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Healthcare Musings — 157 episodes
The Words We Use Actually Do Matter
The True Meaning of The Word “Respect”
Taking Gratitude From Habit to Ritual: My Conversation With Marion Spears Karr
Weighed Down By Grief Over She Who Is “Weightless”
AI, The Compass, The Hype, and The Parking Brake: My Conversation with Dr. Bobby Dubois
Dr. H's Verbal Hassaboluses: We've Come Full Circle on Notes That Say Nothing
Dr. H’s Verbal Hassaboluses: Residents and Fellows: PLEASE Stop Writing System-Based Notes Right Now
The Tension Between The Academy and The Community: My Conversation With Dr. Scott Matson
My Covid Reflection: Six Years Ago Today
Healing The Sick Care System: My Conversation With Gil Bashe
Is Sepsis Even A Disease?: My Conversation With "The Thoughtful Intensivist"
"We The Patients" Are Really Pissed Off: My Conversation with Matthew Zachary
2026 Sepsis Guidelines: The 17 Strong Recommendations Everyone Needs to Know
2026 Sepsis Guidelines: What Changed & What Has Not — Dr. Hassabolus Vindicated Again
The Why of CDI: Why Doctors Need to Care
Obesity or Malnutrition: Document It Every Time It’s There
Fear and the COVID Response: A Conversation with Dr. Joseph Marine
Returning Goals of Care Conversations to Where They Belong
Do We Need A PCP For Everything?: My Conversation with Dr. Bobby Scott
Saving Primary Care: Dr. Colleen Smith’s Novel Idea
What’s It Really Like To Run A Hospital?: My Conversation with Ken Kaufman
What's the Deal With the New Dietary Guidelines? I Asked America's Cardiologist.
A Day in the Life of a TeleIntensivist Leader: Dr. Mirko Villanueva
Acute Hypoxic Respiratory Failure: Decoding What It Is (and Isn’t) in the Face of Denials.
Get Off The SOFA: Winning the Fight Against Sepsis Denials
Leadership, Compassion, and the Future of AI in Critical Care: My Appearance on the Becker's Healthcare Podcast
The Soundtrack of My Grief: "You Are The Piece of Me I Wish I Didn't Need"
Can AI Chatbots Make End-of-Life Decisions?
Metabolic Encephalopathy: Essential Guide to Accurate Documentation
The Sepsis Confusion: SIRS, SOFA, and CDI…Oh My!!!
Seeing Healthcare From 30,000 Feet: My Conversation with Scott Becker
More People Are Turning To AI Chatbots: How Doctors Can Properly Deal With This
Is American Healthcare Doomed To Be A Zero Sum Game?: My Conversation With Jeff Alter
“Poof, It’s Sepsis”: Are Doctors Using AI To Inappropriately Bill Patients?
Revolutionizing The Care Economy: My Conversation With Neal Shah of CareYaya
Using AI To Become a "10x Doctor": My Conversation with Eiman Abdelmoneim
Women in Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities
“Surgical Consultation Recommended”
What’s The Deal With Potassium In The ICU
“They Don’t Make Them Like They Used To”: My Conversation With Dr. Richard Abrams
The Travesty of “Verbal Denials”
Honoring Our EVS Colleagues
Your First Impression Is Your Only Impression
“A Day In The Life”: Telecritical Care With Dr. Eugene Yeh
Mixed Feelings On Prior Authorization in Traditional Medicare
Americans Are Drinking Less: That’s Amazing News!
What Doctors Can Do That AI Cannot
Limiting Student Loans: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
AI Has Eliminated Your Job As A Radiologist, Right?: My Conversation With Dr. Safwan Halabi
The Freedom Fighters of Medicine
Is a Mean Arterial Pressure of 65 Harmful in Septic Shock?
The Vindication Of Dr. Hassabolus
Do Doctors Gaslight Their Patients?: My Conversation with Dr. Chailee Moss
Are All Plaintiff Attorneys Bad People?: My Conversation With Dr. Jeff Willis
How To Do The SEP-1 Bundle Right
The Man Behind PulmCCM: Great Minds in Medicine
Tips For A Good Night’s Sleep
I Was A Nurse For A Day: It Wasn’t Pretty
Sleep In The ICU: The Guidelines and What We Should Do
"They Don't Make Them Like They Used To": My Conversation with Dr. Adam Cifu
Sleep in the ICU: The Classic Experiments
Every Measles Death Is Too Many
Faith in the ICU: Stories of Wonder
ICU Lecture Series: The ICU Liberation Bundle
What Is A Blood Transfusion, Truly?
