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Thomas D. Kirsch

Washington, D.C.
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Covers:  Healthcare. disasters and humanitarian emergencies, ethics, health and mental health, outdoors, adventure and travel
Emergency doc, disaster med and public health expert, writer, and austere environment geek. Tweets are my own. Retweet or like is not endorsement. BE SAFE!

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Thomas D. Kirsch’s Biography

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Dr. Thomas Kirsch is an emergency physician, author, and expert in emergency, wilderness, and disaster medicine. In 2014, President Obama recognized his work in a White House event honoring, ‘Heroes in Healthcare Fighting Ebola.’ He is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the George Washington School of Medicine and International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

He is a renowned disaster scientist and educator who authored over 175 scientific articles, textbook cha…

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Trail Angels in the Time of COVID

Trail Angels in the Time of COVID

We all need to be good to one another as COVID sweeps the nation.

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Healthcare Workers Deserve Better Protection from Corona Virus Disease

Healthcare Workers Deserve Better Protection from Corona Virus Disease

Deaths of health care workers of COVID-19 are a testament to their ethical duties and heroic frontline effort…

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What Happens If Health-Care Workers Stop Showing Up?

What Happens If Health-Care Workers Stop Showing Up?

Unless the country does dramatically more to provide them with the equipment they need to do their job safely…

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Opinion | The nightmare of rationing health care

Opinion | The nightmare of rationing health care

There are no “ethical norms” in catastrophes like the COVID pandemic. There is only rationing, and what makes…

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https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20180720.168527/full/

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20180720.168527/full/

The need for an objective, structured method to evaluate natural and human-caused mass casualty and disaster …

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AHA and Red Cross Life Support Certifications Should Both Be Accepted

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By Arthur L. Kellermann, Thomas D. Kirsch
| ACEP Now (Formerly ACEP News) Verified
For decades, only one major organization—the American Heart Association (AHA)—provided standardized training and certifications in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS). This changed in 2019 when the American Red Cross rolled out a suite of courses that teach the same science and skills in a more learner-centered way.
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COVID is killing the nation's workforce - The Supreme Court needs to act now

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By Thomas D. Kirsch
| The Hill Verified
American workers are dying at an unprecedented rate — thousands of healthcare workers have already been killed by COVID-19. The Supreme Court may allow this to continue. On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 807,050 healthcare worker infections and 3,067 deaths. But they acknowledge that this is a vast undercount — the tally is based on fewer than 20 percent of COVID-19 case reports that list the occupation of the infected person.
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Climate Resilience: It Is Time for a National Approach

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By Scott Deitchman, Thomas D. Kirsch, Paul Auerbach Verified, Alice Hill
| Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Human-induced climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of climate-related hazardous events. To prevent these events from becoming disasters, communities must identify, assess, and reduce their vulnerabilities to these hazards. Currently available resources are not coordinated across agencies and often are not validated, leaving community planners with the burden of determining which tools will be most useful for their individual needs.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Freelance reporter for the Washington Post after the Haiti earthquake

Have you ever used a typewriter?

No

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Undermining facts and expertise