking mental health support has made him a better physician.

On Physician Suicide Awareness Day, take time to check in with your colleagues and help break the stigma around seeking support.

[ACEP Members @ACEPNation]

ACEP mourns the loss of Nancy J. Auer, MD, FACEP, the College's first woman president and a trailblazer whose leadership opened doors for countless emergency physicians. Full statement: https://t.co/5XbzGiPmU2

[Kevin Pho, M.D. @kevinmd]

Researchers gave about 500 mental health clinicians the same patient to read about. One word in the description was different. That word changed what the clinicians thought he deserved.

In one version he was a substance abuser. In the other he was a person with a substance use disorder. Same case, same facts, one swapped noun.

The clinicians who read "abuser" were more likely to hold him personally responsible for his condition. They were more likely to endorse punishment as justifiable and as needed. A jail sentence as a wake-up call, rather than treatment for a health condition that responds to treatment.

Public health physician Devika Bhushan lays out why the swap works on trained clinicians. Abuse is a crime. It describes something a person is held accountable for. A substance use disorder is an illness, roughly 50 percent heritable, comparable to asthma and type 2 diabetes on that measure, and shaped for the rest by the circumstances and supports around a person.

Read the first framing and you get a defendant. Read the second and you get a patient.

The downstream numbers are the part clinicians should sit with. Fewer than 1 in 5 people with addiction ever receive appropriate treatment. Once a stigmatizing diagnosis is on the record, people receive roughly 30 percent less guideline-adherent care for their other conditions, including cardiovascular disease and diabetes, which is one reason life expectancy runs up to almost 24 years shorter.

The gradient inside medicine is worth naming too. General practitioners, the people most likely to meet someone early, show the most fear, anger, and mistrust toward these patients. Psychiatrists show less. Addiction specialists show the least. Comfort tracks training, and the doctor most people reach first is the one trained least for it.

Bhushan's practical list is short enough to use tomorrow.

Substance abuser becomes person with a substance use disorder.

Addict, which reduces somebody to the illness, becomes person with a substance use disorder as well.

Clean and dirty, which turn a lab value into a moral grade, become the test shows the presence or absence of a substance.

And the number that almost never gets quoted alongside the grim ones: in one survey, nearly 3 in 4 people with a substance use disorder reported being in long-term recovery, though only 1 in 5 are in treatment of any kind. Bhushan flags that survey's limits herself. It still says something most people have never been told.

Listen to the full conversation on The Podcast by KevinMD. Link in the replies.

What is one phrase you have retired from your own charting because of what it did to a patient? #ThePodcastbyKevinMD

[nychealthy @nycHealthy]

Today is #OverdoseAwarenessDay. No one should die of an overdose.

Whether or not you use drugs, by carrying naloxone you can help prevent an overdose.

Find free naloxone near you: https://t.co/MaVJK4K5QV

[Brandon Darby @brandondarby]

@MapQuest @joe_warmington Fixed it.

[Stephen H Anderson MD @ACEPSteve]

@allfamilypharma ONLY with a documented photo of you and your horse!

[Stephen H Anderson MD @ACEPSteve]

@KalshiFB Easy answer. Wagner was also NFL Man of the Year for his Community Service. Sometimes the minutes on the field aren’t the only benefit a player brings to the field AND THE COMMUNITY.

[Mike Bales™ 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

NASA and Elon Musk want to find water on Mars. Just send me up there with a driver and a Pro V1 — I'll find it in ten minutes. 🤣⛳️

[CD Castellón @CDCastellon]

✅ SOLD OUT✅

🎟️ La afición del @CDCastellon agota los 13720 abonos disponibles en Castalia

¡BRUTAL un año más!

#PPO👂

[Lorraine Kelley-Quon, MD, MSHS, FACS, FAAP @LKelley_Quon]

Another #Narcan training run by @HOPE_sci_lab! Proud of @beeotaibi and Sneha Krish, @KECKSchool_USC MS2’s Ayaan Ekram & Negin Samandari, & all of our @USC med student volunteers. Thanks to @CommunityHeal17 & @IASatUSC for providing free #Narcan & @ChildrensLA Dept of Surgery