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The World’s Okayest Medic Podcast — 379 episodes
Timber Vignogna/Response Ready Fitness
Friday Rapid Fire Questions
Zaf Qasim MD: Crashing Peds, Asthma, Anaphylaxis
Saturday Coffee Talk (9/5/26)
Conversation with a Paramedic/Med Student
Saturday Coffee Talk (8/29/26)
Friday Coffee Talk (8/21/26)
Saturday Coffee Talk (8/15/26)
Dr. Mark Piehl
Saturday Coffee Talk (Plasma) - 8/8/26
Greg Shea - "Rising from Ground Zero"
BONUS COFFEE TALK with Dan Rauh
Saturday Coffee Talk (7/25/26)
Saturday Coffee Talk (7/18/26)
Friday Coffee Talk (7/10/26)
Lil' Pharma
Saturday Coffee Talk (6/27/26)
Saturday Coffee Talk (6/20/26)
Thoughts on Precepting: The FTO's Priorities of Life
Saturday Coffee Talk (6/6/26)
Saturday Coffee Talk (5/30/26)
(Late) Sunday Coffee Talk (5/24/26)
LATE Saturday Evening Coffee Talk (5/16/26)
Dr. Mario Rugna & Kirk Smith, RT: Using the Vent on 911 Calls Should be Standard
Friday (Early) Coffee Talk (5/8/26)
Rick Maricle: Leadership at a New Agency
Saturday Coffee Talk (5/1/26)
Dan Rauh: Lactate, Troponin, I-Stat, Sepsis, and More
Saturday Coffee Talk (4/25/26)
Jeremy Ulrich: 10 Things the EMS Student Needs to Know
Saturday Coffee Talk (4/18/26)
Bill Berlin RN: Communicating with the Chronically Sick Kid and Family
Saturday Coffee Talk (4/11/26)
Conversation with a Newer EMT
Saturday Coffee Talk (4/4/26)
Peds: Safe Transport and Pro Tips with Molly Harper
Saturday Coffee Talk (3/28/26)
Case Study: PE Presenting as Left Breast Pain
Saturday Coffee Talk (3/21/26)
(Early) Coffee Talk 3/12/26
Conversation with a Medical Director: Nate Zahustecher
Saturday Coffee Talk (3/7/26)
BONUS Mini Episode: Burn Intubation
Jen Brennan and Ben Podsiadlo
Saturday Coffee Talk (2/28/26)
The Coffee Talk is EARLY THIS WEEK (2/19/26)
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Sal Cortez and ISTM
Saturday Coffee Talk (2/14/26)
Nicole Hooser
SUNDAY (Late) Coffee Talk (2/8/26)
Dan Koloden
Saturday Coffee Talk (1/31/26)
Ryan Bolger
Saturday Coffee Talk (1/24/26)
Sal Cortez
Saturday Coffee Talk (1/17/26)
Dr. Nate Zahustecher: EMS Awareness of Medetomidine Overdose and Withdrawal
Saturday Coffee Talk (1/10/26)
Saturday Coffee Talk (1/3/26)
Saturday Coffee Talk (12/27/25)
Saturday Coffee Talk (12/20/25)
Saturday Coffee Talk (12/13/25)
HEMS Utilization and Safety Panel
FRIDAY Coffee Talk (12/5/25)
TEMS Chat with PrepMedic
Saturday Morning Coffee Talk (11/29/25)
Drs. Mark Piehl & Peter Antevy: Peds Trauma, Blood, and Much More
Saturday Morning Coffee Talk (11/15/25)
James Johns: Mobile Stroke Units
Saturday Morning Coffee Talk (11/8/25)
Artificial Intelligence in EMS (with a Wilderness Paramedic)
Saturday Morning Coffee Talk (11/1/25)
Drs. Scott Weingart and Nick Ghionni: Approaching the Really Sick Pulmonary Patient
Saturday Morning Coffee Talk (10/25/25)
The AHA 2025 Updates are a Nothingburger
Paul Sheats: Education, Effective Sim
Saturday Morning Coffee Talk (10/18/25)
Saturday Morning Coffee Talk (10/11/25)
The Intubation Decision
Saturday Morning Coffee Talk (10/4/25)
Saturday Morning Coffee Talk (9/27/25)
The EMT's Perspective
@PulmToilet's Crusade Against SCAPE and High-Dose Nitroglycerin
Sunday Coffee Talk (9/21/25)
