Jellybean 085 with Victoria Stephen of BadEM

LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blogThe quadruple burden of disease in South Africa with Victoria Stephen.You don’t want a triple burden never mind a quadruple burden.Trauma, Lifestyle Diseases, Communicable Disease, peri-natal morbidity and mortalityIt’s not all trauma in South Africa, it’s worse than that. The Rainbow nation unfortunately gets a rainbow of pathology too. Which makes for challenging work and interesting medicine. It means that South Africa is a bit different and that’s where www.BadEM.co.za comes in.This is the 4th in a series of Jellybeans with members of the BadEM team because we love BadEM. It is the very impressive Victoria Stephen.Victoria Stephen ( @EMCardiac ) is a consultant emergency physician with a special interest in Ultrasound and Cardiac stuff. She works in a new hospital named after the last anti-apartheid activist that was sentenced to death under the brutal failing regime, Thelle Mogoerane. Gone. Not forgotten.Of course like all of us she had to work hard to develop her talents and Victoria credits LITFL and Steve Smiths ECG blog with improving her ECG skills. She has benefited from #FOAMed and she is giving back. BadEM is working hard to try to create a new flavour of #FOAMed for their world, which is just not the same as Manchester or Melbourne. That said there is plenty of good will and support for BadEM all across th...
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