ACEP Frontline

Today(2/3) is National Women Physicians Day and we are joined by three physician leaders, Dr. Gillian Schmitz, Dr. Torree McGowan, and Dr. Anne Zink to talk about their experiences, challenges, and motivations. Women now make up over half of new medical student classes and continue to grow as leaders and experts in medicine. The day celebrates the first woman who attended medical school in the United States over 200 years ago and she was actually admitted as a joke.

In this week's repost, have you ever wondered when you should consider hyperammonemia in a patient? She’s a pediatric emergency physician and he’s a metabolic geneticist focusing on rare diseases. Join us for a kitchen table conversation between Dr. Karen Eigen and Dr. George Diaz about the signs and symptoms and the risks of high ammonia. Together, they’ll talk about their experiences, and what we can do to raise the clinical suspicion of hyperammonemia in the ED. This podcast is sponsored by Horizon Therapeutics.

COVID-19 has forever changed respiratory pathogen epidemiology and ED diagnostic strategy. In this episode, Dr. Charles Cairns discusses the role of syndromic respiratory panels, along with PCT-guided therapy, to address this new "flu season".

This episode is made possible with support from BioMerieux Inc.

The pandemic has been tough on everyone, but we have seen a huge spike in overdose deaths. In this episode, we talk about the current landscape and steps to recovery.

In this special episode of ACEP Frontline, we interview the author of "Dreamland" and "The Least of Us", Sam Quinones, about his New York Best Selling book. We then follow-up with Rob Perez with DV8 Kitchen who assists addiction recovery through employment opportunities in his restaurant.

We are joined by Dr. Jason Vadhan and Dr. Christopher Zalesky regarding the EMRA "21 Greatest Hits EM Research Edition" to highlight some of the practice changing articles of the last year+. Great conversation and may just make your practice a little better!

https://www.emra.org/emresident/issue-page-folder/latest-articles/36890

COVID-19 has been a strain on everyone, but to those on the front line that have dealt with the illness, death, and external strains, it has been especially tough. In this episode, we talk about online peer support resources for physicians and others.

Resource Links...

StrengthAfterDisaster.org/Peer-Support

Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/healthcareworkerpeersupport

In this episode of The Frontline, we talk with physician financial guru, Dr. Jim Dahle. We look at the current financial environment, as well as some opportunities and traps for physicians.

With the return of an in-person conference is the return of the research forum. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Anthony Lagina about some of the highlights and potentially practice changing evidence.

We chat with Dr. Rob Rodriguez about his study regarding vulnerable and high risk populations regarding their hesitancy and access to the COVID vaccine.