Podcast of ExBEM: Episode 50- Emergency Medicine: Heading the Wrong Direction? Part 2
Covid 19 has exposed a dirty little secret that emergency physicians have helped keep for decades- there is not enough to go around. Unfortunately th...
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Contrarian ideas and commentary on important topics in emergency medicine drawn from the experience of 35 years of practice as an emergency physician. Published monthly, the lessons discussed will be controversial and relevant to the practicing clinician.
Podcast of ExBEM: Episode 49 - Emergency Medicine: Heading the Wrong Direction?
The specialty of Emergency Medicine sprang into being in order to fill a need. I'm concerned that we've lost sight of that need as we train those to ...
Podcast of ExBEM: Episode 48 - Is There Really an "Opiate Crisis"? -Part 3
Pretending that there exists an "opiate crisis" obscures our society's real, much more difficult health crisis. On this episode I discuss what these r...
Podcast of ExBEM: Episode 47 - Is There Really an "Opiate Crisis"? -Part 2
Overdose deaths have tripled since our society acknowledged and declared war on an "opiate crisis". Not surprising since much bigger problems are to ...
Podcast of ExBEM: Episode 46 - Is There Really an "Opiate Crisis"?
Unquestionably Americans are tragically dying of drug overdoses each day. In this episode I explain why calling this an "opiate crisis" is a smokescre...
Podcast of ExBEM: Episode 45- Coronavirus: Lessons Learned in 2020- Part Four
What will be the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic? On this episode I offer predictions regarding what to expect as we survey the post Covid 19 la...
Podcast of ExBEM: Episode 44 - Coronavirus: Lessons Learned in 2020- Part Three
One year ago there was no data or experience to guide us as we struggled to defend ourselves against the Covid 19 pandemic. We therefore relied on ou...
Podcast of ExBEM: Episode 43 - Coronavirus: Lessons Learned in 2020- Part Two
In the year since the first patients with Covid 19 arrived in our emergency departments, physicians have learned some hard lessons about treating this...
Podcast of ExBEM: Episode 42 - Coronavirus: Lessons Learned in 2020- Part One
Data collected in 2020 has allowed us to paint an objective picture of the Covid 19 pandemic that seems quite different than the portrayal fed to us b...
Podcast of ExBEM: Episode 41 - How People Die : Part Two
The rate of successful resuscitation of patients having a cardiac arrest in the hospital have not improved during the last 40 years that hospital pers...