Healthcare Musings
By Hesham A. Hassaballa, MD, FCCP
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This is the official podcast of Hesham A. Hassaballa, MD, a NY Times-featured Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician, Author, and Healthcare Executive. Healthcare Musings discusses healthcare delivery and healthcare policy, including the effects of artificial intelligence on the medical field.
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One Team, One Fight
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Oct 06, 2026 |
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They Don't Make Residents Like They Used To - Fair Enough
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Sep 29, 2026 |
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ER-ICU Wars: My Conversation With A Doctor Who Works In Both
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Sep 22, 2026 |
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World Sepsis Day 2026: Beware The Great Impostor
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Sep 15, 2026 |
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They Don't Make Residents Like They Used To: An Honest Conversation With The Next Generation
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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Dr. H's Verbal Hassaboluses: Another Reason I Don't Like The System-Based Note
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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AI in Revenue Cycle: Why Terry Cameron is Optimistic
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Aug 25, 2026 |
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Many Times, Morbidity Can Be Worse Than Mortality
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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Is Health Insurance Actually Insurance?: My Conversation with Dr. Reinier Schuur
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Aug 11, 2026 |
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Voltaire In The ICU - La Deuxième Partie
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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Voltaire in the ICU
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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Yes, This Sleep Doctor Wants Permanent Daylight Savings Time
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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Gratitude: The Physician Leader’s Superpower
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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The Vindication of Dr. Hassabolus III
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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The Words We Use Actually Do Matter
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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The True Meaning of The Word “Respect”
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Taking Gratitude From Habit to Ritual: My Conversation With Marion Spears Karr
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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Weighed Down By Grief Over She Who Is “Weightless”
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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AI, The Compass, The Hype, and The Parking Brake: My Conversation with Dr. Bobby Dubois
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Dr. H's Verbal Hassaboluses: We've Come Full Circle on Notes That Say Nothing
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May 26, 2026 |
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Dr. H’s Verbal Hassaboluses: Residents and Fellows: PLEASE Stop Writing System-Based Notes Right Now
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May 19, 2026 |
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The Tension Between The Academy and The Community: My Conversation With Dr. Scott Matson
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May 12, 2026 |
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My Covid Reflection: Six Years Ago Today
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May 07, 2026 |
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Healing The Sick Care System: My Conversation With Gil Bashe
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Is Sepsis Even A Disease?: My Conversation With "The Thoughtful Intensivist"
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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"We The Patients" Are Really Pissed Off: My Conversation with Matthew Zachary
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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2026 Sepsis Guidelines: The 17 Strong Recommendations Everyone Needs to Know
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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2026 Sepsis Guidelines: What Changed & What Has Not — Dr. Hassabolus Vindicated Again
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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The Why of CDI: Why Doctors Need to Care
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Obesity or Malnutrition: Document It Every Time It’s There
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Fear and the COVID Response: A Conversation with Dr. Joseph Marine
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Returning Goals of Care Conversations to Where They Belong
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Do We Need A PCP For Everything?: My Conversation with Dr. Bobby Scott
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Saving Primary Care: Dr. Colleen Smith’s Novel Idea
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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What’s It Really Like To Run A Hospital?: My Conversation with Ken Kaufman
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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What's the Deal With the New Dietary Guidelines? I Asked America's Cardiologist.
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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A Day in the Life of a TeleIntensivist Leader: Dr. Mirko Villanueva
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Acute Hypoxic Respiratory Failure: Decoding What It Is (and Isn’t) in the Face of Denials.
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Get Off The SOFA: Winning the Fight Against Sepsis Denials
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Leadership, Compassion, and the Future of AI in Critical Care: My Appearance on the Becker's Healthcare Podcast
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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The Soundtrack of My Grief: "You Are The Piece of Me I Wish I Didn't Need"
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Can AI Chatbots Make End-of-Life Decisions?
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Metabolic Encephalopathy: Essential Guide to Accurate Documentation
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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The Sepsis Confusion: SIRS, SOFA, and CDI…Oh My!!!
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Seeing Healthcare From 30,000 Feet: My Conversation with Scott Becker
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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More People Are Turning To AI Chatbots: How Doctors Can Properly Deal With This
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Is American Healthcare Doomed To Be A Zero Sum Game?: My Conversation With Jeff Alter
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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“Poof, It’s Sepsis”: Are Doctors Using AI To Inappropriately Bill Patients?
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Revolutionizing The Care Economy: My Conversation With Neal Shah of CareYaya
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Using AI To Become a "10x Doctor": My Conversation with Eiman Abdelmoneim
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Women in Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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“Surgical Consultation Recommended”
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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What’s The Deal With Potassium In The ICU
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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“They Don’t Make Them Like They Used To”: My Conversation With Dr. Richard Abrams
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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The Travesty of “Verbal Denials”
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Honoring Our EVS Colleagues
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Your First Impression Is Your Only Impression
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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“A Day In The Life”: Telecritical Care With Dr. Eugene Yeh
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Mixed Feelings On Prior Authorization in Traditional Medicare
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Americans Are Drinking Less: That’s Amazing News!
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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What Doctors Can Do That AI Cannot
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Limiting Student Loans: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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AI Has Eliminated Your Job As A Radiologist, Right?: My Conversation With Dr. Safwan Halabi
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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The Freedom Fighters of Medicine
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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Is a Mean Arterial Pressure of 65 Harmful in Septic Shock?
