AAEM Opposes Turkish Medical Bill Criminalizing Emergency First Aid Care

January 28, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Laura Burns
               lburns@aaem.org
               800-884-2236

MILWAUKEE — The American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) is the specialty society of board certified emergency physicians. AAEM is a democratic organization committed to the principle of fair and equitable practice environments to allow emergency physicians to provide the highest quality of patient care.

It is the firm opinion of AAEM that the medical bill newly signed by Turkish President Abdullah Gul, making it a crime to administer emergency first aid without government authorization, unjustly and negatively affects both patients and providers.

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New Podcast: Emergency Physician Advocates - Due Process Survey of EPs

http://www.aaem.org/publications/podcasts/emergency-physician-advocates

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.

Or listen on the AAEM website.
Leave your comments below!

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

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AAEM Members to be Featured on "Untold Stories of the ER"

Mark your calendars! AAEM members Dr. David Meyers and Dr. Sudip Bose will be sharing stories on this season's premiere of "Untold Stories of the ER" on Sunday, October 6, 9:00pm EST on Discovery Fit & Health and Saturday, October 12, 9:00pm EST on TLC. (Times may vary, check local listings).

Read the teasers of what to expect in the episode from Dr. Meyers & Dr. Bose below!