
Sarah Kleinschmidt
@dr_schmidty
Resident physician @BostonCityEM @The_BMC, MedEd and systems change with social justice focus, former RN, EMT, educator, adventurer. Views=mine.
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08-05-2012 00:42:32
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"Many physicians are now finding it difficult to quash the suspicion that our institutions, and much of our work inside them, primarily serve a moneymaking machine," writes Eric Reinhart. nytimes.com/2023/02/05/opi…

For the last three years, report after report has documented rampant dysfunction, corruption, inequality, racism, exploitation, profiteering, and deadly systems-wide failures in US healthcare. Despite this, policymakers and healthcare administrators 1/ nytimes.com/2023/02/05/opi…




I know there are a lot of unmatched EM spots this year. It’s a problem. Here’s what I AM happy about - the ones that matched EM today - they TRULY want to be EM docs and have a passion for it in spite of what they’ve “heard” and that means our future profession is in great hands.


Disappointed in Harvard University today. Lacking transparency, support for victims, accountability for whoever made the call (likely internal), recognition that this is potentially fatal violence against students in your care. Make it right. Harvard Alumni Association


Awesome new work! Race harms recruitment and retention through specific and identifiable mechanisms. Congrats to Jessica Faiz, MD, MS. So excited to keep building the pipeline together!

Here’s the dirty secret of emergency medicine: We don’t have to do prior auth. Like ever. We just order what the patient needs, and the patient gets it done in the ED. But here’s why we care about prior auth anyways: B/c not a shift goes by where a patient doesn’t land in the


At the end of the day, the Titanic Missing Billionaire Submarine story is a perfect distillation of 21st Century capitalism: A small group of very rich people assume a clearly irresponsible risk. It goes predictably wrong. Scores more in public resources are used to save them...




I’ve been a hospital chaplain now for eight years at hundreds of deathbeds. I want to tell you something I’ve witnessed. Most people, at the end, realize they’ve spent a lot of their life hiding. Sometimes by choice, or because they could not safely choose to be themselves. ➡️

The residents & fellows at Boston Medical Center in Boston are rallying TODAY for a fair contract with a living wage and crucial benefits. When frontline health workers are well, patients are better taken care of. #FairContractBMC #BMCForEveryone bostonglobe.com/2023/07/20/met…