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        <description>Amy Faith Ho, MD, MPH is a nationally recognized emergency physician, healthcare executive, and on-air medical expert. Double board-certified in emergency medicine and clinical informatics, she practices in Dallas–Fort Worth while serving as Chief Systems &amp; Informatics Officer of a national emergency medicine group.</description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obesity Dilemma: Pay Now or Pay for What It Becomes Later]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Refusing to pay for obesity treatment now just buys costlier disease later. (Medscape)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[First, Do No Harm. Then Press 'Record.']]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The consent problem hiding inside AI scribes. (Medscape)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[To TrumpRx or Not to TrumpRx: How to Solve Drug Pricing Is the Question]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Drug pricing's newest political fix, weighed against how pricing actually works. (Medscape)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[America the Beautiful, and the Sick]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[What the emergency department sees of a country that is both. (Emergency Medicine News)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Violence in Healthcare: Why Are People So Angry?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The healthcare system has failed us all when we needed it most. (MedPage Today)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What To Do About America's Shrinking Life Expectancy?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[America's life expectancy is shrinking — and what would actually reverse it. (Newsweek)]]></description>
            <category>Healthcare Policy &amp; Access</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why have inaccuracies thrived during the pandemic? Evolving science and politics.]]></title>
            <link>https://fortworthreport.org/2021/09/06/why-have-inaccuracies-thrived-during-the-pandemic-evolving-science-and-politics/</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2021 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A Q&A on why misinformation outran the evolving science. (Fort Worth Report)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[After the Pandemic: Will Emergency Medicine Ever Be the Same?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2021 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Whether emergency medicine ever returns to its pre-COVID normal. (MedPage Today)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Texas doctor's plea to prepare for climate change]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Winter Storm Uri showed me what a public health emergency caused by climate change looks like. The worst is yet to come. (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)]]></description>
            <category>The ER &amp; America</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[First Person: Is Mommy a Doctor or Superhero? A Tribute to Heroes in Medicine]]></title>
            <link>https://doi.org/10.1097/01.EEM.0000734560.83617.a4</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2021 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Emergency Medicine News]]></description>
            <category>Women in Medicine</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ignoring the Sins of Our Patients]]></title>
            <link>https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/940378</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2020 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Treating the patient in front of you, whoever they turn out to be. (Medscape)]]></description>
            <category>The ER &amp; America</category>
            <category>Harm Reduction</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[How COVID-19 caused the U.S. to implement universal healthcare]]></title>
            <link>https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-10-21/covid-universal-healthcare-pandemic</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[As one of the most unassuming side effects of the coronavirus, the U.S., for the first time in its history, set up a system of universal healthcare. (Los Angeles Times)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Heroes From a Distance, 'Lepers' Up Close?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2020 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On being celebrated at 7 p.m. and avoided in the grocery aisle. (Medscape)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[I'm An Emergency Room Physician. Inadequate Access To Health Care Is Breaking Us]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Emergency rooms no longer just exist for emergency care, but now encompass all available care. We are the safety net in health care, but who is ours? (NPR · WBUR On Point)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[An image that reminds us what life versus death looks like]]></title>
            <link>https://kevinmd.com/2019/03/an-image-that-reminds-us-what-life-versus-death-looks-like.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2019 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A single image from the ER, and the line it draws. (KevinMD)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bullets know no boundaries and gun violence doesn't stay in a lane]]></title>
            <link>https://www.chicagotribune.com/2018/11/20/bullets-know-no-boundaries-and-gun-violence-doesnt-stay-in-a-lane/</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[After the Mercy Hospital shooting — gun violence follows us to work. (Chicago Tribune)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Making Doctors Dumber Won't Make Our Health Care System Smarter]]></title>
            <link>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-dumb-doctors-health-care_n_5b89b277e4b0cf7b0035e624</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2018 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Shorter med school curriculums are not the answer to our health care woes. (HuffPost)]]></description>
            <category>Culture of Medicine &amp; Burnout</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bouncing Back: What 'The Resident' Got Right]]></title>
            <link>https://doi.org/10.1097/01.EEM.0000542252.15712.9c</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2018 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[What network TV's most-argued-about medical drama still gets right. (Emergency Medicine News)]]></description>
            <category>Pop Culture &amp; Medicine</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[How every female physician can go from being a nobody to a somebody]]></title>
            <link>https://web.archive.org/web/20240412111720/https://feminem.org/2018/06/12/how-every-female-physician-can-go-from-being-a-nobody-to-a-somebody/</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A field guide to going from unheard to unmissable in medicine. (FemInEM)]]></description>
