Before we dive into highlights from the 30th annual Emu conference, if you're one of the 8,000 fine folks who have signed up for the EMKES newsletter that comes out once every two weeks, the one that keeps you up to date on the latest that EMKCases has to offer, be sure also to sign up for the Q&A Pearl of the Week and the Just the Nuggets emails where we review

each main episode podcast in divided chunks. And speaking of consolidating your knowledge from the

main episode podcasts, hopefully you've checked out the fairly new rapid reviews video series

on the EMK's site. We've got a team of six people working really hard to

help that knowledge stick in your huge brains so that you can take stellar care of your

patients. Okay, so to kick off our podcasts on highlights from this year's EMU conference, my personal

favorite large scale EM conference, we've got my colleague at North York General Hospital, Liora Summer,

who was one of the guest experts on the E&T episode way back,

and he'll be speaking at the upcoming third annual EM cases course in Toronto on February 3rd.

Yes, save that date, February 3rd in Toronto, the EM cases course.

Anyhow, Lyme disease has spilled over from the United States into Canada in the last few years,

and so I thought it timely that we have an update online.

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.

My name's Leor Sommer. I'm a community emergency physician in the Toronto area.

And like you, when I go into work, I go in to see patients, I go into my clinical duties, but some days,

I don't know if you guys feel like this,

I feel like I'm not necessarily wandering into a hospital,

but it feels a little bit more like wandering into the front lines

because there are a lot of similarities between these soldiers in World War I and us.

We work in a very harrowing environment. It's crowded. It's unpredictable. There's limited

amount of space. We are just taking care of people wherever we can. And sometimes we even need

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