11/10/24

The Healthy Matters Podcast

S04_E02 - Dr. Thomas Wyatt and the Hospital's Front Door (Open 24/7/365)

It can be said that the emergency department is the front door between a community and healthcare - that never closes.  Within it, there's an immense team of providers working together to attend to anyone and everyone who comes in through the door - every hour of every day.  Safe to say, it's an intensely busy place with no two days ever being the same.

Hennepin County Medical Center is a Level I Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center and safety net hospital, which means it's equipped to tackle the full gamma of healthcare issues in our community - from earaches to heart attacks.  It's an intricate organization with a lot of moving pieces and a new, unique leader at the top, Dr. Thomas Wyatt (MD, FACEP).  Dr. Wyatt is one of the first tribally enrolled American Indians (Shawnee/Quapaw) to chair an academic emergency department in the United States and in Episode 2 he'll discuss the importance of this role, what life is like inside and outside of the emergency department, and the many challenges facing these departments across the country.  This is an excellent chance to get an inside view of an essential piece of the healthcare puzzle and to get to know a great figure in medicine.  We hope you'll join us.

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