            <category>Women in Medicine</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wellness Updates and Resources]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2017 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Wellness resources for the ER — interruptions, workplace violence, and harassment. (AWAEM Awareness (Society for Academic Emergency Medicine))]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[If You Can't Afford $4,500 for a Dose of Medicine, You Don't Get to Live]]></title>
            <link>https://truthout.org/articles/if-you-can-t-afford-4-500-for-a-dose-of-medicine-you-don-t-get-to-live/</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Drug pricing, measured in who gets to live. (Truthout)]]></description>
            <category>Healthcare Policy &amp; Access</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[Residency as a series of mini-interventions against physician suicide and depression]]></title>
            <link>https://kevinmd.com/2017/07/residency-series-mini-interventions-physician-suicide-depression.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2017 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Reframing residency's traumatic firsts as chances to intervene early. (KevinMD)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hierarchy and a Culture of Wellness]]></title>
            <link>https://www.saem.org/docs/default-source/awaem/e-newsletter-2017-04-06.pdf</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2017 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Medicine's hierarchy problem is a wellness problem. (AWAEM Awareness (Society for Academic Emergency Medicine))]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Move over Hippocrates: Harm reduction as the new paradigm for health care]]></title>
            <link>https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/30/harm-reduction-health-care/</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2017 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The signature thesis — replace "first, do no harm" with "help with as little harm as possible." (STAT)]]></description>
            <category>Harm Reduction</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[How the ER touches America's untouchables]]></title>
            <link>https://www.chicagotribune.com/2016/12/15/how-the-er-touches-americas-untouchables/</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The ER as the last open door for the people America looks away from. (Chicago Tribune)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pricing structure, not profits, are the problem in the EpiPen scandal]]></title>
            <link>https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/healthcare/297128-pricing-structure-not-profits-are-the-problem-in-the-epipen</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The EpiPen scandal was a pricing-structure problem, not a profit problem. (The Hill)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The importance of Planned Parenthood in the Zika epidemic]]></title>
            <link>https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international/295898-the-importance-of-planned-parenthood-in-the-zika-epidemic</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Why Planned Parenthood mattered in the Zika response. (The Hill)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How 'privatization' may solve the VHA physician shortages]]></title>
            <link>https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/294797-how-privatization-may-solve-the-vha-physician-shortages</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2016 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[What 'privatization' could actually fix in VA physician shortages. (The Hill)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iron curtain of drug pricing will topple the healthcare system]]></title>
            <link>https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/healthcare/294339-th-iron-curtain-of-drug-pricing-will-topple-the-healthcare</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2016 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Opaque drug pricing — and the system it will eventually topple. (The Hill)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[International Patient Transports]]></title>
            <link>https://aaemrsa.blogspot.com/2016/06/international-patient-transports.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2016 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Field notes from international patient repatriation. (AAEM/RSA)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Don't poop where you eat: Mental health services for young physicians]]></title>
            <link>https://kevinmd.com/2015/12/dont-poop-eat-mental-health-services-young-physicians.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2015 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Mental health care young physicians will actually use — away from where they train. (KevinMD)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Chi-Raq trades real lives in Chicago for cheap laughs]]></title>
            <link>https://www.chicagotribune.com/2015/11/08/chi-raq-trades-real-lives-in-chicago-for-cheap-laughs/</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2015 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Spike Lee's satire, reviewed from the emergency room it fictionalizes. (Chicago Tribune)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How our health care system makes ER doctors addiction enablers]]></title>
            <link>https://www.chicagotribune.com/2015/10/08/how-our-health-care-system-makes-er-doctors-addiction-enablers/</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2015 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[How the system turns ER doctors into addiction's enablers. (Chicago Tribune)]]></description>
            <category>Harm Reduction</category>
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            <title><![CDATA[ER Doctor: What it's like to lose a patient]]></title>
            <link>https://www.theblaze.com/contributions/er-doctor-this-is-what-its-like-to-lose-a-patient</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[What it is actually like to lose a patient. (The Blaze)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Reflecting on the first month as a new physician]]></title>
            <link>https://kevinmd.com/2014/08/reflecting-first-month-new-physician.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2014 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The first month with 'MD' after your name. (KevinMD)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How A Nobel Economist Ruined The Residency Matching System For Newly Minted M.D.'s]]></title>
            <link>https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/04/15/how-a-nobel-economist-ruined-the-residency-matching-system-for-newly-minted-m-d-s/</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[How matching theory's Nobel moment shaped residency economics for new MDs. (Forbes)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Being a good medical student doesn't mean you'll be a good doctor]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2013 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Excelling at medical school is not the same as becoming a good doctor. (KevinMD)]]></description>
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