When a critical patient lands on your department's doorstep without prior notice, even the most seasoned professionals can find themselves momentarily at a loss — wondering what steps to take first and how to prioritize actions in those crucial initial seconds. What do I do first, what do I do next? What’s REALLY important in the first few seconds? In this episode, emergency intensivist and physician coach Scott Weingart breaks down how to get your mind unstuck and move into action.
Guest Bio: Scott Weingart, MD is a physician coach and emergency department intensivist from New York. He did fellowships in Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and ECMO. He is best known for talking about Resuscitation and Critical Care on the EMCRIT podcast , which has been downloaded > 40 million times.
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85. The Professional's Mindset | Embracing the pact and extreme ownership
84. A Look Inside Ketamine Clinics (and how to start your own)
83. Recalibrating when it all falls apart | In real time strategies to reset during a calamity
82. Letter to My Future Self | Proactively managing self-doubt
81. Medical Ethics in the Heat of the Moment | Withdrawing and withholding care, delaying death, over-treatment, and the daughter from California,
80. The False Assumption of Apologizing for Medical Mistakes
79. The Sleep Expert | Get to sleep and stay asleep
78. I Was Unlucky, But You Frankly Suck | The fundamental attribution error
77. Tiny Habits | Anchors, micro moves, and upward scaling
76. Inner Criticism | How to keep a negative inner voice from taking over
75. Hot Debriefing | Processing events while you're still in the arena
74. Flipping the Narrative on Performance Metrics | Why we're bad at self assessment, crafting meaningful metrics, balancing data
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