Pigs at Brown

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has coordinated a national effort to replace pigs with high-fidelity manikins in training emergency room doctors how to perform a cricothyrotomy or surgical airway. Over 95% of emergency medicine residency programs now use manikins, but Brown University continues to breed and slaughter pigs unnecessarily.

Here’s my recent opinion in the Providence Journal.

And this narrative piece describes the issue toward the end.