What is best for our patients or for the specialty? Dr. Radtke is correct that the financial benefit of open College membership will be minimal. But can we afford to exclude colleagues who work alongside us for the sake of our values and commitment to representing all emergency physicians? And, most important, our patients (in the EDs of the entire United States, including rural areas)? Dr. Smith is right in stating that “we shouldn’t invite them to join, we should ask them to join.”
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ACEP Now: Vol 33 – No 09 – September 2014—W. Anthony Gerard, MD, FACEP
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