Dogma Downed!

The 2013 CICM ASM was a blast, as you would expect given the glorious theme of ‘Down with Dogma: Challenging the Fundamentals of Critical Care’. I got to play a bit part, challenging the dogma that you have to be a proper intensivist to speak at the ASM…. I had the opportunity to talk about ‘Toxicological Myths and Half-Truths’ as well as ‘Social Media and the Internet: The Future of Medical Education’. No masked wrestlers ran onto stage to body slam me, so the talks must have gone better than anticipated. I’ve collected resources for the talks here. I may try to make FOAM versions of the talks to go online if anyone is interested. Highlights for me were: The recurring theme of ‘The Rise and Fall of the Parachute’ which turned out to be a major unintended feature of the ASM. The sharp witted @expensivecare calls the parachute slide the Godwin’s Law of Evidence-based Medicine. After hearing that I had to add an extra three parachute photos into my second talk… David certaintly wins the award for Tweeter of the conference! Brad Wibrow taking the gold at the awards ceremony was fantastic to see — good on ya mate. Stephen Streat — probably the first intensivist I ever encountered, thanks to the lecture halls of Auckland medical school — railed on about ‘Wiki-truth‘ and ‘gizmo idolatry‘. Surprisingly, I agree with him — though the rest of the conference showed that the medical...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tags: Featured Health Intensive Care Twitter 2013 ASM CICM down with dogma paul young wellington Source Type: blogs