ACEP 2013 WhiteCoat Recap

I arrived at ACEP’s 2013 Scientific Assembly a day early to attend the Council Meeting and to meet up with some old friends. The venue for the gathering was good. Transportation, hotels, dining, and shopping all within easy walking distance from the Convention Center. The Convention Center itself was rather oddly situated. Had to take escalators up four floors to get to lectures. Staff was uniformly pleasant and helpful. Some of the issues at the Council Meeting that had the most vigorous debate seemed tangentially related to emergency medicine. If I hear one more proposed resolution about marijuana, I’m going to go postal on someone. We’re the American College of Emergency Physicians, not the American College of Emergency Potheads. If the “Joint” Commission wants to smoke marijuana during their days off, that’s their business. Don’t smoke it directly before or during your shifts and stop with all the resolutions about it. If you were in court and submitted the same topic for judicial consideration half as many times as it has been submitted to the ACEP Council, you would have been sanctioned a long time ago. And a 25 minute debate followed by an emergency physician Council vote on breastfeeding? I’m a breastfeeding advocate and my wife has breastfed all of our kids, but how are breastfeeding rights relevant to emergency medicine? A resolution to follow state laws relating to breastfeeding is a waste of Council time. I’m just hoping that ...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tags: Random Thoughts ACEP Source Type: blogs