Witnessing the strain on emergency departments across the country has been eye-opening.
From skyrocketing patient-to-nurse ratios to dangerous boarding levels, the challenges keep mounting.
The pandemic only made things worse, with higher costs, infection rates, and mortality.
Medicine has shifted from patient safety to profit-driven decisions, compromising care quality.
Staff are forced into impossible situations, like seeing patients in waiting rooms to falsely reduce wait times.
How has the healthcare environment changed in your experience?
Dr. Ellana Stinson, an emergency medicine physician and president of the New England Medical Association, testified before the Senate HELP Committee.
