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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. And today's topic is emergency room issues, especially dealing with the pediatric age group. We have a great guest. and a great friend who I'll get into in just a second. We have a wonderful staff that helps us get these shows out to you in a successful way.

Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. And today's topic is emergency room issues, especially dealing with the pediatric age group. We have a great guest. and a great friend who I'll get into in just a second. We have a wonderful staff that helps us get these shows out to you in a successful way.

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Maddie Levine-Wolfe and Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard and Sheridan Nygaard all do our background research for us on all our various topics. Sheridan also helps us with marketing. And also there's Matthew Campbell, who's our production manager, who really puts all the details to the show, adds a little bit of music, edits everything and gets it out to you, the listening audience.

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So thank you to you guys. You are second to none. And then of course, there's Clarence Jones, my co-host for Health Chatter. We've been doing this for a while. We're having great, great time. I was talking to him the other day and he says, God, Stan, I think we're overachievers on this podcast.

He said, when we first started out, we were thinking about doing a show monthly and we're getting shows out weekly, which is really, really good. It also indicates that we aren't devoid of topics in healthcare, if you can imagine that. Clarence, second to none, you're the best. So thanks for being involved with us.

He said, when we first started out, we were thinking about doing a show monthly and we're getting shows out weekly, which is really, really good. It also indicates that we aren't devoid of topics in healthcare, if you can imagine that. Clarence, second to none, you're the best. So thanks for being involved with us.

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You could check out both of our webcasts, or our, excuse me, our podcast on healthshatterpodcast.com. You can also check out Human Partnership and their Their information is also available on our website. So thank you to everybody. So let's get going. Today, we're talking about pediatric ER concerns.

I have a great colleague and friend and neighbor who actually lives right across the alley from where I live in South Minneapolis, And that's Dr. Jeff Lewis. So Jeff is Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota.

I have a great colleague and friend and neighbor who actually lives right across the alley from where I live in South Minneapolis, And that's Dr. Jeff Lewis. So Jeff is Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota.

Got his background at Loyola University in Chicago, residency in Maryland, University of Maryland Fellowship. And at the Children's Hospital in Pennsylvania. So he's been around the country a little bit, getting some useful insights. He's very, very insightful. I must say that as far as ER issues are concerned. And I'll tell you a quick story. I was sitting right next to Jeff just a few weeks ago.

Got his background at Loyola University in Chicago, residency in Maryland, University of Maryland Fellowship. And at the Children's Hospital in Pennsylvania. So he's been around the country a little bit, getting some useful insights. He's very, very insightful. I must say that as far as ER issues are concerned. And I'll tell you a quick story. I was sitting right next to Jeff just a few weeks ago.

at a fundraiser and we were just chatting away and I said, so how are things in the ER? And then he proceeded to tell me about some real issues that are hitting the scene, which we'll get into. So I said, Jeff, you gotta be on health chatter. He said, let's do it. So here we are today. So Jeff, thanks for being with us. It's a pleasure, pleasure being with us. So let's start out.

at a fundraiser and we were just chatting away and I said, so how are things in the ER? And then he proceeded to tell me about some real issues that are hitting the scene, which we'll get into. So I said, Jeff, you gotta be on health chatter. He said, let's do it. So here we are today. So Jeff, thanks for being with us. It's a pleasure, pleasure being with us. So let's start out.

with the issue that really kind of brought this to the forefront. And that's mainly, it's kind of around two major issues that are facing the ER, especially for kids, and that's mental health. And also, ironically, kind of, and curiously, residential placement. So take it from there, Jeff. Maybe you can kind of tee it up and then we can talk about it.