“I was the first person in my family to go to university and into medicine,” writes FACEM Dr Andy Tagg. “Everything I knew about being a doctor came from watching fictional doctors on TV shows.”
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Identity, social justice and Voice
“It was in the same dust with the other excluded kids outside the classroom that I grew to understand I lived in a segregated community,” writes Sam Beattie, nurse practitioner and proud Ngunnawal/Dhudhuroa/Wurundjeri woman. “I became a nurse as an act of social justice.”
FACEMs lead project to demystify psychoactive substances
Professor Daniel Fatovich and Dr Jessamine Soderstrom discuss the decades-long journey towards creating a national register for new and novel psychoactive substances.
How could the 2023 Australian federal budget impact EDs?
The 2023 Australian Federal Budget should have a positive impact on EDs – but in ways that may not be immediately obvious, writes James Gray, ACEM’s Acting General Manager for Policy and Regional Engagement.