Summary: <div class="pf-content"> <p>Associate Professor Diana Egerton-Warburton is an emergency physician in Melbourne and chair of the Public Health committee of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine. Rather than focus on treating one patient at a time though she has made it her mission to advocate for change.</p> <p>In this talk she shares the story of how one patient, Abbie, helped her understand the true long lasting effects of alcohol consumption in youth. The knock effects of this have led to <a href="https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2014/200/10/should-legal-age-alcohol-purchase-be-raised-21" target="_blank" rel="noopener">her campaigning for stricter licensing laws</a>. With one in eight patients attending the emergency department as a result of alcohol we can truly make a difference.</p> </div>
