Healthcare Musings
This is the official podcast and blog of Hesham A. Hassaballa, MD, a NY Times-featured Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician, Author, and Healthcare Executive. Healthcare Musings discusses important issues in Critical Care, Healthcare, and Medicine in general.
Recent Episodes
Americans Are Drinking Less: That’s Amazing News!
Gallup’s recent poll showed that Americans are drinking alcohol at the lowest rate ever. This is something that should be celebrated. Poll Link: https://news.gallup.com/poll/693362/drinking-rate-new-low-alcohol-concerns-surge...
What Doctors Can Do That AI Cannot
Artificial Intelligence can’t get get tired. Artificial Intelligence can’t get burned out. Artificial Intelligence can do a lot. There are things, however, that Doctors do that AI can’t.
Limiting Student Loans: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
Limiting student loans for professional schools is so horribly shortsighted. Dr. Hassaballa explains why.
AI Has Eliminated Your Job As A Radiologist, Right?: My Conversation …
Not too long ago, some predicted that Artificial Intelligence will render Radiologists obsolete. So, I sat down with Dr. Safwan Halabi, Associate Professor of Radiology at Northwestern University and Vice-Chair of Imaging Inf...
The Freedom Fighters of Medicine
On July 1, new doctors start their residency. On July 4, our nation celebrates its independence. This is fitting because, truly, we in the medical field are fighting for the freedom of our patients.
Is a Mean Arterial Pressure of 65 Harmful in Septic Shock?
Typically, we titrate Vascopressors to a mean arterial pressure of 65. Does this harm patient with septic shock? Dr. Hassabolus goes over the literature.
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Recent Blog Posts
Sleep in the ICU: What Do The Guidelines Say?
Sleep, I often say, is the elusive treasure of a hospital stay. Indeed, when hospitalized, there are many things that need to be done to the patient: diagnostic tests, laboratory studies, multiple visits from multiple clinicians, to name a few. So, …
The Best Answer to "Why Medicine" I Have Ever Heard
“Why Medicine?” Why go into a career that takes several years - and costs hundreds of thousands of dollars - to complete? And, it is still a very demanding job at the end of that long, expensive path. So, why do it? Many, including mys…
Sleep in the ICU: The Classic Experiments
In the classic sleep deprivation experiments, two rats were placed on a disk that can rotate over water. They had as much food and drink as they wanted, and if the experimental rat fell asleep or entered a prohibited sleep stage, the disk started to…