Dr. Baine is Chief Resident at Stanford Kaiser’s emergency medicine residency program and the EMRA representative for ACEP’s Ethics Committee and Well-Being Committee. Dr. Farley is Assistant Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Del.; Assistant Professor at Jefferson Medical College; and president of the Delaware ACEP chapter.

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