Podcast of ExBEM Donald W. Crowe, MD
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- Health & Fitness
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.
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Podcast of ExBem: Episode 68 : Closing the "Sale"
I once thought that having made a diagnosis and recommended its treatment that I could now move to the next patient. Experience has taught me however, that it is now that the crucial work begins.
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Podcast of ExBem: Episode 67 : Why Artificial Intelligence Can't Do my Job (Yet)
Ready or not artificial intelligence is here. Does this mean that physicians are soon to be out of a job? On this episode I explain why our positions are secure, at least for now....
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Podcast of ExBem : Episode 66 : Lessons From My Patient Experience
After a month to process my emergency appendectomy, on this episode I describe my "take aways" from my encounter, or should I say collision, with modern American medicine.
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Podcast of ExBem: Episode 65 : The Other End of the Stethoscope- When the Doctor Needs a Doctor
I have had little experience being a patient... until now. On this episode I share what it was like on the other end of the stethoscope, or in my case the scalpel.
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Podcast of ExBem: Episode 64 : The "Product" That We Sell
Hospital administration continually reminds me that emergency medicine is a business. If so, this begs the question - what are we selling? On this episode I describe why my recent experience suggests that what we are selling is not really what our patients are looking to buy.
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Podcast of ExBem: Episode 63 : What an Emergency Physician is Not
Enormous pressure is being applied to turn emergency departments and the specialists who run them into something the were not meant to be. This shift in focus threatens both our medical system and our patients. On this episode I describe these changes and their origins.