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Episode 68: Transgender Awareness with Taylor Sprecher and Matt Streger

Episode 68: Transgender Awareness with Taylor Sprecher and Matt Streger

Daniel Schwester
Interview, Health and Safety, Medicine

The transgender population is a part of your patient population, and we all need to know how to assess and communicate therapeutically with our trans patients.

Matt Streger introduces us to Taylor Sprecher, a trans man and EMT who has taken the lead in trying to educate clinicians about trans patients, and some clinical pearls for us to utilize.

Did you know that almost one in FOUR trans people avoid seeking out health care because of their fear of how they’ll be treated? Or that trans teens have a significantly higher rate of suicide attempts? Do you know how to address your trans patients’ needs?

Read the stats here:

https://transequality.org/issues/us-trans-survey

Taylor’s webpage, which is a treasure trove of resources:

https://911transedu.com

Streger and Keavney is one of the pre-eminent EMS law firms in the USA, and a good friend of the show. Check them out at:

https://keavneystreger.com

https://emsaegis.com

Episode 64: Ketamine and Dunning-Kruger

Episode 64: Ketamine and Dunning-Kruger

Daniel Schwester
Drugs, Controversy

In the FOAMed world, nothing is more loved than ketamine. There have been multiple podcasts and talks about the drug, and it’s acquired a mythic status on the Internet med ed word.

But is what we think we know causing problems? Is the promise of ketamine as a drug the does it all lull us, and especially new clinicians, into a false sense of security? Has FOAMed put us on the wrong side of the Dunning-Kruger curve?