Feb 9, 2020
In this episode of the Mastering Intensive Care podcast we replay a previous episode which featured Deborah Cook (broadcast originally as episode 46).
Deborah is an intensivist at St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton and Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Academic Chair of Critical Care at McMaster University. Deborah has received numerous awards for her practice, teaching, mentoring and research, including an Officer of the Order of Canada. She is one of the evidence-based medicine pioneers, and has cultivated and led countless large international investigator-initiated intensive care research studies, mostly with the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group, which she was a Founder of, and which now awards the Deborah J. Cook Mentoring Award to recognise the huge number of people she has mentored around the planet.
In this replayed interview from 2019, Deborah talks about the rekindling of her early career desire to study and practice better end of life care to improve the quality of the dying experience for patients and their families, with the Three Wishes project. She also gives her wise and experienced thoughts on the keys to success in research, ward rounds, family involvement in the ICU, her expectations as an ICU consultant, communication, note-writing, her own self-care and love for family, and some valuable closing career tips.
I invite you to listen to this replay episode with Deborah Cook.
Andrew Davies
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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast is aimed to inspire and empower you to bring your best self to the intensive care unit, through conversations with thought-provoking guests. The hope is you’ll glean insights to move you closer towards being the best and most human healthcare professionals you can be, so you can make the most valuable contribution to your patient’s lives.
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Links related to Deborah Cook
Links to other resources (in order of mentioning)
Canadian Critical Care Trials Group
Publication from 3 Wishes Project
Other publications from 3 Wishes Project
Book “Essentialism - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less” (by Greg McKeown)
Links related to Mastering Intensive Care podcast
Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 46 with Deborah Cook
Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 50 with Andrew Davies
Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 51 - A Recap of 2019
Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 52 with Martin Bromiley
Mastering Intensive Care podcast - Episode 53 with Paul Wischmeyer
Mastering Intensive Care podcast
Mastering Intensive Care page on Facebook
Mastering Intensive Care at Life In The Fast Lane
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