ER Docs and Crucial Talks

"I have enough." Welcome back!  Thanks to our ongoing subscribers and listeners.  If you're here for the first time and like what you're hearing, consider checking out our previous episodes and leaving positive feedback.  Your positive feedback helps us grow the podcast. Tonight we discuss the concept of "I have enough."  We garnered the discussion from a true story a...

Hello and welcome. Tonight Cullen and Raj discuss an introspective youtube video by Bishop Robert Barron.  Whether you're religious, spiritual, agnostic, atheistic or any shade in between, you'll likely enjoy this discussion.  They'll go into how we can perceive the unimportant temptations in our lives with wisdom and make a determination how to put these aside appropriately in orde...

Welcome back. Tonight, the guys discuss the philosophical rule, Hanlon's Razor (link below), and its implications on how we can perceive and misperceive the world around us and/or the people around us.  Have you ever felt everyone was out to get you?  Have you ever felt the world was conspiring against you?  Have you ever felt that if people would just listen to you then your life would be so...

Trauma.  High adrenaline events.  Where do you put the emotion, the sadness, the anger, the rage, the confusion, and the myriad of emotions that well up after the event is over?  Bad shift at work, near car wreck on the highway, a loved one got seriously ill?  This episode is for you. Tonight the Docs discuss this very topic, high adrenaline events, and they discuss the Shawn Ryan Podcast, Episode...

This topic was bound to surface.  AI seems to be all over the news and internet lately and it's about time the ER Docs discussed the nuances of artificial intelligence and its potential integration into emergency medicine and health care in general. Raj and Cullen curate a great talk on AI and discuss the big pros and cons as they see it to implementing AI in healthcare.  They also ask ChatGP...

Welcome to Season 2! For those who joined us for our first season journey THANK YOU!  Welcome to our new listeners, we promise not to disappoint. Tonight Cullen and Raj get into the following concepts: - Assigning excessive importance to material objects - Trading time for meaning vs trading time for money - Saying "Yes" to something means saying "No" to one or many things - If...

What do you fear?  Do you have a top 3?  Do you recall the last time you truly felt real fear, and perhaps you even thought your life was at stake? Tonight Cullen and Raj will discuss fear:  its physiological and evolutionary origins, its purpose, and of course its downfalls.  They'll discuss strategies they personally use to navigate out of the fearful experience and also how they deal with...

Welcome back! Tonight we have for you three  great cases from the emergency department. It's been a while since we've done a case series, and back by popular demand are these cases that will hopefully put you in the cockpit of our lives in the war against illness that we fight every day as ER physicians. Cullen and Raj contemplate these cases in depth and discuss the nuances of human bia...

"We are going to use basketball, we are not going to let basketball use us." This one will fascinate you as it did us.  Who do you mentor ... who are you mentored by?  One thing is absolutely certain as we go through tonight's discussion:  to have a great mentorship relationship you need great mutual accountability.  Meet Greg Fleming: basketball coach, entrepreneur, mentor, mentee....

Welcome to part 2 of Stoicism! Tonight we deep dive into concepts such as retrospective and prospective negative visualization and how they can improve your quality of life. We discuss the free Daily Stoic daily email and Ryan Holiday's book, Stillness is the Key: https://dailystoic.com/email https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1788162064/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_2CWGPFGMHRJS6JY15XBP Invariably some of o...

Have you seen Yellowstone? If not, please consider doing so, it's an amazing show and leads us into our first of two episodes on Stoicism.  Is the cowboy the modern day Stoic? https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-tv/yellowstone?cid=2202brndylwstpkpdsearch8086&utm_campaign=2202brndylwst&utm_source=pk_ggl_gglsa&utm_medium=pd_search_nonbr_srcpy&utm_term=71700000073828270&utm_cont...

Please welcome our friend and guest Jim Arthur.  Jim comes to us fresh off our Grand Canyon trip, he hiked the RIM 2 RIM trail several times including the grueling 46 mile, 18 hour, RIM to RIM to RIM hike!  Jim is a leader in customer service of a southern US based corporation and he has spent years learning and cultivating leadership on the job.  He taught us first pearls of success in hiking the...

