Episode 49 Effective Patient Communication, Patient Centered Care and Patient Satisfaction
If you believe that coping with some of the people we deal with in emergency medicine is difficult or impossible, you’re not alone. We all feel this way from time to time. We all work in stressful en...
11 Aug 20141h 14min
Best Case Ever 28: Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis
Dr. David Carr presents his second of Carr's Cases. This series features some potentially life-threatening diagnoses that may be perceived as zebras, but actually have a higher incidence then we might...
6 Aug 201413min
Episode 48 – Pediatric Fever Without A Source
Have you ever seen a child in your emergency department with a fever - he asks sarcastically? At the ginormous community hospital where I work, we see about 25,000 kids each year in our ED and about h...
23 Jul 20141h 14min
Best Case Ever 27: Pediatric Shock
Ottawa this year, I had the pleasure of discussing pediatric shock and sepsis with Dr. Sarah Reid, a good medical school friend of mine from the Gretzky Year ('99) graduating class. I knew back then t...
16 Jul 20146min
Episode 47: Evidence Based Medicine from NYGH EMU Conference 2014
Dr. Walter Himmel (the 'walking encyclopedia of EM') gave a fantastic talk from North York General's Emergency Medicine Update Conference in Toronto, which have edited into a podcast with key commenta...
8 Jul 201448min
Best Case Ever 26: Chloral Hydrate Poisoning and Cardiac Arrest
I met up with Mike Betzner at North York General's Update in EM Conference in Toronto. He is the medical director of Air Transport STARS air ambulance out of Calgary and an amazing speaker on the nati...
3 Jul 20149min
Episode 46 – Social Media and Emergency Medicine Learning
In early June of this year I caught up with Dr. Rob Rogers of iTeach EM and The Teaching Course, Dr. Ken Milne of The Skeptics Guide to EM and Dr. Brent Thoma of Academic Life in EM and Boring EM at t...
24 Jun 20141h 10min
Episode 45: NYGH EM Update Conference 2014
This past May in Toronto, the largest and, in my opinion, best Canadian EM conference, North York General Hospital's Emergency Medicine Update Conference, attracted 'Captain Cortex' himself, Stuart Sw...
6 Jun 20141h 1min
