Podcast of ExBEM Donald W. Crowe, MD

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.

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....

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.

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.

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.  

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.