Access to safe abortions in the post-Roe era
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Dr. Monica Saxena JD, MD joins us to discuss the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade. How will this affect access to abortions, particularly for marginalized communities? What relevance does this ruling have to the role of the EM physician in caring for emergencies in pregnancy? What role with the emergency department play in states that allow and don't allow abortions? What actions may we take for our patients, in the ED and outside the ED? Objectives 1. Explore the changing landscape of safe abortion access in the US 2. Learn how your practice in the emergency department may...
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Nutrition and Food Insecurity
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Dr. Seth Berkowitz and Economist Hunt Alcott join us to discuss nutrition, food insecurity, and their relevance to emergency medicine. What questions can we ask to identify food insecurity quickly? What resources can we offer patients? How might it affect our clinical decision making?
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Alcohol
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Drs. Otis Warren and Shannon Smith-Bernardin join us to discuss how alcohol relates to social issues. What more can we do for patients that are brought in drunk? What solutions exist at both the individual ED and healthcare system level?
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Health Disparities in the Time of COVID
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Across the US, LatinX and Black people are dying from COVID-19 at twice the rate of their white counterparts. In this special episode of Announce, hosts Drs. Ayesha Khan & Quincy Moore explore some of the issues underlying these disparities and what EM providers need to be aware of to combat them.
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Race
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Drs. Sheryl Heron and Camara Phyllis Jones join us to discuss race and how it affects our practice in the ED.
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Happy New Year!
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Our team took a breather for the holidays. Tune in February 1st for another episode!
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Homelessness
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In the U.S., a homeless person’s lifespan is 25 years less than average. In this episode, hosts Dr. Ayesha Khan & Dr. Quincy Moore explore how the EM providers can be pivotal in improving health outcomes for those that lack basic shelter with Dr. Kelly Doran and Stephen Brown.
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Structural determinants of health and unmet social needs
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Drs. Lewis Goldfrank and Phil Levy join us to discuss structural determinants of health, unmet social needs, and what we can do to address them in the emergency department.
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Opioids
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Drs. Gail D’Onofrio and Lewis Nelson join us to discuss the most up to date and practical topics related to opioids in the emergency department.
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Firearm Violence
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Drs. Megan Ranney and Emmy Betz discuss the role of the emergency physician in treating firearm violence, with focus on both interpersonal violence and suicide.
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Objectives:
- Debunk misunderstandings about the biological basis of race
- Analyze the relationship between race, social determinants of health, and health outcomes
- Discuss interventions that work to improve racial health disparities
- Predict how race may play a role in current policy and public health problems
Take-home points:
- Race is a social, not biological, construction
- Ancestry is poor marker genetics, and race a poor indicator of ancestry
- Racial health disparities are driven by racial disparities in social determinants of health
- Residential segregation is a large driver of disparities in SDH
- Working deliberately to treat racial groups similarly on individual and population levels is necessary to ameliorating racial health disparities
Additional resources:
Allegories on Race and Racism. Camara Jones, TEDxEmory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNhcY6fTyBM
Cohan D, Racist Like Me — A Call to Self-Reflection and Action for White Physicians. N Engl J Med 2019; 380:805-807
Jones CP. Levels of Racism: A Theoretical Framework and a Gardener’s Tale. Am J Public Health 2000; 90:1212-1215
Williams DR, American A, Wyatt R. Racial Bias in Health Care and Health Challenges and Opportunities. JAMA 2015;314(6):555–6
Washington, HA. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. Harlem Moon an imprint of DoubleDay Publishing 2007
Guests:
Sheryl L. Heron, MD, MPH, FACEP Sheryl Heron is a Professor and Vice Chair of Administrative Affairs in Emergency Medicine and an Assistant Dean of Medical Education and Student Affairs at Emory University. While her accomplishments are too numerous to list, her 20 year career in emergency medicine, academia and public health, has led to national recognition as an expert on diversity and inclusion in medicine. Dr. Heron has also lectured and published extensively on diversity and inclusion in medicine. Most recently, she served as co-editor of the textbook, Diversity and Inclusion in Patient Care.
Camara Phyllis Jones, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D Jones is a former president of the American Public Health Association and Adjunct Professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine and Emory Rollins School of Public Health. She has also served as the Research Director on Social Determinants of Health and Equity in the Division of Adult and Community Health at the CDC. As a family physician and epidemiologist, Dr. Jones’s work focuses on the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of the nation. From TED talks to National Symposia, Dr. Jones’ allegorical pedagogy has elevated the national dialogue on race and health.
Contributors:
John Lewis
Dan Gingold
Sean Schnarr
Jenny Tsai