Hello and welcome back to Agrak. I'm Jed Walpaw, and I'm really excited to introduce you all today to a new fantastic podcast called the

Medical Safety Podcast.

I'm going to play their second episode here that goes through three airline disasters.

Adam, one of the hosts, is a pilot in addition to being a doctor.

And they'll talk about what was learned from them and how we can apply that to anesthesiology

and medicine in general.

The hosts are both family docs in Canada who have done additional training in anesthesiology and medicine in general. The hosts are both family

docs in Canada who have done additional training in anesthesiology. It's a unique pathway in Canada

that allows anesthesia services to reach areas without doctors who have done an entire

anesthesiology residency. The hosts are Adam Shahada and Amir Hamid. Adam is a family practice

anesthetist, lawyer, and professional pilot.

He completed his undergraduate medical education at the University of Toronto, followed by his

family medicine residency and anesthesia training at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

Amir is a family physician who mostly does anesthesia in a variety of settings from rural to

remote. When he's not in the OR, he is either in a small emergency department or covering some of his

colleagues in a family medicine clinic.

He attended McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario for his MD, family medicine residency,

and anesthesia training.

Overall, the medical safety podcast will look at how to improve our health care system

by integrating human factors into system safety.

This starts with improved learning for medical incident investigation and eventually proactive

safety measures to make the health care system better without waiting for an incident to occur.

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