Joshua Elder, MD, MPH
Joshua Elder is an emergency physician and can be reached on Twitter @joshuawelder.
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Health policy
Digital health equity is a new crisis that connects urban and rural health and impacts unique and diverse populations. Based on the World Health Organization, “health equity is defined as the absence of unfair and avoidable or remediable differences in…
Digital health equity is a new crisis that connects urban and rural health and impacts unique and diverse populations. Based on the World Health Organization, “health equity is defined as the absence of unfair and avoidable or remediable differences in health among population groups defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically.” As health systems begin to expand and refine their digital health systems, digital health equity should be a fundamental aspect …
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Digital health equity is an emerging gap in health
Physician voices
Working as an emergency physician at a level 1 trauma center and as an Army reserve officer, you learn to expect the unexpected – but working as the ER doctor taking care of patients impacted by the most deadly and…
Working as an emergency physician at a level 1 trauma center and as an Army reserve officer, you learn to expect the unexpected – but working as the ER doctor taking care of patients impacted by the most deadly and destructive wildfire in California history last year changed me.
As I walked into work last year to start my clinical shift as the attending emergency physician, our hospital began receiving multiple …
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A physician’s perspective on California’s Camp Fire
Physician voices
My wife who is eight months pregnant went to a routine prenatal appointment last week. She told the OB doctor that she was concerned she had pink eye. OB providers, along with pediatrics, family medicine, and internal medicine all constitute…
My wife who is eight months pregnant went to a routine prenatal appointment last week. She told the OB doctor that she was concerned she had pink eye. OB providers, along with pediatrics, family medicine, and internal medicine all constitute primary care providers (PCP) and pink eye is a common primary care condition.
Surprisingly, the OB physician referred her to the nearest acute care facility. Attributing this provider’s recommendation as rare …
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My primary care doctor sent me to the emergency department
Health policy
I recently took care of a woman in her 50s that came to our emergency department (ED) complaining of chest pain. The pain had started shortly before arriving in the ED but within minutes, we performed a battery of tests,…
I recently took care of a woman in her 50s that came to our emergency department (ED) complaining of chest pain. The pain had started shortly before arriving in the ED but within minutes, we performed a battery of tests, treated her pain, and gave her an aspirin. Still concerned about heart disease being the cause of her pain, I observed her overnight in our EDs observation unit and completed …
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Freestanding emergency departments: The model we need to study
Physician voices
Ebola is frightening but not for the reason you may imagine. A little over a year ago Asiana Flight 214 crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport resulting in 181 injuries and 3 deaths. As an emergency medicine resident,…
Ebola is frightening but not for the reason you may imagine.
A little over a year ago Asiana Flight 214 crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport resulting in 181 injuries and 3 deaths. As an emergency medicine resident, this fast-forwarded my training as I took care of many of the patients arriving in our emergency department. I left that day inspired that I had the education and training to …
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Ebola presents a new paradigm from the ER
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