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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 …

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…