Advanced Release: September/October Common Sense

www.aaem.org/publications/common-sense

Read it before it hits your mailbox! 

• AAEM Presidents Message: "A Call to Serve"
• From the Editor's Desk: "Participation"
• Washington Watch 
• Blast from the Past 
• Business of Emergency Medicine: "The Benefits of Physician Ownership" 
• NEW: Through the Patient's Eyes: "Delivering Life Changing News" 
•  Cracking the Code: Fixing the Crowded Emergency
  Department, Part 1 — Building the Burning Platform
• RSA President's Message, RSA Editor's Letter, Medical Student Council President's Message

Plus:
Advocacy Day Photos
Scientific Assembly Preview! 

New! Operations Management Podcast: Throughput and Patient Flow

Throughput and Patient Flow
Mark Graban, MS MBA, author of the books Lean Hospitals, Healthcare Kaizen, and The Executive Guide to Healthcare Kaizen, interviews Joseph Guarisco, MD FAAEM, ED Chair at Ochsner Hospital (New Orleans, LA) and Chair of the AAEM Operations Management Committee.

Part 1: Critical Drivers for Improving the ED
In part one of this episode, Mr. Graban and Dr. Guarisco discuss reasons for emergency department difficulties with throughput & patient flow and outline the critical drivers for improving the ED. They outline a conceptual breakdown of the ED and creating an agenda for change.

Part 2: Solutions for the ED 
In part two of this episode, Mr. Graban and Dr. Guarisco discuss solutions to address this difficult area of management and implications for the ED. They outline queuing theory, the concept of variance, and the split-flow model.

 

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Two New Episodes: Emergency Physician Advocates - The Liability Crisis & The EM Action Fund

The Emergency Physician Advocates: Medical-Legal Issues in Emergency Medicine

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July Episode: The Liability Crisis 
Larry Weiss, MD JD FAAEM, Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and past-president of AAEM, discusses what he refers to as the worst professional problem for physicians, the liability crisis in medicine. In this episode, Dr. Weiss addresses the following questions: Do we have a liability crisis? If so, why? And what can we do about this problem?

August Episode: EM Action Fund 
Larry Weiss, MD JD FAAEM, Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and past-president of AAEM, speaks with AAEM board president, William Durkin, Jr., MD MBA FAAEM, about the Emergency Physicians Action Fund.

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