Condition: Critical

Taylor Nichols, MD
3 min readOct 24, 2023

The US Healthcare system is collapsing.

Emergency Departments across the country are closing. Emergency Medicine physicians are in high demand now, as more physicians leave while the patient volume continues to skyrocket.

People stopped caring about us seemingly weeks into the pandemic, and then they vilified us.

Those who aren’t paying attention to the state of those currently in medicine, and more importantly the pipeline of those entering or potentially entering medicine, need to start paying attention and becoming significantly concerned.

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Taylor Nichols, MD

Humanist. Emergency Medicine and AddictiEmergency + Addiction Medicine | Health policy and advocacy | Health tech and innovation