Behind the Drapes: Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Meeting with families is a crucial part of working in the ICU. In this episode, I discuss different techniques and strategies that I believe help make for a successful and purposeful family meeting.

In this episode of Collecting My Observations, I recollect some memories of what got me into anesthesia and critical care. Listen along as I walk you through highlights of my medical career from college to medical school to residency.

In this episode, I talk with one of my best friends from medical school, Dr. Jeremy Silver about what it’s like taking care of orthopedic trauma cases. Listen along as he takes us into trauma bay, what serious injuries he needs to stabilize immediately vs what can wait, and how you can avoid finding yourself surrounded by the controlled chaos that is the trauma bay.

In this episode, I share what it’s like being in the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU). During this rotation, I had the opportunity to take care of a couple heart transplant patients. I’ll take you through what a typical plan looked like for these patients from each organ system, head to toe.

In this episode of Collecting My Observation, I describe the feeling of being in the crux of both a student and a teacher. Then I look to one of my mentors who seemed to have stayed in this position of both student and teacher for the entirety of his career. Listen along to find out more!

In this episode, I collect my observations about what qualities make for a good medical student rotating on their sub-I or acting intership in the ICU. I start the episode with my own person away rotation story during my 4th year of medical school, and end the episode talking about 3 qualities that will really go a long away in life.

Welcome to the first episode of Collecting My Observations! In this series, I’ll be giving you and insider look of what my job as an ICU fellow entails! Each episode I’ll go over a personal experience that I believe demonstrates what this year of medical training is all about. In this episode, I go over what it was like describing the first couple of weeks at my new job to my friends and family who don’t have any medical training.

This is the official closure to my residency chapter at Brown. Listen along as 10 anesthesia residents ranging from first years to graduating seniors discuss how their year went. There’s a lot to learn from each of them. As you watch, you’ll hear a common thread woven between their various individual perspectives. I wasn’t really sure what to expect when I reached out to these 10 people or sure of myself to actually make this project happen. But as the interviews progressed and I got deeper invested into this project, my smile got bigger and I started to realize I captured something pretty cool.

If you’re interested in medicine/anesthesia or work alongside anesthesia providers, take a listen to hear how trainees develop over the course of 3 years. I couldn’t help but see myself in each of them and at the same time inspired by what made us different.

And if you’re a brand new resident in July, you just started one of the most rewarding chapters of your life. You learn to selflessly give everything you got to your patients while selfishly try to become the best possible physician you can. You will make mistakes and you will achieve things you didn’t realize were coming your way. You will make sacrifices and you will take shortcuts, but before you know it this time in your life will be over and all eyes will be on you when a patient is crashing in front of you.

The season finale for season 2!! Our last episode on financial literacy is a fun conversation with a good friend, Dr. Andrew Winegarner about his ability to juggle residency and a side hustle. Listen along as we discuss informatics, coding, and what his side hustle entails.

00:40 First Job Ever

05:00 Informatics

12:30 Interest in Coding

14:00 Time Investment During Residency

17:00 What is Your Side Hustle?

20:00 10-year plan

Closing in on the end of the season, we talk with one of my favorite guests, Dr. Shyamal Asher, about everyone’s favorite topic - student loans. Listen along as we discuss Dr. Asher’s personal experience with student loans, basics of repayment types, and if Public Student Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) is for real. 01:30 Personal Experience with Loans

06:30 In-state vs Out-of-state med school costs

09:00 Monthly Budgets

13:30 Subsidized vs. Unsubsidized Loans

16:30 When to Start Planning for Loan Repayment

18:15 Repayment Options & PSLF

26:00 Is PSLF For Real

31:30 How Will the Pandemic Pause Be Remembered?