Walked by this today. If only I had known how short-lived this sentiment would be. Now my colleagues and I work in short staffed emergency departments tirelessly while being treated with absolute disrespect by patients. How quickly times can change.
The prevalent feeling at #CAEP22 is that Canadian Emergency Medicine is fucked. To the extent that most of our problems emanate from beyond the walls of the ER means the health care system as a whole is similarly fucked. Things need to change
We keep hearing how our healthcare system is collapsing (which it is). But that does nothing to improve our understanding.
Let’s use a hypothetical emergency department visit to highlight the disaster that is happening every day around the country.
Here’s a thread 🧵:
Being a woman in medicine: a 🧵
Today, I admitted a patient. I spent ~30 minutes reviewing their chart, then headed to their room. After introducing myself, I spent ~15 minutes in the room chatting with the patient and their family and getting additional history.