Dr. Jacques Lee’s vision for Geriatric Emergency Medicine, Bringing the overlooked into focus
Athena Li, IMS Magazine
“Unless you’re a paediatrician or an obstetrician, you’re a geriatrician,” says Dr. Jacques Lee, an emergency physician at Mount Sinai Hospital and Research Chair in Geriatric Emergency Medicine (GEM) at Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute (SREMI).
With a growing aging population, patients 65 years and older account for over 25% of all Emergency Department (ED) visits in Canada as of 2014. The future of emergency medicine demands attention to how well we care for this older population.
