For the first time in the history of emergency medicine cases,

which normally brings Canada's

brightest minds in emergency medicine to you, we have with us a man who needs no introduction,

Dr. Amal Matu from Baltimore. He's going to be our very first non-Canadian guest expert on emergency medicine cases.

We're recording this from the Emergency Medicine Update Conference in Toronto.

Dr. Matu, it's a pleasure and an honor. Welcome.

Well, thanks. It's an honor for me to be here.

And this is really a great podcast that you've put together

over the years. I'm happy to share what you call a best case. I call actually probably a worst

case. So, but I think there's some great teaching points that we can talk about from this.

All right, Alma, let it rip. Let's hear your worst case ever, which I'm sure is

the best case ever. It was an awful case, actually. It's one that I still think about oftentimes.

It was from residency. I was a second year resident in Philadelphia, and I was rotating through

Methodist Hospital, which is in South Philadelphia, which

for people that know Philadelphia, this South Philly is probably the, maybe the Chi

State Capitol of the country, and there's a lot of heart disease.

So it was a great place to rotate, but a lot of heart disease, a lot of lung disease, and

a lot of older patients living in South Philly.

And we had a pretty routine patient dropped off what we call a pop drop,

and that's when the family comes by and drops off pop and says,

he's not acting right, and we're heading to the mall.

Literally, that's what happened.

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