Debriefing the New England Whole Blood Summit
LIVE at Crash and Learn with the HLTH Crew
Saturday Morning Coffee Talk (9/13/25)
Community Paramedics: Sam Magill and Cody Winniford
Saturday Morning Coffee Talk (9/6/25)
Precepting, Orientation (and More) with Kayla Katt
Yes, That Wide Complex Tach is Probably VT
Listener Questions, NEMSAC Termination
Random Ramblings: Dan Rauh
Case Study: Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Jake Potter & Josh Cooke
Surgical Airway Debrief
Case Study: 84 Year Old with Chest Pain
Conversation with a 911 Telecommunicator
July Listener Questions (Clinical)
Hard Hitting Listener Questions
Introspection, Discourse, and Whiny Dispatchers
Dan Rauh: Really Sick Acidotic Patients
EMS Content Creators
Random Ramblings: 6/1/25
No BS: "I Want to Be a Flight Medic (or Nurse)"
May Listener Questions
Jake Potter: Sedation, Agitation, and Rabbit-holes
"ChiLdBiRth iS a bLs CaLL"
Dr. Bert Schiffer: Random Ramblings with a Physician Medical Director
Random Ramblings with Mustafa Sidik
The Crashing CHF Patient with Collin Grothaus, NP
Life Advice, Jumping Ship, & The Death of Crozer EMS
April Listener Questions
Avoiding Complacency
Pass the FP-C (or CCP-C)
Dr. Stephen Wood
Trauma Rantings
@PulmToilet and Melody Bishop RT
You want to be a good EMT? DO EMT THINGS.
DnR Prehospital Education: Canadian Paramedics TAKE OVER the Podcast!
Listener Questions: March 2025
Mini Episode: Epidural Hematoma
Random Ramblings 2/21
COPD Follow-Up with Melody Bishop, RT
The COPD Episode
"BuT iT's AnOthEr ToOL"
Random Ramblings 2/4/25
More Listener Questions with Nurse Gwenny and Wes Nelson
Ashley's Back! Listener Questions
EMS Education with "Dialed Medics"
Prehospital Docs and Paramedics vs. Paramedics Alone
Endocarditis
Resuscitate Before You Intubate (Coop's Question)
More Cardiac Arrest with Josh Cooke
Wrap Up: Leadership, Accountability, Resiliency, Coaching
Cody Winniford - Ordinary Ops Medic
Good Leadership in EMS
Random Ramblings 12/10
Chest Pain Differential Diagnosis
TEMS Wrap-Up
Steve Wood: TEMS, Trauma, & More
Dr. Patrick Sullivan: Metabolic Health, First Responder Health
Tactical EMS: Lessons Learned and Concept Evolution
Chris Wright: Lessons in Trauma from Ukraine
The Five Things that Make a Good EMS Provider
Responding to the Keyboard Warriors, Minor Chest Pain from Minor MVAs
Drs. Mark Piehl & Peter Antevy on the Prehospital Blood Debate
Sick Little Kids - Redux
Do the Ordinary Extraordinarily Well
Intubation Ramblings: Protocols, Devices, Techniques
Random Talk: Sept 17, 2024
Thoughts on a Meta-Analysis Casting Doubt on Prehospital Blood
Blood Stuff with Rick Maricle
"StArT a MeDiC 4 HyPeRtEnSiON"
Listener Clinical Questions (Prologue: HEMS Rant)
The First Two Years of Being a Medic are Hard
Culture of Safety, Culture of Stupidity
Winning Paramedic School: Hard Work
MORE Rethinking Traumatic Arrest
Glitchy Virtual Happy Hour with Wes
Podcast Therapy: Me, My Story, & How the Podcast Started
Random Talk: Teaching in Baltimore with Cody and Moose
Trauma, Blood, & Politics
"Scoop & Run:" Police Trauma Transport
Code Debrief with Josh from Alert Medic One
Random Ramblings: 6/20/24
Scene Flight: Masive Facial Trauma
More Respiratory! Melody Bishop RT is back!
