• #67 - Burnout avoidance, decision fatigue, driving lights and sirens, Where is God in emergency medicine?

  • Sep 15 2024
  • Length: 26 mins
  • Podcast

#67 - Burnout avoidance, decision fatigue, driving lights and sirens, Where is God in emergency medicine?

  • Summary

  • Imminent baby delivery stories

    Burnout tips: avoid the overtime. Sometimes the extra money is not worth the additional life stress.

    Make sure you get off on time and make that transition to home life.

    Andrew uses audio books so he has something to look forward to while driving to and from shift.

    Patients are often not even the source of our stress, it’s operational difficulties, interpersonal difficulties and decision fatigue.

    Decision fatigue is a big issue we face in our home lives after a significant portion of our day being in fight and flight mode

    We talk about driving lights and sirens to every call and the dangers associated with this to the crew and public

    This likely doesn’t save lives in any meaningful way that justifies the danger

    There is a big push to decrease the emergent responses

    We talk about the hazards with emergent returns, the confusion other drivers may have, the danger for the patient and crews.

    Road rage isn’t worth engaging in, remember that the bar to obtain a drivers license is very low and many of the meth-using patients we take care of will drive as well. You never know what kind of person is in that other car.

    I bring back up the discussion of “Where is God is emergency medicine?”

    We see the whole spectrum of life and death. We see people come back from the brink of death that logically shouldn’t and those that succumb that logically shouldn’t.

    We talk about strategies to compartmentalize and move on to the next patient

    Schasny talks about the traumatic life and medical experiences she has come through and how they have changed her view on religion

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