In its September issue, The New England Journal of Medicine published a letter to the editor titled “Navigating the Discontinuity Crisis in Medical Education.”
Professor Stephen Schenkel, MD, MPP, Associate Professor Daniel Gingold, MD, MPH, and Assistant Professor Ryan Spangler, MD penned the letter, which was a response to a case vignette the journal published in June.
In their letter, included below, Drs. Schenkel, Gingold, and Spangler argue that current tools allow academic emergency medicine physicians to enhance their patients’ continuity in care—rather than contributing to discontinuities, as Warm et al. previously suggested.
