How each of us practices medicine is uniquely shaped by our experiences. Christine, a nurse practitioner as well as former EMT & Army medic, speaks with medical professionals from all specializations across the globe about the stories that have influenced how they practice medicine. Paramedics, nurses, doctors, & more recount tales that range from funny to wild to profoundly moving, but no matter the role, culture, or country, all are working to make humanity better any way they can.
Episodes
Friday Jan 24, 2020
Experiences May Vary
Friday Jan 24, 2020
Friday Jan 24, 2020
People who are drawn to healthcare tend to be amazingly compassionate, resilient, and hardworking, but the path each of us takes to our goals can vary just as much as the types of careers that exist in medicine.
Registered Nurse, Robin, candidly shares how her prior jobs as an exotic dancer & stripper taught her valuable skills that translate unbelievably well to MedSurg nursing and the ICU. After all, dealing with drunk men at a strip club is not much different than handling a combative GSW patient and their rowdy family members; only the shoes are a bit more comfortable.
Subscribe, rate, & review Antidotes, Stories in Medicine wherever you listen to podcasts!
Follow us on social media for updates & join our facebook group for exclusive content Facebook
Twitter @antidotespod
Want to share your own story? Send us an email at antidotespodcast@gmail.com
Original Music for Antidotes, Stories in Medicine created by Peter Hopkins
Check out more of Pete’s music on social media at
https://www.petesingsthings.com/
www.instagram.com/pete_sings_things/
www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEniWAPraur5nmlGa2JcVw/videos
www.facebook.com/pete.sings.things/
Disclaimer: This podcast is not meant to provide medical advice. Always consult with your own health care professional. Names, locations, times & any other potentially identifying information about cases discussed have been changed to protect privacy.
Monday Jun 24, 2019
FACT*R
Monday Jun 24, 2019
Monday Jun 24, 2019
We are back to Inova Loudoun to discuss the innovative FACT*R program which brings blood directly to entrapped trauma patients. Dr. John Morgan, Operational Medical Director for Loudoun County Combined Fire & Rescue System and Stephanie Boese, RN, MSN, CCRN, TCRN, Trauma Program Manager for Inova Loudoun Hospital discuss the call that prompted the creation of the Field Available Component Transfusion Response and how the program is changing the way ground EMS agencies respond to the most critical traumas.
FACT*R:
https://wtop.com/virginia/2019/03/new-fire-and-rescue-program-delivers-blood-trapped-crash-victims/
Inova Loudoun: https://www.inova.org/patient-and-visitor-information/facilities/inova-loudoun-hospital/index.jsp
Inova Donor Services:
Subscribe, rate, & review Antidotes, Stories in Medicine wherever you listen to podcasts!
Follow us on social media for updates & join our facebook group for exclusive content Facebook www.facebook.com/antidotespodcast/
Instagram www.instagram.com/antidotespodcast/
Twitter @antidotespod
Follow Christine on Twitter @christinethenp
Have a story of your own you would like read on the podcast or want to be interviewed by Christine?
Send us an email at antidotespodcast@gmail.com
Original Music for Antidotes, Stories in Medicine created by Peter Hopkins
Check out more of Pete’s music on social media at
https://www.petesingsthings.com/
www.instagram.com/pete_sings_things/
www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEniWAPraur5nmlGa2JcVw/videos
www.facebook.com/pete.sings.things/
Disclaimer: This podcast is not meant to provide medical advice. Always consult with your own health care professional. Names, locations, times & any other potentially identifying information about cases discussed have been changed to protect privacy.
Monday Mar 11, 2019
The School Nurse
Monday Mar 11, 2019
Monday Mar 11, 2019
While kids are at school their health & wellbeing is watched over by a handful of diligent nurses who juggle a multitude of roles to fulfill the needs of public health, mental health, addiction counseling, emergency medicine, career counseling, & preventive medicine. Tessa, one of three school nurses for a district of 3,500 student ages 5- 21, shares what just a tiny part of what her job is like to helps kids stay healthy as they grow up in American public schools.
Subscribe, rate, & review Antidotes, Stories in Medicine wherever you listen to podcasts!
Follow us on social media for updates & join our facebook group for exclusive content Facebook www.facebook.com/antidotespodcast/
Instagram www.instagram.com/antidotespodcast/
Twitter @antidotespod
Follow Christine on Twitter @christinethenp
Have a story of your own you would like read on the podcast or want to be interviewed by Christine?