"Drop Off Imposter Syndrome"
Random Talk: Cardiac Monitors, Life & Death, LODDs
Random Talk: FOAMed, Social Media, "Progressive" Agencies
Fire-Based EMS
Kirk from Hamilton: Bringing the ICU Vent to the Ambulance
I Pivoted on POCUS
Peds Resus and The Tortured Paramedics Department
Ashlynn O'Dell, Being a Young Paramedic, Imposter Syndrome
Expert Panel: Mental Health
Mini Episode: Can't See the Cords
Questioning the Prehospital Airway Narrative
Nurse Gwenny Takes Over the Podcast
The Fine Print: Mechanical CPR Devices and SGAs (briefly)
Random Talk: Nurse Gwenny
Boomer Medics
The Boomer Medic Boogeyman: Albuterol and Flash Pulmonary Edema
Ashley is Back with Listener Questions
Random Talk
Making the Transition from 911 Paramedic to Critical Care
Right Heart Disasters with The Critical Care NP
Probably the Best Vent Podcast Ever Made with Melody Bishop RT
Delayed Sequence Intubation
Mental Health: Patrick Sullivan, DO and Ketamine Therapy
The Aorta did What?
Journal Club with Gwenny
Unscripted Critical Care Talk with Ryan Bolger
The Elijah McClain Case
Where is EMS Headed and Who is Driving?
Unscripted Listener Questions with Wes
Too Sick for Transfer?
Huge Pleural Effusion and Vile ABGs
Culture, Attitude, Professionalism with Rick Maricle
CPR Induced Consciousness, Education, and Leadership
Shock Trauma
Listner Questions 11/1/23
Resus Sequence Intubation
Degrees, The Paramedic Practitioner
Tools, Toys, and Patient Assessment
Friday Night Randomness
Case Study: AIDS/ARDS/Sepsis/TB Guy
Leadership: It's Up to Us
Raising the Bar for Paramedic Education - Part 2: Leadership, Sim, Stats
Raising the Bar for Paramedic Education: Part 1 - The Right People
Mentoring & Precepting: A "Philosophical" Discussion
Unscripted: Urban EMS
LVADs
10 Rules for BLS Providers
Toolbags, Haters, FOAMed, & EBM
Air Medical Ops: The Reality
Nighttime Chatter with Ashley
Product Review: Tempus Pro
Sick Little Kids
The BLS Divide: Unscripted Ranting with Sarah
"Stuff About Burns"
Unscripted and Unprepared with Gwenny and Ashley
Rippin' Aortas
Q&A with Bill
On-Line Medical Control Must Die
Supraglottic Airway Update
Paramedic School
Rethinking Prehospital Trauma Arrest
Shooting the Breeze with Bill
Unscripted Sunday with Ashley
Naloxone: A Rational Approach
Unscripted with Gwenny
OMI and Prehospital 12-Lead EKGs
Friday Night Thoughts
Pericarditis
The Sh*t Storm in Springfield
Rapid Fire Q&A
The New NREMT Test and Passing the Boards
Transporting the Cardiac ICU Patient
Holiday Message
Woke CPR Dummies, Crying Doctors, Albuterol, & Fentanyl
"You're Supposed to Get My Back" with Bill
Guest Panel Discussion
Things to Know if You Want to REALLY Want to Fly
High Flow Nasal Cannula
High Risk OB
Recent Questions from the DMsphere
Bonus: Supraglottic Airways
Debriefing the Code from Hell
Meaningful Clinical Competencies
TAME: Fitness and Tactical EMS
PROBING the POCUS Question
The Myth of Anaphylaxis
BLS Crews: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Sarah Motley: Endocrine, Diabetic Patients
Unscripted: Off-the-Cuff Discussion
"But The Cards Said She Was Changing Color!:" PMD Stinks
The Liver ICU Hot Mess
Downtime Chat with Bill
Patient Assessment vs. ASSessment
Old People Do the Darnedest Things
Friday Afternoon Clinical
Status Asthmaticus
Fixing Paramedic Education
Lies They Taught You in Paramedic School
If You Must Intubate the Patient with Metabolic Acidosis...
