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EM Clerkship

Should I go into EM? – Part 1

EM Clerkship

Zack Olson, MD ; Mike Estephan, MD ; Maddie Watts, MD

Education, Science, Life Sciences, Courses, Health & Fitness, Medicine

5795 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The future of emergency medicine seems bleak. Listen to Zack’s perspective on the future of our beloved specialty in part one of this two-part series.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody. This is Zach Olson and thank you for downloading this episode of the EM Clerkship

0:05.9

podcast. This episode is sponsored by Pearson Rabbit's Insurance. Stephanie Pearson at Pearson

0:11.1

Ravits is my personal disability and life insurance agent. The reason that I trust her is because she

0:17.9

was a physician just like me, just like you, who went through med school,

0:23.2

went through all of her training, was actually at the peak of her career.

0:27.2

And tragedy struck and she got disabled.

0:30.0

In her employer's policy and workman's comp, all these things, they weren't there for her.

0:36.8

She went through so much hassle that she decided

0:40.1

she was going to go and start selling disability insurance so that the same thing doesn't happen to you.

0:46.5

When you set up a call to talk to her on the phone, I'm sure she will tell you the whole story if you

0:51.4

ask, but you want a disability insurance agent that you can trust,

0:56.6

specifically somebody who's been there and is there to advocate for you.

1:01.8

Go to www.personravitz.com.

1:05.5

Fill out some contact information, set up a call.

1:07.9

You want to be buying this stuff, probably around residency.

1:11.5

You can call them any time, and they'll tell you the right time to buy for your specific scenario now on to our episode

1:17.1

i've been getting a lot of emails over the last year or so uh it's got triggered by the whole

1:24.5

workforce emergency medicine what is the future of emergency medicine, all that stuff.

1:28.5

More or less, all these emails say the same thing.

1:30.9

Zach, what do you think?

1:32.7

Should I still go into emergency medicine?

1:34.7

I don't think I've responded to any of these emails, maybe one or two, but the issue is I wasn't really quite sure what to say.

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