The World Needs Better Emergency Care. We're Here to Help.
Welcome to Critical Good, a platform dedicated to increasing the impact and effectiveness of emergency medicine. We believe emergency physicians have untapped potential—not just for saving individual lives, but for significantly improving health systems. Critical Good serves as a central resource for doctors committed to high impact emergency medicine.
Our Vision
We envision a world where emergency medicine is strategically impactful, addressing disease control priorities effectively, responding to health system needs, and overcoming resource constraints.
You became an Emergency Physician to save lives. Let us help you save more.
Theory of Change
Emergency physicians are uniquely skilled to drive systemic change and impact clinical outcomes. We identify strategic and actionable insights through the lens of effective altruism so that doctors can save more lives and improve health systems.
Insights → Awareness
We analyze and share insights on how emergency medicine can be optimized for greater impact. We identify, analyze, and share high impact interventions, skills, resource allocation strategies, policy levers, and care models.
Awareness → Action
By equipping doctors with pragmatic and actionable insights, we supercharge clinical practice by providing more clarity on how best to use our skillset. We advocate for both individual and system wide improvements in training, resource allocation, and emergency care delivery.
Action → Impact
When emergency care is optimized for effectiveness, more lives are saved per dollar spent, emergency systems become more resilient, and physicians increase their impact at, and beyond, the bedside.
What to Expect from Critical Good
Over time you can expect posts that:
- Break down the global burden of emergency care-sensitive conditions, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.
- Examine effect estimates for emergency care interventions, drawing from literature, modeling, and clinical trials.
- Explore systems-level strategies for emergency care development, from financing to human resources to clinical governance.
- Introduce tools and frameworks from effective altruism, moral philosophy, and global priorities research—and test their application in emergency medicine.
- Offer policy-relevant insights for ministries of health, funders, implementers, and clinicians.
- Reflect critically on the limits of our knowledge, including posts on reasoning transparency, bias, and epistemic humility.
Along the way, I’ll share resources, reading lists, and research tools that I find useful. I also welcome collaboration and critique. If you're working at the intersection of emergency care and global health—whether as a clinician, policymaker, researcher, or advocate—I hope you'll find something here that challenges your thinking or sharpens your practice.
About the Founder
Dylan Collins MD, PhD, is a physician and health system scientist focused on increasing the impact and effectiveness of emergency medicine. Dylan combines frontline clinical experience with expertise in health systems development, clinical epidemiology, and social impact.
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