Gregory Powell, MD, shares the event that inspired him to become an emergency physician.

Emergency Medicine News - The Physician Grind @ EMN with Zahir Basrai, MD

January 2021: A Life-Changing Car Crash

Hannah Janeway, MD, explains how to become an activist and why you have to be willing to risk some of your privilege to create change.

December 2020: Activist Physician, Physician Activist

An emergency physician describes her struggle in figuring out how she can be a code leader while keeping the staff and herself safe.

November 2020: Coding in a COVID-19 World

Hemang Acharya, MD, shares his experience being a protest medic during the recent protests. In this podcast, he discusses tips on how physicians and other health care providers can get started as a protest medic and shares strategies on how to treat protestors who have been tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed.

October 2020: Being a Protest Medic

During his time as an emergency medicine resident in New York City, Andrew Grock, MD, developed a love for the city and built lasting friendships. In this podcast, he shares how difficult it has been to watch the city he loves get hit with COVID-19.

September 2020: Anticipation

Dr. Basrai talks about how COVID-19 seemed so far away at first, and about what it was like to for hospitals to nervously wait for the wave of patients to hit them.

August 2020: Anticipation

Dr. Basrai feels the stress of COVID-19 in the hospital but also at home.

July 2020: A Restless Night

Dr. Anderson shares a story of a patient who presents with the claim of a retained foreign body. Sometimes all it takes a second look in order to find something.

June 2020: A Second Look

Dr. Silk shares a story about airlifting a burn victim from Haiti to Florida.

May 2020: An International Airway

Dr. Seleno remembers a shift that quickly goes from being calm to complete chaos. Her evaluation of a chest pain patient is interrupted when a psychiatric patient starts running around the department, and her attention is only brought back to the patient with chest pain when his wife came out of the room screaming.

April 2020: The Banana Bread Man

Dr. Ekanayake tells the story of how a seemingly benign encounter turned into an unforgettable experience.

In a Bind

Dr. Patel shares what it is like to work in rural emergency medicine, describes the racism he has faced, and discusses how emergency medicine has allowed him to form bridges with the most unlikely of patients.

This is America

Dr. Luu shares a story from a first date that started off great, but then she realized something was wrong with her companion. Listen to what it’s like to date as a physician.

The First Date

Dr. Vega was assigned a patient struggling to prove that his bowels were no longer obstructed. It turns out that a problem with the plumbing is the cause for the impasse.

An Impasse

Dr. Acharya tells the story of an 80-year-old hit by a car who escaped without a scratch. Then he found the man in the ED bathroom engaging in, let’s say, a Schedule 1 activity

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