ACEP14 Attendees Pack Freakonomics Opening Session
CHICAGO—The opening sessions of ACEPs past have featured renowned physicians, policy wonks, and the obvious—emergency medicine specialists….
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American Medical Association President-Elect Dissects Obamacare at ACEP14
CHICAGO—Take it from the incoming president of the American Medical Association (AMA): the Affordable Care Act has…
Freaky or Facts: The Economics of Health Care
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, the famed authors of international best-seller Freakonomics and its successor, SuperFreakonomics, will…
ACA Unraveled: Obamacare From the Emergency Medicine Perspective
If anyone can communicate to a room full of emergency physicians the importance of the Affordable Care…
Affordable Care Act from the Emergency Medicine Perspective
If anyone can communicate to a room full of emergency physicians the importance of the Affordable Care…
Resiliency Key to Staying Healthy, Battling Physician Burnout
Jay Kaplan, MD, FACEP, has been giving the ACEP a near-annual pep talk on burnout since the…
Freakonomics Authors Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner Are ACEP14 Keynote Speakers
“We tend to think about [health care] as a totally different realm where the rules of supply…
Pros and Cons of “Fountain of Youth” Treatments
In a boxing match, the divergent camps set themselves up in opposite corners. When it comes to…
Anti-aging Therapies to Combat Low Testosterone Syndrome Set Bad Precedent
Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD, director of PharmedOut, a Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) project whose mission includes educating healthcare…
Medicare Audits Create More Headaches, Delays for Medical Billing
Emergency physicians and hospitals increasingly frustrated with length of audit process, delayed reimbursement on successfully appealed claims…