Dirty White Coat
Mel Herbert, MD, and the creators of EM:RAP, UCMAX, CorePendium, and the collaborators on "The Pitt" and many of the most influential medical education series present a new free podcast: “Dirty White Coat.” Join us twice a month as we dive into all things medicine—from AI to venture capital, long COVID to ketamine, RFK Jr. to Ozempic, and so much more. Created by doctors for clinicians of all levels and anyone interested in medicine, this show delivers expert insights, engaging discussions, and the humor we all desperately need more of!
Dirty White Coat
Travel Pause
Mel will be on a trip to Kenya doing some teaching. Show will reboot in mid March. Lts of great interviews coming up!
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.
