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Breaking from Chronic Stress of Doctoring
Taking much needed time away from the often unrelenting stress of caring for critically ill kids
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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Could Anesthesia-Induced Dreaming Treat PTSD?
Novel therapies are needed for deep trauma
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
Hurricane Helene Stole Your IV Fluids
A fragile supply chain puts everyone at risk
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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🔥 Burn it down (but ethically)
Lyz Lenz burned her wedding dress and ended her marriage. Getting to the conversation about her scorched marriage was worth all the trouble.
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
Ethical Challenges & Healthcare Inequities
A long, unhurried conversation with Jack Hopkins about being a bioethicist and anesthesiologist
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
Just make it easy...
On setbacks, annoyances, and reviewing the academic year
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
Sorry I've been gone & I miss you!
Busy-ness of Academic Fall + Global News Depression
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
The Retrievals, Episode 2: The Nurse
When a nurse swapped fentanyl for salt water, "It's like watching a horror reel."
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
The Retrievals, Episode 1: The Patients
A Serial Podcast about women's pain, anesthesia & ethical care
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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Mourning Physostigmine
Indulge me as I mourn the loss of physostigmine and nerd out on a really, really cool ancient botanical drug.
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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