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The Health Affairs article "Understanding and Addressing Health Worker Burnout and Moral Injury" examines the escalating crisis of emotional and ethical distress among healthcare professionals, particularly intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic. It delves into the concepts of burnout and moral…
Long-term cannabis users may be unknowingly at risk for a painful and costly condition called cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, which causes severe nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.
More than 20 dedicated first responders from Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia graduated from the inaugural cohort of the SMHS Paramedic Program.
The annual NVC awards ceremony takes place in Jack Morton Auditorium, where the winners of the four vertical tracks find out their placements and prizes.
A mother hesitates in a Texas emergency department, cradling her feverish child, unsure whether to proceed with treatment. Her fear isn’t just about the illness—it’s about the question she knows the hospital will ask: “What is your citizenship status?”
Emergency medicine (EM) is a team-based specialty, where a diverse group works together to rapidly deliver acute, unscheduled patient care. In contrast to traditional teams that have the luxury of time for their members to build rapport, teams in the emergency department (ED) change every day.…
Sikka is chief of the Innovative Practice and Telehealth section at GW Medical Faculty Associates and professor of emergency medicine in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS). He came to GW for emergency medicine residency training in 2000 and joined the faculty in 2003. He co-…
At “Trauma Survivor’s Day,” patients who suffered some of the most acute injuries shared their stories and thanked medical staff.
The Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity U.S. + Global (AFHE), part of the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity (Mullan Institute) at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, is thrilled to announce its 2025 cohort — a diverse group of 15 emerging…
One day in a simulation lab during her emergency medicine residency at the George Washington University, Liz Clayborne, RESD ’15, was performing a mock procedure on a mannequin’s face—specifically its nose—when she realized how useful it would be if there were a device that would stop the…