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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The Vindication Of Dr. Hassabolus
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Do Doctors Gaslight Their Patients?: My Conversation with Dr. Chailee Moss
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Are All Plaintiff Attorneys Bad People?: My Conversation With Dr. Jeff Willis
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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How To Do The SEP-1 Bundle Right
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May 27, 2025 |
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The Man Behind PulmCCM: Great Minds in Medicine
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May 19, 2025 |
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Tips For A Good Night’s Sleep
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May 12, 2025 |
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I Was A Nurse For A Day: It Wasn’t Pretty
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May 05, 2025 |
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Sleep In The ICU: The Guidelines and What We Should Do
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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"They Don't Make Them Like They Used To": My Conversation with Dr. Adam Cifu
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Sleep in the ICU: The Classic Experiments
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Every Measles Death Is Too Many
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Faith in the ICU: Stories of Wonder
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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ICU Lecture Series: The ICU Liberation Bundle
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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What Is A Blood Transfusion, Truly?
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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ICU Lecture Series: Metabolic Acidosis
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Great Minds in Medicine: Dr. Elaine Chen
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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From the Appeals Desk: Coding Clinics and Sepsis
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Great Minds in Medicine: Dr. Sergio Zanotti
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Faith in the ICU: Does Being a Physician Weaken My Faith?
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Most Oncologists Do Not Refer to Palliative Care. What?
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Great Minds in Medicine: Dr. Mohammad Alo
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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What If An Unresponsive Patient Is Actually "In There"?
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Journal Club: Is Rapid Correction of Hyponatremia Dangerous?
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Journal Club: Small-bore vs Large-bore Chest Tube for Hemothorax
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Happy Birthday, Booboo.
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Faith in the ICU: Doctors Should Not Shy Away
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Journal Club: Long Term Oxygen Therapy
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Social Media For Doctors: A Conversation with Austan Lundeen
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Why We Vaccinate Against Measles
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Journal Club: IV vs. IO in Cardiac Arrest
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Great Minds in Medicine: Dr. Vivek Tirmal
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Beware the Potential Dangers of Cannabis
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Go Out And Vote
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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“Reducing Waste” in Healthcare
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Great Minds in Medicine: Dr. Greg Johnson
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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How Patients and Their Families Can Prevent Clinician Burnout
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Journal Club: Replacing Serum Potassium
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Know Your Sepsis
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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PLEASE Don’t Do THIS To Prevent Food Poisoning!
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Raising Awareness of Physician Suicide
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Great Minds in Medicine: Dr. Rob Bessler
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Sepsis Beware
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Get Your Living Will Done Today
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Great Minds in Medicine: Dr. Rob Zipper
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Journal Club: Preoxygenation Prior To Intubation
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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My Advice For Those Starting Medical School
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Reflections on the Olympic Games
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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The Battle Against An Ignoble Death
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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The Battles I Wage In The ICU
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis - What’s the Evidence?
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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WTF, CMS?
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Nursing Chalk Talk
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Documentation and Litigation
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Nights in the ICU - Part 4
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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An ICU Doctor Reflects On Father’s Day
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Cicadapocolypse 2024 and Human Disgust
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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A Tribute to Bayan
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Journal Club: Adverse Events From The Covid Vaccine
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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”The Job Picks the Person”
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May 28, 2024 |
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Critical Care Awareness and Recognition Month: A Conversation I Had With Credentialing Specialists
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May 20, 2024 |
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Towards Patient and Family Centered Care
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May 13, 2024 |
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There is No ”Care” in Healthcare Without Nurses
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May 07, 2024 |
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ICU Nights - Part 3
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May 06, 2024 |
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Never Take People’s Trust For Granted
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May 01, 2024 |
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In Defense of the Noncompete Clause
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Don’t Skimp on Your Sleep
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Journal Club: Physician Empathy and Chronic Low Back Pain
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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From the Appeals Desk: Acute Respiratory Failure
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Getting a Job Part 4 - The Employment Agreement
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Getting a Job Part 3: The Employed Model with Productivity Incentives
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Cybersecurity in Healthcare: A Conversation with Matt Knox
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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It’s About Time: CDC Changes COVID Isolation Guidance
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Getting a Job: What Every Resident and Fellow Needs to Know - Part 2
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Getting a Job: What Every Resident and Fellow Needs to Know - Part 1
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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ICU Lecture Series: Nights in the ICU Part 2
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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ICU Lecture Series: Common Problems at Night in the ICU
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Advice for the Match Part 2
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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My Advice For Students Entering the Match
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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ICU Lecture Series: ”SIMV Only Belongs in Coffee”
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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The ”30 Day Readmission” Denial
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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What is the Two-Midnight Rule?
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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We Get Shafted Here With Our Food
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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If I Ever ”Found God on the Corner of First and Amistad”
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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When My Daughter Became ”Weightless,” I Became the ”Owner of a Broken Heart”
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Why December is Such a Tough Month
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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“Ladies and Gentlemen, Is There a Doctor on the Plane?” - Lessons Learned
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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“Ladies and Gentlemen, Is There a Doctor on the Plane?”
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Dr. Hassaballa is a Guest on ”Crossing the Chasm” Podcast
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Get the F@&^ Out - Part 2
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Take the Time to Document Well
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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ICU Lecture Series: Acid Base Disorders
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Celebrating Respiratory Therapists
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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We Should Abandon the Term ”DNR”
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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From the Appeals Desk: Medical Necessity Denials
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Shock and Hemodynamics
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Get the F*^& Out…
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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The Ruthless Monster That is Sepsis
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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To Jab or Not to Jab?
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Why I Stopped Drinking Diet Coke
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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From the Appeals Desk: Prior Authorization Denials
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Extubation With T-Piece: When and Why
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Just like the Airline Industry, Safety Has to be Nonnegotiable in Healthcare
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Lectures from the ICU: Hypoxic Respiratory Failure
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Lecture from the ICU: Sepsis
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Lecture Series: Mechanical Ventilation
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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The Unsustainable Math of Medicare Physician Payment Cuts
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Jul 31, 2023 |