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57: What Does a Pulm Critical Care Medicine Doc Do?

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Session 57 Dr. Tom Bice is an academic Pulm Critical Care physician in North Carolina. We talk about his specialty and what you should be doing if you're interested in it. Tom has been out of fellowship for four years now. By the way, check out all our other podcasts on the MedEd Media Network. [01:03] His Interest in Critical Care Medicine Not being able to decide on one topic, Tom knew he wanted to do a little bit of everything. And he has mild to moderate ADD. He also considered Emergency Medicine early on but he found he didn't enjoy people showing up at 3 am with significantly non-emergent problems. So when he focused more on internal medicine, he was doing his rotations in surgery and medicine. Then he realized that all of the patients and disease processes that were cool ended up in the ICU. What cemented his decision was his OB rotation with a young 26-year-old lade with sickle cell anemia came in at 29 weeks and went to the emergency section. She ended up in the unit for several days and intubated