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Podcast: Clinician's Roundtable
Episode: Health Reform and Myths About the Emergency Department
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Host: Bruce Japsen
Guest: Angela Gardner, MD
As healthcare reforms take place, changes are also in the offing in the emergency department amid demands that EDs be able to turn attention from treatment of routine conditions to disasters and other true emergencies. Dr. Angela Gardner, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians, tells host Bruce Japsen about tomorrow's needs for the emergency department, which will have a greater role as health reform is implemented and patients seek primary care.