Ah man, wish I had this last week, comparatively my office is a fail! They even had to blur out whatever was on the right! They did a good job covering our decision aid though (should you get the vaccine if you're pregnant? foamcast.org/COVIDvacPregna… westernmassnews.com/local-doctor-d…

Decision aid now available in 10 languages! You may not be a pregnant Nepali speaker wondering about whether to get vaccinated, but she's out there...foamcast.org/covidvacpregna…

Massive THANK YOU to Baystate Health translation services for translating this into NINE languages.

Disparities in mortality/vaccine access, evictions, increasing overdose deaths...the issues of Social EM are more important than ever - come be part of moving the field forward at the SAEM Consensus Conference. Andrew Levitt Center for Social Emergency Medicine Michelle P. Lin, MD, MPH Maggie Samuels-Kalow saem.org/annual-meeting…

Baystate Emergency Medicine: when your awesome senior resident says you make her heart flutter, she doesn’t just mean it, she accurately depicts it on a delicious cookie. ⁦Baystate Emergency Medicine⁩ ⁦Baystate Health⁩

I know nothing about you Greg Abbott but I'm going to guess you're a Christian. How about you "choose life"? How about you help your state evolve past the ineffective (and racist) death penalty?

What's that? You'd like a review of all the literature regarding whether CT affects clinical outcomes in renal colic? I'm so glad you asked. Baystate Emergency Medicine Baystate IHDPS dx.doi.org/10.1002/emp2.1…

Me to tween: Z, did you notice that the more Minecraft you play, the worse your mood is? Z: Mom, that's correlation, not causation. Me: ...(#ProudResearchMama)

Quick question SAEM What research-related didactics do you want to see (IN NEW ORLEANS) next May? forms.gle/z3E6bF1VPXEitK… Michael Gottlieb Megan Ranney MD MPH 🌻 Lauren Westafer, DO MPH MS Kristin Rising Maggie Samuels-Kalow Michelle P. Lin, MD, MPH Bernard P. Chang MD PhD Marc Probst 🇺🇦 @Ted_Melnick Bill Soares Liz Samuels Esther Choo, MD MPH

So many great quotes: "who's going to start it if we don't?"..."anyway we can help people, I'm all for it"..."We are on the right side of history when it comes to this…these folks are sick…and you are really trying to help." What motivates you to start bup?

Can't wait to meet you - come rotate with us!

I’m sorry women of Texas (and many other states): your guns have more rights than your uterus.

Does the Supreme Court truly believe we all have a right to carry weapons of mass destruction? Or do they mostly believe that the NRA and gun makers have a right to make bank, and they need something that sounds better than “#BecauseGreed”?

As a non-lawyer who studies law, it is making my head hurt trying to square the Court's reasoning that states can't restrict people from carrying guns in crowded outdoor public spaces, but can completely restrict women from terminating pregnancy.

SAEM Applaud this statement. Very much looking forward to the announcement that #saem23 will not be in Texas

Thank you Ken Milne MD for addressing this important issue! And thanks to the research team, who are so fabulous that I couldn’t stop using the word ‘fabulous’… ⁦Lauren Westafer, DO MPH MS⁩ ⁦Bill Soares⁩ ⁦Baystate Emergency Medicine⁩ thesgem.com/2022/08/sgem37…

I regret #OurERisFull too. (worse than the orange line) + too many people blame patients who come in for "non-emergencies." Their inability to get primary care for diabetes, hypertension, etc is NOT their fault. The system is broken. (and they're not the source of the crowding)

Fantastic research by Elizabeth Schoenfeld Lauren Westafer, DO MPH MS et al. We need more research like this. "Just give them a choice": Patients' perspectives on starting medications for opioid use disorder in the ED | AEM Journal pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35426962/

So excited to learn from my community! ❤️ you WCIIA

For the next 48 hours you can watch the first episode of Faces of Medicine facesofmedicine.org by Emergency Physician-turned-documentary-maker Dr. Khama Ennis! Please watch and share, particularly with aspiring physicians.