Ari B Friedman
@abfriedman
This is my personal account. Faculty at UPenn. Emergency doc, health economist, geriatrics and privacy researcher. Views are my own. RT does not imply endorsement.
Upcoming free talk from Penn CECPR 🚑️ Workplace violence against nurses, physicians, and staff in Emergency Departments Drs. K. Jane Muir and Anish Agarwal Monday, July 13th at 1pm EST 🚑️ Register for this talk: pennmedicine.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 🚑️ Future talks: www.coretalks.org
Next Care, Outcomes, and Reform of Emergency Systems Talk (www.coretalks.org) is @lorenadler.bsky.social , Friday, June 26th at 1pm EST. "Corporate Medicine in the ED: Staffing, Coding, and Patient Outcomes After Private Equity Entry." Register here: pennmedicine.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Excited for our #ASHEcon panel TUESDAY 10:15am on natural experiments in acute care. Papers on decisionmaking in surgeon-anesthesiologist dyads, emergency attending peer dyads, and clustering of patient acuities. ashecon.confex.com/ashecon/2026...
In case you were wondering how good we are at detecting cognitive impairment in the ED absent a systematic approach to do so, here are clock draws from 63 patients discharged from a single ED. In @annalsofem.bsky.social : www.annemergmed.com/article/S019...
Free online CORE Talk (coretalks.org) tomorrow outlining Dr. Mashid Abir's vision for a 21st century U.S. health system optimally responsive to the needs of patients and communities. (registration link on website)
From my grandmother's story: "One by one our good decent teachers disappeared and instead Nazi teachers replaced them."
Next CORE Talk (Care, Outcomes, and Reform of Emergency Systems): Dr. Laura Burke on "The Medicare Urgent Care Boom: Trends, Drivers, and Impacts" Visit coretalks.org to register for this talk and to signup for the newsletter.
We are excited to launch our new talk series: Care, Outcomes, and Reform of Emergency Systems (CORE) Talks. Free Zoom seminars on policy-relevant evidence about EDs, telemedicine, and urgent care. www.coretalks.org Today at 11a EST, Dr. Jesse Pines, “How AI May Transform Emergency Care.”
There's a new telescope this week. Dreamed up in 1998. NSF first funded it in 2005. Its camera sensor is measured in feet. It cost $2B. For that we learn about the universe and not get wiped out by an asteroid like the dinosaurs. We can do great things, when we dream, plan, work, and fund them.
If only there were people who spent their lives studying economies who could be consulted before making crucial decisions about the economy.
Spent my lazy academic Sunday working on power analyses for a R01 proposal and 3d printing a bracket for a paper consent lockbox so we can do remote enrollment for my K.
Walking in to work at the same time as my airborne colleagues. Stay safe everyone.
Today I sat 1 block from the NIH at a scientific conference and was unable to talk to my government scientific representatives.
Continued (deliberate) erosion of the norms that made our economy so effective in the 20th century. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
If you see this you have to post a picture from your phone but don’t explain it
Just had the library 3d print up a cric trainer. Very cool teaching aid, and a sign of medical education to come.
So when economists say we’re living in a very concentrated era…. www.axios.com/2023/12/08/a...
For any grouping of hospitals we studied, abortion was almost never discussed on hospital websites compared to another common procedure performed by health systems, colonoscopy. doi.org/10.7326/M23-1389