Welcome to the Emergency Medicine Cases podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Anton Hellman, bringing you Canada's brightest minds in emergency medicine from EMC studios in Toronto.

EM cases is part of SREMI, Schwartz-Risman Emergency Medicine Institute, the nonprofit organization dedicated to improving EM care through research

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of care. I love fomed. I love learning. I love accumulating knowledge and applying it to my practice.

In 20 years into my career, I feel like I have a pretty good grasp on most things

emergency medicine. But the one thing I've lacked knowledge about that almost every emergency

provider will eventually need to know, or at least would want to know, so they don't feel

like they just got punched in the mouth, is what to do and what to expect when you get sued.

And it turns out, I'm not alone. Most emergency providers know little about the medical legal

process and how to handle getting sued. And just like becoming an expert in managing emergency

airways, we really should have a plan before we get sued,

because what typically happens is that we have no plan and little knowledge,

and we get punched in the mouth.

Then all kinds of anxiety, anger, self-doubt, second-guessing, almost delusional thinking sometimes,

and even quitting the profession may ensue, which isguessing, almost delusional thinking sometimes, and even quitting the profession

may ensue, which is to be expected when we practice in a culture of wanting to be perfect,

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