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Who
Brandon Morshedi, MD, DPT, EMT-P, FACEP, FAEMS, is an emergency medicine and EMS physician throughout Arkansas and Texas. Originally from Arkansas, he started his career in EMS in 2001 and worked as a firefighter, EMT, and eventually a paramedic, working a combined 12 years on a front-line 911 ambulance.
What do PT’s need to know about physicians?
“Well, I obviously can’t speak for all physicians, but here’s my best shot. We are overworked, task saturated, juggling 100 flaming swords in the air at the same time, battling multiple interruptions and frequent task-switching, signing EKG’s, answering phones, talking to consultants, talking to families, arguing with consultants and families, talking to EMS, constantly advocating for our patients in a broken system, always trying to figure out who is dying the fastest and needs us now, and worrying about the ones we’ve discharged already as well as the ones sitting out in the waiting room who we haven’t even been able to see yet…all while being told our metrics aren’t good enough, our charts aren’t detailed enough, and we aren’t seeing enough patients or seeing them fast enough. It’s exhausting.”
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Episode Takeaways
- Best strategies to communicate with MDs in the ED
- Ways to demonstrate your value to the medical team in the ED
- Biggest ways PTs can contribute in the ED
- How EBP can win over an MD
“I believe that the value of a PT is in your time and touch.”
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What would you say to an ED considering adding PTs to their team?
Do it!