Can you overcome the obstacle of your mind? What is your physical and mental limit? Can your mind delete any physical pain if you learn how to put mind over body? Have you ever experienced it, and how did you know you had nothing left?  Tonight Cullen and Raj will discuss their much awaited trip to the Grand Canyon.  They embark on the one-day RIM-2-RIM hike that took them down 5700 ft and then up...

This is, perhaps, the most crucial talk we have had to date.  This is part 2 of 2. Do you believe in God? Are you a person of "faith?" Do you believe in no God?  In a higher power?  Do you believe in yourself? What do you think happens after you die? If you are atheist, agnostic, of any faith or religion, or of Christianity, then believe it or not this episode is for you.  Why does this...

This is, perhaps, the most crucial talk we have had to date.  This is Part 1 of 2. Do you believe in God? Are you a person of "faith?" Do you believe in no God?  In a higher power?  Do you believe in yourself? What do you think happens after you die? If you are atheist, agnostic, of any faith or religion, or of Christianity, then believe it or not this episode is for you.  Why does this...

What is your Dunbar number? What IS the Dunbar number? Who are your greatest friends and advocates?  Are they blood, are they not?  Why did they become so close to you and why do you choose to keep trusting them to protect you and advocate for you? Tonight Cullen and Raj will deep dive into friendships.  They'll pull from Robin Dunbar's book: Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most...

We are privileged to announce our new name for the podcast:  ER Docs and Crucial Talks. Please listen in tonight and join us for a discussion on our journey from our previous title to the new one.  We put a lot of thought and consideration into this decision and we are very optimistic that this will be most representative of our mission to have crucial talks about ourselves and our lives to better...

The Four Agreements:  1. Be impeccable with your word  2. Make no assumptions  3. Don't take anything personally  4. Always do your best  The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom is a self-help book by bestselling author Don Miguel Ruiz with Janet Mills. The book offers a code of conduct claiming to be based on ancient Toltec wisdom that advocates freedom from self-limiting...

What do you not know about yourself?  Let's go there.  What is deep inside?  What do others know about you that you don't know about yourself?  The good.... the bad. Is this getting uncomfortable?  Good. Welcome back. Tonight we turn the cameras inward once again and discuss sociological/psychological concepts such as the Johari Window and "unknown unknowns." There's a lot...

Are you ready?  This is one for those with a strong stomach.  Cullen and Raj take a detour to discuss something that is incredibly present but also incredibly absent in the human dialogue:  the near death experience. We bring in an amazing guest, Amber, as we discuss with her, a veteran critical care ICU nurse, the nuances of the dying process, family interrelationships, the near death experience...

Have you exhausted your stores of love and compassion for other humans?  Do you feel withdrawn or quiet, and if so would you like to hear us discuss this part of life tonight? Welcome back. Tonight Cullen and Raj tackle compassion fatigue.  This is a real thing!  Invariably one or all of you listening has experiencing this even this in the past, perhaps even this week. What can we do about it?  Ho...

Welcome back!  Thanks for listening and thanks for telling a friend! We are sorry for the delay in episodes but we are back!  Pandemic is slowly getting better and more Americans are getting vaccinated which are both wonderful things.  Tonight, Cullen and Raj delve into an interesting discussion about decision making strategies for critical situations such as on the job or perhaps at times in your...

Welcome!  Tonight we have a spectacular guest, Dr. Aaron Dominguez, Ed. D.  He is a premiere educational leader in Houston, Texas.  Aaron comes to us with a wonderful story of his upbringing, his family, and the life lessons his father taught him. Now, at the age of 42, Aaron is the father of two amazing boys, married to an amazing wife, and is credited with turning around and finding excellence f...

Welcome back to another great episode. We are so lucky to have Robin, an amazing ER physician colleage, friend, and life advisor of Raj's on the show tonight.  Robin is a 20 year veteran ER physician and there isn't anything she hasn't seen or been through in the emergency department.  Cullen drives the interview tonight and gets into the weeds discussing Robin's passions for l...

Who is looking out for you and your mental well being?  Do you have a therapist or a good friend or family member to talk to about challenging issues?  Have you avoided thinking about this topic because it's a bit awkward or sometimes associated with a stigma of weakness?  Are you working on the frontlines of this pandemic?  If any of your answers is even possibly a 'yes' then this...