Send us an email at antidotespodcast@gmail.com
Original Music for Antidotes, Stories in Medicine created by Peter Hopkins
Check out more of Pete’s music on social media at
https://www.petesingsthings.com/
www.instagram.com/pete_sings_things/
www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEniWAPraur5nmlGa2JcVw/videos
www.facebook.com/pete.sings.things/
Disclaimer: This podcast is not meant to provide medical advice. Always consult with your own health care professional. Names, locations, times & any other potentially identifying information about cases discussed have been changed to protect privacy.
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
A Brief Dip Into Death
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Wednesday Mar 06, 2019
Who has checked the organ donor box on their driver’s license form? Is there a little heart nestled somewhere among the essential stats that make up your identity? If so, have you ever considered what it would be like to donate your organs or what about need an organ?
When Elissa found herself suddenly herself needing a heart after a viral infection in her early 20s, someone who had checked that box allowed her to be able to share the incredible story with us today.
Check out Elissa’s Yoga instagram @eoyoga
Subscribe, rate, & review Antidotes, Stories in Medicine wherever you listen to podcasts!
Follow us on social media for updates & join our facebook group for exclusive content Facebook www.facebook.com/antidotespodcast/
Instagram www.instagram.com/antidotespodcast/
Twitter @antidotespod
Follow Christine on Twitter @christinethenp
Have a story of your own you would like read on the podcast or want to be interviewed by Christine?
Send us an email at antidotespodcast@gmail.com
Original Music for Antidotes, Stories in Medicine created by Peter Hopkins
Check out more of Pete’s music on social media at
https://www.petesingsthings.com/
www.instagram.com/pete_sings_things/
www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEniWAPraur5nmlGa2JcVw/videos
www.facebook.com/pete.sings.things/
Disclaimer: This podcast is not meant to provide medical advice. Always consult with your own health care professional. Names, locations, times & any other potentially identifying information about cases discussed have been changed to protect privacy.
Wednesday Jan 16, 2019
The Donuts are in the Fridge, Love
Wednesday Jan 16, 2019
Wednesday Jan 16, 2019
Episode 19 is packed with more stories from EMS this week. A married Firefighter/ paramedic couple share what it’s like working together as partners in an urban 911 system, moving to a rural department, parenting a Type 1 diabetic & working in a profession that they describe as a kaleidoscope of human joy and trauma.
Subscribe, rate, & review Antidotes, Stories in Medicine wherever you listen to podcasts!
Follow us on social media for updates & join our facebook group for exclusive content Facebook www.facebook.com/antidotespodcast/
Instagram www.instagram.com/antidotespodcast/
Twitter @antidotespod
Follow Christine on Twitter @christinethenp
Have a story of your own you would like read on the podcast or want to be interviewed by Christine?
Send us an email at antidotespodcast@gmail.com
Original Music for Antidotes, Stories in Medicine created by Peter Hopkins
Check out more of Pete’s music on social media at
https://www.petesingsthings.com/
www.instagram.com/pete_sings_things/
www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEniWAPraur5nmlGa2JcVw/videos
www.facebook.com/pete.sings.things/
Disclaimer: This podcast is not meant to provide medical advice. Always consult with your own health care professional. Names, locations, times & any other potentially identifying information about cases discussed have been changed to protect privacy.
Sunday Dec 02, 2018
Dying Right
Sunday Dec 02, 2018
Sunday Dec 02, 2018
This week Christine is joined by Anna, a hospice nurse practitioner who explains the role of hospice in end of life care and what made her choose this rewarding specialty after years of critical care medicine as nurse in a busy urban Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Christine shares her own personal story of a family member receiving hospice care after a diagnosis of cancer.
For more information on end of life and advanced care planning, see Five Wishes at https://fivewishes.org/
Subscribe, rate, & review Antidotes, Stories in Medicine wherever you listen to podcasts!
Antidotes, Stories in Medicine continues to support a donation drive for prior guest Dan who is participating in the LLS Firefighter Stair Climb at the Columbia Center in March 2019. For more information see our facebook page.