Creating a Culture of Idiocy
EMS Education with the Training Coordinator
Baby Codes
Recipe Medic - Part Deux
The Puking Podcast
The Acute Abdomen
The "Recipe Medic"
BLS Stroke
CCT: Peds Ocean Drowning
Uvalde, Mission Mindset
CCT 101: Trauma Transfer
MINI BONUS: Emerging From Darkness (First Responder Mental Health)
Critical Care Transport 101
100th Episode
GSW Logistics
Operational Perspectives from an EMS Pilot
SWAT Medic Stuff, Blood, & Gear
Tachyarrhythmias, Clinical Decisionmaking
The NAEMSE 2022 Conference Looks Awful
"Subject Fallen"
Damage Control Resus
Professionalism, Public Perception, Organizational Pride, and Angry Volunteers
Medical Errors, RaDonda Vaught, Organizational Narcissism part Deux
Ketamine Is the Schiznit
C-Collars Are Stupid
Q&A: Precepting, Being Close to the Hospital, FP-C Exam
The Chest Pain Episode
My Dad Talks About Strokes
Posterior Stroke
A Head Full of Blood
Analysis Paralysis
Pediatric GSW; Using Warm Bodies to Fill Spots
Blunt Chest Trauma
Listener Questions
Sunday Night Debrief
EMS Physicians, Volunteer EMS
More Thinking About Airway (and EBM)
Rethinking Airway
New Year, New Dumpster Fire
Christmas Clinical
Happily Hypoxic
Rectal Foreign Bodies
Thanksgiving Clinical
Normalization of Deviance
Differential Diagnosis
Lessons from My Partner Bill: A True OG
Saturday Night Clinical
Staffing Shortages, Work Conditions, Corporate Greed
EMS Organizational Narcissism
Calcium Facts for the EMS Provider
Neonatal Resus, Gestalt, Heuristics
Random Q&A
Not Killing Your TBI Patient
When You Get Investigated or Sued
Pelvic Trauma
Workplace Drama
Mitigating Stupidity: Risk Management for the EMS Provider
Burnout
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation, Med Twitter, Delta Variant
Hyponatremia and Other Randomness
Traumatic Shock - Part 2
Traumatic Shock: Part 1
Mad Dog Leadership
Splenic Trauma
MCIs, Astronauts, & Checklists
Becoming a Flight Medic; Gear
Cardiac Tamponade with Shayne Bierman
EMS Week, EMS Education
Traumatic Asphyxia, The 12-Lead EKG and the Student
Last Week's Patient from Hell
Sunday Night Ramblings with Mike and Mike
The Middle of the Road Employee, COVID, Evidence Based Medicine
NSTEMI, Accountability, Anemia, and Amish People
Calling Out the National Registry
Bicarb and Other Ramblings
New Updates
Mental Health; Mike and Missy Intro
It's Been a While: Random Ramblings, Updates
Pediatric Upper Airway, COVID-19, New Business Venture
Bad Co-Workers, Managing Conflict
IABP Basics and Oh S&*t!!!
A Casual Night at the Hangar with Shayne RN
Mini Follow-Up: Leadership is EVERYTHING
UPS Leadership Style
Certification Exams
Q&A Episode 1
Flash Pulmonary Edema
Pediatric Airway Management
2020 Rant
When Chiropractors Attack, Kawasaki Disease
TP-C: Wound Ballistics
Civil Unrest, Ranting, & TP-C Exam
ECMO: The Good, Bad, and the Ugly
Eyeball Leadership, Pulmonary Embolism
Short, Rapid-Fire Case Study: Thyroid Storm
Attila the Hun: What "The Scourge of God" Can Teach Us About Being Good EMS Providers and Leaders
COVID 19 Social Media, Obstetrics, Aortic Dissection
Suicidology
Critical Care Transports, Don't Destroy Your Leadership Capital
Burn Patients
Sharpen Your Saw, Don't Be a Slug
Ventilators for Dummies, Lessons from a Peds NP
BONUS: COVID-19 Cardiovascular Effects
Atypical Stroke
The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918
Rectal Bleeding, Meet Ashley, "Non-Cardiac" Chest Pain
Dealing with the Alcoholic Patient
ARDS, Bleeding Control, SWAT, Leadership
Aortoenteric Fistula, COVID-19, Bad Attitudes in EMS
Gear, Head Bangers, & Critical Stress Incidents
Inaugural Episode, Analgesia, Angel Dust, QA