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.
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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.
Saturday Oct 26, 2019
Stories from Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
Saturday Oct 26, 2019
Saturday Oct 26, 2019
After a bit of a hiatus Antidotes, Stories in Medicine is back featuring Geriatrician & author, Dr. Louise Aronson, MD. Louise shares beautiful stories about aging with Christine from her new book, Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life. The bestselling author- physician discusses how the later part of life can be fullest despite many societal misconceptions and the role of healthcare providers in promoting wellbeing when work may stop, but life certainly continues.
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life by Dr. Louise Aronson, MD is available at your local bookstore & major retailers such as Barnes & Noble and Amazon
Find Louise at https://louisearonson.com/
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Original Music for Antidotes, Stories in Medicine created by Peter Hopkins
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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:
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Original Music for Antidotes, Stories in Medicine created by Peter Hopkins
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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 Jun 05, 2019
The Boston Marathon Bombing: The Doctor
Wednesday Jun 05, 2019
Wednesday Jun 05, 2019
This week we return to the topic of the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing with Emergency Medicine physician, Dr. Bryan Canterbury. Dr. Canterbury was one of many medical professionals, but only a few ER docs, who ran to the finish line on that sunny April day to treat the hundreds of victims injured after 2 bombs exploded during Boston’s hallowed race. With his typical candor & humility, Dr. Canterbury remarks on the differences between working traumas in the street versus the natural habitat of the ER physician, a well stocked & staffed hospital.
Note: I would like to correct the name mentioned in the podcast. The man who held the femoral artery of Jeff Bauman is name Carlos Arredondo, a Costa Rican-American and Gold Star Father. Carlos’ son, Marine LCpl Alexander Arredondo, was KIA in Iraq on 25 August 2004. Since then Carlos has worked as a peace activist as well as an advocate for Veteran mental health. He was at the 2013 Boston Marathon finish line to cheer on runners from National Guard Tough Ruck, one of whom was running for his son. I encourage you to find out more about Carlos Arrendondo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Arredondo
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Original Music for Antidotes, Stories in Medicine created by Peter Hopkins
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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 Apr 29, 2019
Needy Meds
Monday Apr 29, 2019
Monday Apr 29, 2019
Dr. Richard Sagall, founder of the website NeedyMeds.org, joins the show this week to share just some of the incredible services his site offers to help people across the US afford their medication. Dr. Sagall and Christine also discuss skepticism, rising costs in health care, and the ever growing issue of false information in medicine.
Visit www.NeedyMeds.org online or on their app to see even more programs than those discussed in the episode.
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Original Music for Antidotes, Stories in Medicine created by Peter Hopkins
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https://www.petesingsthings.com/
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEniWAPraur5nmlGa2JcVw/videos
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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 25, 2019
The Combat Midwife
Monday Mar 25, 2019
Monday Mar 25, 2019
Affectionately dubbed ‘The Combat Midwife’ by the over 10,000 US Army combat medics she has taught throughout the years, Jess, a Certified Professional Midwife, Paramedic, & EMS educator, joins the podcast this week to share tales of catching babies & teaching US service members the best in pre-hospital casualty care.
Follow Jess on instagram @combatmidwife
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Original Music for Antidotes, Stories in Medicine created by fellow Army Medic Peter Hopkins
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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.
Friday Mar 22, 2019
Firefighter Dan Update
Friday Mar 22, 2019
Friday Mar 22, 2019
Bonus! Firefighter Dan from the episode “Why We Do It” returns to share what it was like finish the stair climb, thank everyone who donated & update us on how EMT school is going!
Listen to the end to find out how you can win a signed copy of Dr. Jonathan Howard’s book, Cognitive Errors & Diagnostic Mistakes.
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Original Music for Antidotes, Stories in Medicine created by Peter Hopkins
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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 18, 2019
Anecdotes on Biases & Quackery
Monday Mar 18, 2019
Monday Mar 18, 2019
Storytelling is a powerful part of human culture as clearly evidenced by the power of podcasts particularly this one, which focuses on medical anecdotes to both entertain & inform. However, the emotional response of anecdotes can be used to spread misinformation & create harm when used to contradict evidence based medicine by anti-vaccine or so called “alternative medicine” advocates.
Lucky for us, Dr. Jonathon Howard, a neurologist & psychiatrist, who has written a book on critical thinking & cognitive biases in medicine joins the podcast this week to explain why are brains like stories & how that can be used against us.
Books Referenced in this episode:
Cognitive Errors & Diagnostic Mistakes: A Case-Based Guide To Critical Thinking in Medicine by Dr. Jonathon Howard, MD
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319932231
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Dr. Oliver Sacks, MD
Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery, Compiled by the Journal of the American Medical Association
https://archive.org/details/nostrumsquackery00amerrich
Dollars for Docs Website
https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/
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Original Music for Antidotes, Stories in Medicine created by Peter Hopkins
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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.
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Original Music for Antidotes, Stories in Medicine created by Peter Hopkins
Check out more of Pete’s music on social media at
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEniWAPraur5nmlGa2JcVw/videos
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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 Feb 25, 2019
Foreign Bodies Are Wild
Monday Feb 25, 2019
Monday Feb 25, 2019
Break time is over & this week features Kim, an Emergency Room travel nurse from the fantastic podcast People Are Wild, to share to some insights into medicine picked up from years of crisscrossing the country by way of trauma bays. Christine & Kim discuss everything from the most absurd footwear in acute care to how even prime time TV can’t get as wild as real ER stories.
Check out People Are Wild on twitter @peoplearewild
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Original Music for Antidotes, Stories in Medicine created by Peter Hopkins
Check out more of Pete’s music on social media at
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www.instagram.com/pete_sings_things/
www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEniWAPraur5nmlGa2JcVw/videos
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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.