Emergency Physician Advocates: Due Process Survey of EPs
Joseph Wood, MD JD MAAEM FAAEM, Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine at Mayo
Clinic in Scottsdale, and past-president of AAEM, interviews fellow
past-president, Robert McNamara, MD FAAEM, Professor and Chairperson of
the Department of Emergency Medicine at Temple University, about the
recently published survey of EPs regarding due process, financial
pressures, and the ability to advocate for patients.
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On due process:
"You are supposed to first be a patient advocate ... it's not only protecting your job, it's letting you practice the way you should. You're supposed to first be a patient advocate - and that is heightened in EM. Without due process - what we're being told in this survey and what we know through other things in the Academy - is that you can't do that. You can do that most effectively is you feel you are on thin ice."
- Robert McNamara, MD FAAEM
AAEM Past President
