Okay, welcome my name is Devine. This is episode 416 of the Devine

Intervention Podcasts and in today's podcast I'm going to be starting something I call

an ICU series. So this is the ICU series for

residents and medical students. So I'm gonna make sure it cuts across all

strata. So if you're a medical student you definitely benefit from this.

If you're a resident you definitely benefit from this. And in today's series what I'm going to be

discussing is the foundation preparation like literally what do you need to do to prepare

for an IC rotation and I mean you'll probably find this advice to be pretty useful as well for essentially any other

rotation that you do. But again my focus is going to be exclusively on the ICU. Now one thing I want to say with all of this is please the advice I'm

giving here is not intended to guide your medical decision-making again. This is solely for educational purposes

Just again something you need to say just to again cover cover oneself

Okay, so how do you prepare for an ice0 rotation? What's like a foundation? Because the thing is if you have the wrong foundation, you can start building a house without having a good, without having a good foundation, but when trouble comes that house is going to fall over.

And when that house falls over, you'd be like, wow, I wish I dealt with the

foundation. So it's always good to deal with the foundation

appropriately from the beginning

so that you are not running helter-skelter when problems come.

I mean, Warren Buffett uses this quote.

It says that you only know who has been swimming naked

when the tide goes out.

So just be very careful.

Build a good foundation.

If you have a good foundation, then when trials and troubles and

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