#23 ICU Doctor Interview - Medical Ethics, COVID-19, and Lifestyle

Dr. David Oxman is a Critical Care Doctor and associate professor of medicine here at Jefferson and the program director for the critical care medicine fellowship. He went to medical school at Temple, where he also completed his residency in IM. HE completed four fellowships in Infectious Diseases at Tufts, Surgical Critical Care at Harvard, Medical critical care at Hahnemann, and Medical ethics at Harvard. He is currently the medical school's ethics and professionalism thread director and runs the hospital ethics consultation service here at Jefferson. I also had the personal luxury of being in a student group led by Dr. Oxman, where we had discussions about being medical students and our hospital experiences.
Oct 9th
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0:00 - Intro
0:51 - Statistics About Critical Care
4:36 - What Is Critical Care?
5:48 - Journey Into Medicine and Critical Care
10:30 - Why Critical Care?
19:07 - An Average Week/Day Balancing Academia, ICU, and Ethics Consultation
25:32 - Ethics Consultation and Ethical Dilemmas in the Hospital
42:47 - Best Thing About Being a Critical Care Doctor
43:44 - Worst Thing About Being a Critical Care Doctor
45:19 - If I Give You $100 Million, What Would You Do?
48:25 - Interest in Academia
51:07 - Thoughts About Med Students on Social Media
55:44 - Common Myth About Critical Care Doctors
56:27 - Changes Over the Years and the Future of Critical Care
1:07:02 - Advice for People Looking Into Critical Care
1:07:59 - Maximizing Competitiveness
1:09:35 - Advice to People Entering a Career in Medicine
1:11:49 - Book Recommendations
1:14:25 - Lessons From COVID, Changes in Practice and Burnout
1:23:29 - What Advice Would You Give Your 18-Year-Old Self?
1:25:30 - Closing Message for People Looking Into Critical Care
1:29:18 - Closing Message
1:31:13 - Outro
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Resources
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham: a.co/d/eT0pUty
My Own Country by Abraham Verghese: a.co/d/ffD8lh7
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I see so much of myself in Dr Oxman. I used to work in rehab as an occupational therapy, which is heavily socially oriented. Now I’m in medicine, half way thru the course. I am heavily interested in cardiology and critical care, and I want to do both - which I haven’t heard of anyone doing so in my country. I am inspired, thank you.

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Zach it’s people like you that inspire young students like I once was to go into medicine. It’s fascinating watching your personality develop to where you just exude confidence in these videos. Congrats Doctor.

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2024 Happy New Year while eating my late lunch half of your conversation was missed on my part.
Zac Highley a clever interviewer. While you as a doctor in your field of work discuss situations that the 🌎 world becomes more aware of. Especially during the recent Pandemic. Living downunder NZ. There
is a huge sense of relief. Our health remains consistent. We can still self test. For those living at a
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