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
August Updates and Book Suggestion!
Mel give some updates and his book selection for this summer!
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
hey, people of the coat. That is quite filthy. Couple of updates here again. I have to apologize about getting new interviews up. Quite busy with a couple of things. One is invictus, which is our oral and written board review series, which we are working really hard to get up as soon as we can. Invictusreviews if you want to go see our landing page and check out the offering, there's a big brand new oral board review style OSCE for graduates of emergency medicine residencies. So you have to sit your written boards.
Speaker 1:And that's our Invictus board review series which is coming soon, which is going to be different from anybody else's in many ways. It's going to be bigger, more thorough, it's going to have podcasts, it's going to have live events, it's going to be ongoing, it's going to be updated continuously. There'll be Q banks and written summaries. We've even done a deal with Roche to get those really excellent exams, sort of specific questions as well. So lots going on there. And then the OSCE oral board review thing is going to be very different and it's freaking people out and we should have those videos and cases up very soon. And also I've got a shout out to our video production team that has produced the best trauma education series ever. So we've got trauma primary survey, secondary survey, peds version of this should be up soon and we also have that radiology series.
Speaker 1:We're continuing to do a series of these, what we call fundamental series, but shot in a very different way Shot in front of mannequins or on actual people. And we've got one we're shooting right now for ultrasound. We're going to go through the gamut of all of the things that are required to make you an excellent physician, and not just in slide deck and speaker form. But here's how you examine a knee. Here's how you examine a neck. Here's how you do a primary, secondary survey. Here's how you do an ultrasound of the heart. Here's how you do an ultrasound of the heart. Here's how you do an ultrasound of the spine. That kind of content we are doubling down on and you're going to see so much more of over the next year and into the future. So super exciting.
Speaker 1:But if you're hoping for more podcasts and I've let you down because it's the summer and you've got time on your hands, lucky you. But I suggest very much that you get this book. The audio book is fantastic. It is Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green and it is narrated by John Green. It is just so good. It is the history of tuberculosis.
Speaker 1:I didn't really understand just the impact of this disease over the years through history, how it has actually changed history. It's just really a remarkable book. You know, when I grew up in Australia, when I trained in Australia, there was almost no tuberculosis. There was some tuberculosis in immigrant populations, but really it was just a disease that we never saw. One time during my internship our very smart professor of medicine made the diagnosis and it took weeks for it to be confirmed. But everybody was, omg, how did you make this diagnosis? And he actually had trained in Iraq as well as in Australia and for him this was like, yeah, I see this, you know, I know this stuff.
Speaker 1:When I came to the US working in an inner city hospital, I saw tuberculosis all the time, like every shift. Just such a prevalent disease here and a prevalent disease, unfortunately, amongst the residents. Like many of the residents, I think over 50% of the residents would convert to TB positive during residency. There was just so much there. So this is an incredibly good read or a listen. So again, everything is Tuberculosis by John Green.
Speaker 1:That is my suggestion for you. Pit updates can't give anything away, but things are going really well. The writing's going really well, the actors are doing a great job and I think you're really going to really like season two. One of the key things that I learned from Scott Gemmel, who is the showrunner, the originator of this incredible show, is that you don't try and blow up a second season because you're afraid the first season was so good, because what happens then is that you quickly will be jumping the shark. You'll be doing crazy things. So you just want to tell great stories really well, and don't try and blow up the Empire State Building too many times. You know what I mean. This week is wedding week. Yes, my son is getting married. It's so exciting. But hopefully in the next few weeks I've got a number of interviews that are planned and we'll get them out to you. So until then, I guess it's Herbert out. Talk to you soon. Turn.
