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How to Study a Textbookby: Tom Meyer, MSN, BS, RN, CCRN, ACNP-BC Textbooks are not novels. They’re not meant to be read start to finish, word for word, so you can follow the plot. Textbooks are meant to present comprehensive information…

Recently I attended the HH Cardiology Update conference, held at the UA Huntsville College of Nursing. This was a Saturday morning class that, you know, sounded like a good idea at the time I signed up. Honestly if I hadn't already paid the registra…

On this week's episode, my guest discusses living with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID). This is a relatively new diagnosis, added to the DSM in 2013. Many medical professionals are probably not familiar with it or may recall learni…

On this week's episode of Critical Incident, Paramedic Dylan Kessler tells the harrowing story of performing his first cricothyrotomy on a live (barely) patient under less than ideal circumstances. This was my first attempt at interviewing someone …

This week's episode is a fantastic discussion with a lovely patient of mine, Ms. Carloss Bauer. She very eloquently describes her experience being a self-described "hardcore smoker" and how she recently managed to quit for the first time ever. Not …

Monday's episode is the 2nd installment of Critical Incident, the segment of the podcast dedicated to sharing stories about working in medicine. This one is about a call I ran 15 or 20 years ago. The patient coded unexpectedly after we had arrived …

Here's the playlist from this week's musical episode, which is based on an actual mix CD I made with songs that were meaningful to me early in my EMS career. You can hear the actual songs if you listen to the episode on Spotify! 100 in a 55 by Po…

Tomorrow's episode is way different than anything else I have done to date. It's a "mixtape," a playlist of songs that were meaningful to me early in my EMS career based on an actual mix CD I made years ago. Here's the catch:  Because the songs…

I am starting a segment of the podcast that I'm calling "Critical Incident." Right now the plan is to publish these episodes on the weeks in between the regular KP episodes. These are stories from throughout my career that I think are worth sharing.…

I am super excited about the next episode. I interview my boss, Dr. Brian James, about practicing medicine in the real world. I decided to call the episode "The Art of Medicine," because really that's what it all comes down to; putting all of the tr…