The Visible Voices

Playing Tetris During #COVID19: Serious Games and Gamification

Resa speaks with Medical Educators and Emergency Medicine Drs. Teresa Chan and Megan Stobart-Gallagher.  What are Serious Games?  How do those differ from using Game Mechanics in your medical education teaching?  The literature supports that adults like to play and games are effective.  They discuss Jane McGonigal, the power of games and highlight examples, such as Gridlocked, a game that could allow future doctors to learn systems approaches to patient management in a safe, low stakes environment., and Empiric, the antimicrobial card game designed for education for medical professionals. 

Danielle Ofri MD Phd, Writing, and When We Do Harm

Resa speaks with Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, a clinical professor of medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. She has worked at Bellevue Hospital for decades. They discuss writing and finding one's voice through writing  Dr. Ofri recently released When We Do Harm. She is the author of many books and has regular contributions in Slate, New York Times, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Lancet.. They discuss her June 2019 New York Times OpEd piece The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses One resource seems infinite and free: the professionalism of caregivers. Listen to Dr. Ofri's TEDMED talk. 

Emily Silverman Sayantani DasGupta Reasons COVID19 is Inciting Narrative Violence

Thursday 09 April 2020: COVID19 series Resa speaks with Dr. Emily Silverman creator and host for the Nocturnists. In March 2020, she and her team put out a call for people who are interested in keeping an “audio diary” about their experience working on the front lines of the COVID19 pandemic. Dr. Sayantani DasGupta is a Pediatrician by training, a subject matter expert in Narrative Medicine, and a NYTimes best selling author of a children's book series: Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond (photo credit Chris X. Carroll). Episode image with permissions quiles_artworks

Is Ultrasound Useful in COVID19? International Experts Discuss

Sunday 05 April 2020: COVID19 series Resa speaks with doctors in the USA, Europe, and Australia to understand the how Point-of-Care Ultrasound or ultrasound used at the patient bedside may play a role in triage, diagnosis, and/or ongoing management of patients. Dr. Daniel Lichtenstein is a Critical Care and Intensivist in Paris, France. He is credited as one of the first physicians to use ultrasound in the care of critical patients. Dr. Rachel Liu is an Emergency Physician at Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, USA. Dr. Kylie Baker is an Emergency physician in Brisbane, Australia. Dr. Cian McDermott is an Emergency physician in Dublin, Ireland. 

How is COVID19? Reports of Geneva, London, and Philadelphia

Monday 16 March 2020: Philadelphia has ordered all nonessential businesses and government operations to close by Monday afternoon as the city grapples with the coronavirus pandemic. Mayor Jim Kenney said the closures should happen by Monday at 5 p.m. The closures are expected to last through at least March 27, though that time may be extended. The city now has nine diagnosed cases of the new coronavirus, health officials said at a Monday afternoon news conference. COVID19 series Resa speaks with doctors in the USA and Europe to understand the preparation and current work environments in 3 hospitals each in a different major city. Dr. Eva Niyibizi is an Emergency physician and Internal Medicine specialist and Trauma specialist in Geneva Switzerland. *She diagnosed the first patient case of COVID19 in the city. Dr. Jamie Garfield is a Pulmonary and Critical Care physician at the Temple Lung Center in Philadelphia PA, USA. Dr. Segun Olusanya is an Intensive Care resident physician in a Cardiac Hospital in London.