What is the best thing about being an emergency physician?
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ACEP Now: Vol 43 – No 10 – October 2024REP. MCCORMICK: You get to see people on the worst day of their lives and have real influence. If you want to pick a ministry where you’re going to make a difference to somebody, see them on their worst day, people will actually listen to you, and you may have a positive effect on their life.
DR. PECK: I go back to the skills that it gives. It’s amazing, like being able to be calm and teach a resident while someone’s actively coding in front of you. You don’t get that from other places, maybe the military.
DR. SHAH: No matter who you are, where you come from, what your problem is, we will be there for you.
If emergency medicine didn’t exist, what specialty would you have chosen?
REP. MCCORMICK: I really love pediatrics, I love working with kids.
DR. PECK: I went to Haiti for a year during Medical School, went to school at NYU and took a year off living in Haiti and did a year of what could be considered tropical third-world medicine. So, if not emergency medicine, I think the idea of developing world medicine.
DR. SHAH: Wow. What a question. I probably would have done orthopedic surgery.
What do you think about artificial intelligence (AI)? Is it going to make medicine better or worse?
REP. MCCORMICK: It has the potential to do both. I hope it’ll make it better, I hope it’ll make billing better.
DR. PECK: Worse before it gets better, I think, is the answer.
DR. SHAH: I don’t know, but I would say, with any new technology, it opens up opportunity and a possibility for abuse as well.
Who do you have for the Major League Baseball World Series this year?
REP. MCCORMICK: Baseball’s a hard one with me, if the Braves aren’t doing well, I’m kind of out. So I’ll stick to rugby.
DR. PECK: That’s a tough one for me because I’m from the Midwest and lived on the East Coast. And I have some baseball connections. I’ll stick with NL East vs. AL Central.
DR. SHAH: I don’t know. I’m a Chicago Bears fan and an NFL guy. I’m not into baseball that much. That’s my honest to goodness answer.
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