Joint Statement

To our fellow citizens, friends, and families, We are faced today with a health care crisis the likes of which we’ve never before encountered. This rapidly spreading pandemic will require everyone to do their part to slow and eventually stop its spread. Everything turns on our willingness to work together toward this solidarity of purpose: […]

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians are being asked to make difficult clinical decisions with limited resources. Patient care decisions that may be best for an individual patient may not be feasible or appropriate when viewed in context of the entire population. On March 13, 2020, President Trump declared a nationwide emergency pursuant to […]

Authors: Haig Aintablian, MDa; Gabriel Stahl, MDb; Gregory Jasani, MDb; Hannah R. Hughes, MD MBAc; Allison Beaulieu, MDd; Nehal Naik, MDe; Christina Hornack, DOf aAmerican Academy of Emergency Medicine Resident and Student Association (AAEM/RSA), PresidentbAmerican Academy of Emergency Medicine Resident and Student Association (AAEM/RSA), Member-at-LargecEmergency Medicine Residents’ Association, PresidentdCouncil of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine, Resident […]

AAEM/RSA Signs on to Joint Statements Regarding COVID-19

Authors: Dhimitri Nikolla, DO, Hannah R. Hughes, MD MBA, Allison Beaulieu, MD, Haig Aintablian, MD, Nehal Naik, MD Statement: On June 30, 2019, Philadelphia Academic Health System, LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which left 570 residents and fellows in training at Hahnemann University Hospital scrambling for new sites to work and train.1-2,9 On Sept. 5, 2019, the sale of Hahnemann’s […]