Dr Thaer Ahmad III (The US Healthcare Crisis, Murdered First Responders in Gaza and Israeli Protests) - Episode 1069
Behind The Shield
James Geering
4.9 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 123 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Thaer Ahmad, MD is a board-certified emergency medicine physician working at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Chicago. Dr. Ahmad is the assistant program director for the emergency medicine residency program. He serves as both the global health director and medical ethics director for the emergency department at Advocate Christ. Dr. Ahmad is also a clinical assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a board member of PAMA. The Palestinian American medical association.
He has served in Gaza at Nasser and Al-Aqsa Hospital, as well as in Lebanon during the ongoing conflict. Prior, Dr. Ahmad has spent time in Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Kenya, and Greece working on local healthcare capacity building projects.
In this third conversation, we discuss the US healthcare crisis, how lobbyists are profiting from American illness, the deliberate blocking of aid in Gaza, the murder of 15 Palestinian firefighter/paramedics, Israeli protests, finding a stem cell match for a terminally ill girl and so much more.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Team Builder, yet another company that's doing great things for the first responder community. |
| 0:07.0 | As a strength and conditioning coach myself who also trains tactical athletes, |
| 0:11.0 | dissemination of wellness information is one of the biggest challenges. |
| 0:16.0 | Now, TeamBuilder is the premier strength and conditioning software for tactical athletes. And there are several features that really impressed me. |
| 0:23.6 | Firstly, there is a full exercise library, so you, the personal trainer, does not have to create that within your own department. |
| 0:31.6 | Secondly, you can send out programming, but also individualize, which I love. |
| 0:36.6 | So you blanket program for everyone. |
| 0:39.4 | Now you can tweak based on someone's injury, someone's need to maybe drop some body composition, |
| 0:45.0 | rather than having to write a program for every single person on their own. |
| 0:49.6 | TeamBuilder also allows you to build custom questionnaires to collate health and wellness data. It integrates |
| 0:55.7 | with wearables. And I think one of the most important things is obviously it tracks. To me, |
| 1:01.3 | it's imperative that we as a profession start tracking our people from day one and then over the full |
| 1:08.6 | span of their career, therefore catching potential wellness issues and injuries before they happen. |
| 1:16.0 | Now, if you want to try TeamBuilder, they are offering you, the audience of the Behind the Shield podcast, a free 14-day trial to experience all of the features. |
| 1:26.5 | And if you want to take a deeper dive into Team Builder, |
| 1:29.1 | listen to episode 132 with Melissa Macardo or go to team builder.com. And I'll spell that to you |
| 1:37.3 | because it's not as you think. T-E-A-M-B-U-I-L-D-R.com. Welcome to the Behind a Shield podcast. |
| 1:46.0 | As always, my name's James Gearing, and this week it is my absolute honor to welcome back for the third time |
| 1:51.0 | Chicago Emergency Physician and Humanitarian Dr. Thea Ahmad. |
| 1:58.0 | Now, for those of you who listened to this for a while, |
| 2:00.5 | Thayer first came on on episode |
| 2:02.1 | 892 at the beginning of 2024. He then, for the second time, was on at 948, and this is the third |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from James Geering, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of James Geering and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.