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<ѻý class="page-title">Perspectives

Calamities, Codes, and Crises

<ѻý class="page-description">Mary C. Meyer, MD, MPH, explores the intersection of healthcare and disasters.

Calamities, Codes, and Crises
Are You Ready for Wildfire Season?

Wildfire season is a double whammy for healthcare workers across the country

August 31, 2024
A photo of a highway running through smoke and fire in Chico, California.
Calamities, Codes, and Crises
If You Build It, They Will Come: EDs Are Victims of Induced Demand

We cannot simply build our way out of the overcrowding and boarding crisis

July 23, 2024
A photo of the emergency entrance to a hospital.
Calamities, Codes, and Crises
Fast-Food Medicine: EDs Desperately Need a New Model of Care

The current system lacks both affordability and efficiency

June 2, 2024
A photo of a busy hospital waiting room.
Calamities, Codes, and Crises
Revisiting the Boston Marathon Bombing a Decade Later

Even now, the emergency still has important lessons to teach us

April 19, 2024
A photo of shoes tied to barricades in a makeshift memorial to victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing.
Calamities, Codes, and Crises
Eulogy for a Healthcare Worker

Medicine's next generation can do it better

March 2, 2024
A photo of signage on the front of a hospital during the COVID pandemic which reads: HEROES WORK HERE
Calamities, Codes, and Crises
Learning to Control Traumatic Hemorrhage Can Prevent Firearm Deaths

Escalating gun violence necessitates widespread bystander response

December 21, 2023
A photo of an ambulance blurred by motion

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