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When Hospital Inspectors Show Up
What's it like when The Joint Commission visits a hospital? Dr. Robin and Nurse Jill share stories about hospital accreditation inspections and the pressure they can c...
How Do You Deal With Difficult Patients?
What happens when patients get angry, refuse their medication, or make an ordinary day in healthcare anything but ordinary? Dr. Robin Dickinson and Nurse Jill, share r...
Are Code Blues Really That Scary?
What does it feel like when a patient suddenly crashes and a Code Blue is called? Dr. Robin Dickinson and Nurse Jill share their experiences with medical emergencies, ...
Why Doctors & Nurses Put Food in Their Pockets
What do doctors and nurses do when a hospital shift is so busy there’s barely time to eat? In this episode of I Want to Be a Doctor or Something, Dr. Robin Dickinson a...
What We Ate on 12–30 Hour Hospital Shifts
What do doctors and nurses actually eat when they’re working a 12-, 16-, or even 30-hour hospital shift? In this episode of I Want to Be a Doctor or Something, Dr. Rob...
The Messiest Baby Delivery of My Career
What is it actually like to deliver a baby? In this episode of I Want to Be a Doctor or Something, Dr. Robin and registered nurse Jill share their first experiences wi...
When a Patient Threatens You
What happens when a patient suddenly becomes aggressive, confused, or completely unlike themselves? In this episode of I Want to Be a Doctor or Something, registered n...
Never Have I Ever Hacked a Hospital Vending Machine
What happens when a hospital gives medical students one pair of scrubs—and makes them return them before getting another? In this episode of I Want to Be a Doctor or S...
Our Most Embarrassing Healthcare Mistakes
Even doctors and nurses make embarrassing mistakes. In this episode of I Want to Be a Doctor or Something, Dr. Robin and Nurse Jill share mistakes they made while lear...
I Passed Out at Work: The Reality of Med Training
Can you still work in healthcare if blood or medical procedures make you faint? In this episode of I Want to Be a Doctor or Something, Dr. Robin and Nurse Jill play "N...
Doctor vs Nurse: How Our Lives Looked Before Healthcare
A doctor and nurse look back at the strange paths that got them here.
18- How to Choose a Medical Specialty?
Welcome to the I want to be a doctor podcast where insider information about what it takes to become a physician is available for anyone. I'm Dr. Robin Dickinson, a bo...
17-Embryology?!?!
Today's question is from a first year medical student who asks "I'm so confused with embryology. What do I do?" As someone who is still confused with embryology, let ...
16-Manage Time
Today's question is from a college freshman who asks: How do you remember to do all the things on your calendar? I'm constantly forgetting to do something. Yeah, me to...
15- Passing Out
Today's question is from a first year medical student who asks "Did you ever pass out during a procedure?" Why yes, I did! And I'm here to tell you that you can have a...
14-What Training for Whom?
Today's question is from an 8th grader who asks what is the difference between a doctor, a nurse practitioner, a nurse, and a physician’s assistant? You are not the on...
13-Being Human
Today's question is from a number of you who asked, “Where have you been the last couple weeks? Why haven’t any new episodes dropped?” So today I’m going to talk abou...
12- How to Deal with Overwhelming Thoughts?
Today's question is from a college sophomore who asks, “How can I deal with all the thoughts that keep popping into my head? There’s so much I’m trying to figure out r...
10-Where to Do Rotation?
Today's question is from a second year medical student who is going to be starting clinical rotations in a few months and asks where should I do my surgery rotation? ...
9- Homesick at the Hospital?
Today's question is from someone who is just starting medical school in a few months who asks “Did you get homesick when you had to keep staying at the hospital all ni...