ICU Lecture Series: Metabolic Acidosis
Great Minds in Medicine: Dr. Elaine Chen
From the Appeals Desk: Coding Clinics and Sepsis
Great Minds in Medicine: Dr. Sergio Zanotti
Faith in the ICU: Does Being a Physician Weaken My Faith?
Most Oncologists Do Not Refer to Palliative Care. What?
Great Minds in Medicine: Dr. Mohammad Alo
What If An Unresponsive Patient Is Actually "In There"?
Journal Club: Is Rapid Correction of Hyponatremia Dangerous?
Journal Club: Small-bore vs Large-bore Chest Tube for Hemothorax
Happy Birthday, Booboo.
Faith in the ICU: Doctors Should Not Shy Away
Journal Club: Long Term Oxygen Therapy
Social Media For Doctors: A Conversation with Austan Lundeen
Why We Vaccinate Against Measles
Journal Club: IV vs. IO in Cardiac Arrest
Great Minds in Medicine: Dr. Vivek Tirmal
Beware the Potential Dangers of Cannabis
Go Out And Vote
“Reducing Waste” in Healthcare
Great Minds in Medicine: Dr. Greg Johnson
How Patients and Their Families Can Prevent Clinician Burnout
Journal Club: Replacing Serum Potassium
Know Your Sepsis
PLEASE Don’t Do THIS To Prevent Food Poisoning!
Raising Awareness of Physician Suicide
Great Minds in Medicine: Dr. Rob Bessler
Sepsis Beware
Get Your Living Will Done Today
Great Minds in Medicine: Dr. Rob Zipper
Journal Club: Preoxygenation Prior To Intubation
My Advice For Those Starting Medical School
Reflections on the Olympic Games
The Battle Against An Ignoble Death
The Battles I Wage In The ICU
Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis - What’s the Evidence?
WTF, CMS?
Nursing Chalk Talk
Documentation and Litigation
Nights in the ICU - Part 4
An ICU Doctor Reflects On Father’s Day
Cicadapocolypse 2024 and Human Disgust
A Tribute to Bayan
Journal Club: Adverse Events From The Covid Vaccine
”The Job Picks the Person”
Critical Care Awareness and Recognition Month: A Conversation I Had With Credentialing Specialists
Towards Patient and Family Centered Care
There is No ”Care” in Healthcare Without Nurses
ICU Nights - Part 3
Never Take People’s Trust For Granted
In Defense of the Noncompete Clause
Don’t Skimp on Your Sleep
Journal Club: Physician Empathy and Chronic Low Back Pain
From the Appeals Desk: Acute Respiratory Failure
Getting a Job Part 4 - The Employment Agreement
Getting a Job Part 3: The Employed Model with Productivity Incentives
Cybersecurity in Healthcare: A Conversation with Matt Knox
It’s About Time: CDC Changes COVID Isolation Guidance
Getting a Job: What Every Resident and Fellow Needs to Know - Part 2
Getting a Job: What Every Resident and Fellow Needs to Know - Part 1
ICU Lecture Series: Nights in the ICU Part 2
ICU Lecture Series: Common Problems at Night in the ICU
Advice for the Match Part 2
My Advice For Students Entering the Match
ICU Lecture Series: ”SIMV Only Belongs in Coffee”
The ”30 Day Readmission” Denial
What is the Two-Midnight Rule?
We Get Shafted Here With Our Food
If I Ever ”Found God on the Corner of First and Amistad”
When My Daughter Became ”Weightless,” I Became the ”Owner of a Broken Heart”
Why December is Such a Tough Month
“Ladies and Gentlemen, Is There a Doctor on the Plane?” - Lessons Learned
“Ladies and Gentlemen, Is There a Doctor on the Plane?”
Dr. Hassaballa is a Guest on ”Crossing the Chasm” Podcast
Get the F@&^ Out - Part 2
Take the Time to Document Well
ICU Lecture Series: Acid Base Disorders
Celebrating Respiratory Therapists
We Should Abandon the Term ”DNR”
From the Appeals Desk: Medical Necessity Denials
Shock and Hemodynamics
Get the F*^& Out…
The Ruthless Monster That is Sepsis
To Jab or Not to Jab?
Why I Stopped Drinking Diet Coke
From the Appeals Desk: Prior Authorization Denials
Extubation With T-Piece: When and Why
Just like the Airline Industry, Safety Has to be Nonnegotiable in Healthcare
Lectures from the ICU: Hypoxic Respiratory Failure
Lecture from the ICU: Sepsis
Lecture Series: Mechanical Ventilation
The Unsustainable Math of Medicare Physician Payment Cuts