Dirty White Coat

Travel Pause

Mel Herbert for FoolyBoo Inc

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Mel will be on a trip to Kenya doing some teaching. Show will reboot in mid March. Lts of great interviews coming up!

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Speaker 1

Hey , people of a coat that is filthy . I have to announce that I'm going away for a couple of weeks to Kenya and I'm going to put the show on a little bit of a pause . We've got some really great interviews coming up Some of the people from the Pit which , if you're not watching , you should be . It's a great show . Lots of stuff to tell you about that on my return . We've also got some other AI experts that are coming in and we've got some new AI models coming . It's kind of crazy . So we're going to hit pause for a couple of weeks .

Speaker 1

While I'm away , I don't think I'll get a chance to post things . We are fortunate enough to get to go to Kenya every year for the last I don't know how many years , helping train the trainers in emergency medicine . Emergency medicine is an emerging specialty across the world , across Africa in particular , and in Kenya . So we get to go with a group of people Britt Guest and her fellow and a couple of residents and go and do some training in a number of the different hospitals throughout Nairobi and in Eldoret , in some of the private hospitals and some of the public hospitals . It's really an amazing time .

Speaker 1

Kenyans are wonderful people . It is a beautiful country and we always come back inspired by just how many people there just want to give great care , amazing care , to their people and we get to help be part of it . It's interesting because I started emergency medicine in australia in the early 1990s and we were about 10 or 20 years behind the us in terms of emergency medicine training and I got to see how this emerging specialty was developing . There were very few board certified emergency physicians in australia at the time , and to see how it's changed over time and to see the challenges then are the same challenges that are happening in Kenya now . So it's extraordinary to , at this end of the career , to see it starting again in another country and just so fortunate to be able to go over there and lend a hand . Well , at least we hope we're lending a hand .

Speaker 1

So pause for a couple of weeks and then we'll get back at it , unless something magic occurs and maybe I could do sort of some travel logish , like what's happening with medicine in kenya while I'm away . But I do have my portable satellite dish . Maybe that can happen . It'll just depending on the timing . So thanks for listening to the show . It's been really , really well received . We've got lots and lots of listeners and lots of feedback , so thank you for that . This has been a fun little side project of mine and when I get back I got some other big announcements to make about what's happening in all the worlds of the coat that is dirty , so talk to you soon . Be safe , herbert out Bye .