Link to Dan’s LLS Firefighter Stairclimb Support Page
Follow us on social media for updates & join our facebook group for exclusive content Facebook www.facebook.com/antidotespodcast/
Instagram www.instagram.com/antidotespodcast/
Twitter @antidotespod
Follow Christine on Twitter @christinethenp
Have a story of your own you would like read on the podcast or want to be interviewed by Christine?
Send us an email at antidotespodcast@gmail.com
Original Music for Antidotes, Stories in Medicine created by Peter Hopkins
Check out more of Pete’s music on social media at
https://www.petesingsthings.com/
www.instagram.com/pete_sings_things/
www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEniWAPraur5nmlGa2JcVw/videos
www.facebook.com/pete.sings.things/
Disclaimer: This podcast is not meant to provide medical advice. Always consult with your own health care professional. Names, locations, times & any other potentially identifying information about cases discussed have been changed to protect privacy.
Sunday Nov 11, 2018
The Strangeness of Death
Sunday Nov 11, 2018
Sunday Nov 11, 2018
Death is an inevitable part of medicine and few come face to face with it as often or as closely as emergency medicine providers. Christine is joined by Emergency Room nurse, Beth, as they discuss the unique, & sometimes oddly normal ways in which people have passed away. Nurses, paramedics, EMTs, and doctors strive to make death as dignified as possible, but peculiar situations seem to be the way of life.
Subscribe, rate, & review!
Follow us on social media for updates & join our facebook group for exclusive content Facebook www.facebook.com/antidotespodcast/
Instagram www.instagram.com/antidotespodcast/
Twitter @antidotespod
Follow Christine on Twitter @christinethenp
Have a story of your own you would like read on the podcast or want to be interviewed by Christine?
Send us an email at antidotespodcast@gmail.com
Original Music by Peter Hopkins
Check out more of Pete’s music on social media at
https://www.petesingsthings.com/
www.instagram.com/pete_sings_things/
www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEniWAPraur5nmlGa2JcVw/videos
www.facebook.com/pete.sings.things/
Disclaimer: This podcast is not meant to provide medical advice. Always consult with your own health care professional. Names, locations, times & any other potentially identifying information about cases discussed have been changed to protect privacy.
Sunday Nov 04, 2018
Mistakes Will Be Made
Sunday Nov 04, 2018
Sunday Nov 04, 2018
Christine is joined by Australian ICU nurse Alison as they talk about the healthcare in Australia, their worst days in medicine, & the amazing advancements in infectious disease treatments over the last 30 years.
Subscribe, rate, & review!
Follow us on social media for updates & join our facebook group for exclusive content Facebook www.facebook.com/antidotespodcast/
Instagram www.instagram.com/antidotespodcast/
Twitter @antidotespod
Follow Christine on Twitter @christinethenp
Have a story of your own you would like read on the podcast or want to be interviewed by Christine?
Send us an email at antidotespodcast@gmail.com
Original Music by Peter Hopkins
Check out more of Pete’s music on social media at:
https://www.petesingsthings.com/
www.instagram.com/pete_sings_things/
www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEniWAPraur5nmlGa2JcVw/videos
www.facebook.com/pete.sings.things/
Disclaimer: This podcast is not meant to provide medical advice. Always consult with your own health care professional. Names, locations, times & any other potentially identifying information about cases discussed have been changed to protect privacy.
Thursday Oct 18, 2018
Men Are Coming!
Thursday Oct 18, 2018
Thursday Oct 18, 2018
Bonus Episode! Haley from the episode “Nurse Jane” is back with a few more stories about medicine across the world. She shares the experience of working an out of hospital cardiac arrest while working as a teacher in Saudi Arabia on a student at an all women’s campus. Cardiac arrests outside the emergency department are much more chaotic, but even more so when you don’t have the proper equipment, the doctor doesn’t know CPR, and “Men are coming!”
Even when nothing goes right, a nurse will do their best for the patient.
Subscribe, rate, & review!
Follow us on social media for updates & join our facebook group for exclusive content Facebook www.facebook.com/antidotespodcast/
Instagram www.instagram.com/antidotespodcast/
Twitter @antidotespod
Follow Christine on Twitter @christinethenp
Have a story of your own you would like read on the podcast or want to be interviewed by Christine?
Send us an email at antidotespodcast@gmail.com
Disclaimer: This podcast is not meant to provide medical advice. Always consult with your own health care professional. Names, locations, times & any other potentially identifying information about cases discussed have been changed to protect privacy.