SGEM Xtra: Diane Birnbaumer – Legend of Emergency Medicine - The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine

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Date: May 12th, 2017

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Diane Birnbaumer is a Senior Clinical Faculty at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, CA. She is also an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Diane will be a keynote speaker at FeminEM conference in New York City this October called FIX2017.

Legends of Emergency Medicine: This is the second episode in the summer series of SGEM Xtras called Legends of Emergency Medicine. These episodes highlight some of the pioneers and leaders of our specialty. I hope these episodes will give the next generation of emergency physicians access to some super stars in our field via social media.

The format of the show will be similar. We will start by finding out some a non-medical thing about the legend: What song they picked as their music for the episode and why? Then we will tell the back story of how we first met. The more formal part of the episode asks the legend five questions. Listen to the podcast on iTunes to hear their responses.

Five Questions for Diane:

What is the biggest positive change you have seen in emergency medicine over your career?
What is the biggest negative change you have seen in emergency medicine over your career?
What contribution to emergency medicine that you made are you most proud of so far?
What advice would you give to someone who is interested going into emergency medicine?
How do you picture emergency medicine looking in the next ten years?

Theme Music: Each legend was asked to pick theme music for their episode and explain why they picked that particular song. Diane picked Brick House by the Commodores.

I hope you enjoy this summer SGEM Xtra series of podcasts. Don’t Panic – The SGEM will be back in the fall for Season#6. You can expect more critical appraisals of recent publications trying to cut the knowledge translation window down from over ten years to less than one year using the power of social media. The ultimate goal of the SGEM is for patients to get the best care based on the best evidence.