Posts Tagged "Elizabeth Askin"

Medical Students Write Handbook for their Peers

Posted by Costs of Care on Jun 25, 2012 in Blog | 3 comments

Elisabeth Askin is a third year medical student at Washington University in St Louis and co-author of The Health Care Handbook for medical students. In 2008, I volunteered at the San Francisco General Hospital Emergency Room, enrolling patients in research studies. One study correlated clinical signs in trauma patients with positive findings on chest x-rays, so that orders could be better informed and more efficient. And efficiency was certainly needed – I was stunned to learn that only 3% of trauma chest x-rays yield positive results. That’s a lot of time, money, and energy for very...