MacEmerg Podcast

Episode 49 - Toxic Shock Syndrome Case & Supraglottic Airways vs Intubation in OOHCA by Mac Emerg

March 27, 2023

Welcome to Episode 48 of our MacEmerg podcast.

In this episode:

In this episode we feature Dr. Blair Bigham - journalist, intensivist, and emergency physician. Blair is interviewed by Dr. Teresa Chan about his adventures after graduation and what he's been working on lately around Digital Scholarship and healthcare advocacy!

Then we have Drs. Alim Nagji and Teresa Chan for a segment of Teaching that counts, speaking specifically about Curriculum Leadership

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Welcome to Episode 47 of our MacEmerg podcast. Please take a moment to complete our survey, sharing with us your thoughts on our podcast! This will help us continue to make quality content best suited for our listeners!

In this episode we feature a panel discussion that was co-hosted by Drs. Teresa Chan and Kevin Dong, and featuring Sarrah Lal (Director of the Velocity incubator and newest non-clinician members of the DoM EM division) and Dr. Christian Rose (Stanford University). Together they discuss the future of technology and emergency medicine.

Friday, January 13, 2023

Welcome to Episode 46 of our MacEmerg podcast. Please take a moment to complete our survey, sharing with us your thoughts on our podcast! This will help us continue to make quality content best suited for our listeners!

In this episode:

Our newest resident correspondent (Dr. Gurinder Sandhu) interviews two of his PGY1 co-residents (Dr. Tabitha MacGuire & Dr. G. Garrett McDougall) who have had experience in the military prior to residency. Together they explore what elements of military life have informed their approach to emergency medicine.

Welcome to Episode 46 of our MacEmerg podcast. Please take a moment to complete our survey, sharing with us your thoughts on our podcast! This will help us continue to make quality content best suited for our listeners!

In this episode:

1) Whatever happened to.... Sarah McClennan! Teresa Chan connects with one of our McMaster FRCPC Emergency Medicine program alumni.

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This month we are giving a bit of our space to a few med student colleagues of ours who have been working alongside our own Dr. Ben Forestell to create a really neat reflection about the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tales from the Front Line: A Pandemic Podcast

The Novel Coronavirus 19 pandemic is an event to be remembered in the history books, the epidemiology texts, and healthcare seminars. The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been discussed endlessly since early 2020. Frontline workers have been reported on extensively but what about their own stories? Since the pandemic began, frontline workers including emergency physicians have worked to save their communities from COVID-19. Their stories deserve to be heard

Tales from the Frontline brings us back to the dawning of the epidemic through the lens of three emergency physicians – Dr. Teresa Chan, Dr. Kevin Dong and Dr. Jonathan Sherbino. The podcast explores the origins of the pandemic and initial reactions by providers to the news. The uncertainty is palpable, fear is brewing, and no one knows how long this will go on for.

In this stand-alone special, we take you back to March 2020. The pandemic has arrived, and with it questions around transmission and severity abound. There is no playbook and policies change every day in the emergency room. As the cases grow, emergency physicians become increasingly aware of their role in fighting this virus as frontline healthcare workers. The perspectives provided by the doctors in the episode will give audiences a better understanding of what it felt like to be part of the initial task force that faced the virus head on. With the sounds of the emergency room in your ears, our experts bring you right into the doctor’s charting room during this time.

Narrated and written by Katie van Kampen, a third year medical student and storyteller, the podcast grew from a love of narratives and wanting to give doctors a platform to reflect on the origins of the pandemic.

The pandemic started not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Produced by Dr. Ben Forestell

Directed by Katie van Kampen

Written by Katie van Kampen

Edited by Nadia Huytan Maruchak, Clare Fiala

Interviews by Gloria Kim, Elisabeta Moglan and Katie Baas-Sylvester

Audio Design by Krzysztof Kowalik

Promotion by Michelle Chen

Note: All the news clips are used within fair use copyright laws as a remix of individual clips, and used for commentary purposes.

Asian Hate Crimes in US - Al Jazeera - Apr 1 2020

Asian Racism - ABC News - Mar 12, 2020

Asian Racism 2 - ABC News - Mar 12, 2020

Asian Racism Canada - Global News - Jun 7, 2020

BRAZIL - Novel coronoavirus - Record News - Jan 15, 2020

China - Stay Put - BBC News Jan 22, 2020

First US Case - CNN - Jan 22, 2020

FRENCH - Asia Panic - C a Dire - Jan 21, 2020

Miraculous Mandarin - Budapest Festival Orchestra

Mystery Virus - Sky News - Jan 18, 2020

POLISH - Wuhan - Gazeta.pl - Feb 18, 2020

Spreading Beyond China - CityNews - Jan 18, 2020

Trump China Virus - LA Times - Mar 18 2020

Trump China Virus Rally - Kung Flu - LA Times - June 20, 2020

Wuhan Lockdown - NBC - Jan 22, 2020

Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022

Welcome to Episode 44 of our MacEmerg podcast. Please take a moment to complete our survey, sharing with us your thoughts on our podcast! This will help us continue to make quality content best suited for our listeners!

In this episode:

Whatever happened to.... Glen Bandiera! Teresa Chan connects with one of our McMaster FRCPC Emergency Medicine program alumni.

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Welcome to Episode 43 of our MacEmerg podcast.

In this episode:

1) Whatever happened to... Dr. Teresa Chan interviews Dr. Josh Williams - one of our MacEmerg alumni - who has gone on to take on new challenges at new heights in Kelowna, BC.

2) Dr. Ben Forestell interviews Dr. Sara Alavian, recent winner of the CAEP FRCPC Resident Leadership Award.

Find our shownotes with links at:

https://sites.google.com/medportal.ca/macemerg-cpd/podcast

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Welcome to Episode 42 of our MacEmerg podcast.

In this episode:

1) We hear from Dr. Kevin Dong about his reflections about making the hard call when in clinical decision-making;

2) Dr. Ben Forestell & Dr. Devon Stride reflect upon their experiences with Rural EM.

Welcome to Episode 40 of our MacEmerg podcast. Please take a moment to complete our survey, sharing with us your thoughts on our podcast! This will help us continue to make quality content best suited for our listeners!

In this episode we hear from Dr. Clare Wallner about the development of the international award-winning card-based serious game called TriagED (the sister game of the similarly famous GridlockED game). You can find out more about TriagED (including how to buy it!)at: https://www.gridlockedgame.com/triaged-game

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