By ACEP Now | The Official voice of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Hall recently sat down with Andrea Green, MD, FACEP, an emergency physician and chair of ACEP’s Diversity, Inclusion, and Health Equity Section, to discuss his career. Here are some highlights from that discussion.
Since leaving Mexico, I’ve found the knowledge I picked up within the program highly useful. I strongly advocate for junior as well as senior colleagues, with all levels of Spanish to find a way to participate in this program at some point in their lives. As a residency elective, it was a once in a lifetime experience. As a life experience, it’s one that I plan to embrace again and again.
By Warner, Keith Douglass OFM, PhD | from The Emergency Medicine News Journal
About 21% of Mexico's population lives in rural areas, yet only 2.3% of the country's 259,000 practicing physicians work there. That may seem like an insurmountable problem to some, but to Haywood Hall, MD, a high-school-dropout-turned-emergency-physician, it was a perfect opportunity to found PACE MD, a program that aims to enhance health care delivery in Mexico.
By Scheck, Anne | from The Emergency Medicine News Journal
When Haywood Hall, MD, became an emergency physician many years ago, he seemed symbolic of the American dream. Here was a Mexican-born, pulled-up-by-his-bootstraps high-school dropout who, thanks to personal grit, beat tough odds to become a doctor. But after surmounting so many obstacles, he found he couldn't get past the one lurking in every patient encounter…
