EMRA

What does equitable emergency care look like for transgender and gender non-conforming patients?

This Health Policy Journal Club examines how bias, gaps in training, and institutional culture can impact ED experiences — and why empathy, education, and affirming care practices matter and affect patient experiences.

📖 Read more: https://emresident.org/hpjc-transgender-health/

The opioid epidemic has become supercharged in the past 10-15 years — it is important to know what resources are available in your community and for your patients.

In this episode of EMRA*Cast, host Peter Lorenz, MD, sits down with EM/tox/addiction medicine-trained Rachel Haroz, MD to discuss this ever-changing landscape and how to best provide lifesaving care to some of our most vulnerable patients

Listen here: https://www.emra.org/news/managing-oud-in-the-ed

"Silence is not acceptable in the face of this threat, and advocacy is not out of reach."

Learn more from Polly Wiltz, DO, EMRA President; and Elizabeth Nisper, MD, EMRA Secretary of the Board/Editor in Emergency Medicine News: https://journals.lww.com/em-news/fulltext/9900/immigration_protection_in_health_care__how_the.4.aspx

Detained EM resident Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar was released May 13 on bond with an ankle monitor after more than a month in custody. Her case remains unresolved and another physician was detained at the same time. This editorial from EMRA highlights a broader, ongoing issue affecting immigrant physicians and patient care. https://ow.ly/6Eho50Z5gtc