Fighting with Emergency Medicine colleagues is stupid. Learn how EM doctors think and avoid the petty infighting with tips from Dr. Scott Weingart, MD FCCM FUCEM DipHTFU, host of the EMCrit podcast, Clinical Associate Professor and Chief, Division of Emergency Critical Care at Stony Brook Hospital, NY. We discuss decision making, how to avoid anchoring bias, the devil of the gaps, why the elderly always get admitted, how to build relationships with the ED, and Scott’s pet peeves. Full show notes available at http://thecurbsiders.com/podcast Join our mailing list and receive a PDF copy of our show notes every Monday. Rate us on iTunes, recommend a guest or topic and give feedback at thecurbsiders@gmail.com. Time Stamps 00:00 Intro 01:10 Picks of the week 05:28 Guest bio 07:00 Getting to know our guest 12:00 Do EM and IM docs hate each other? 14:04 Where conflicts arise. 17:05 System 1 versus system 2 thinking 20:19 When the patient doesn’t match the story 23:55 Why does every 85 year old get admitted? 26:05 Transitions of care: form ED to medical ward 32:08 Is face-to-face signoff only needed for sick patients? 36:28 The devil in the gaps 41:03 Scott’s beer recommendation 42:17 BP cutoff for discharge home 43:44 Scott’s biggest pet peeve with primary care 45:04 How to make friends and collaborate with your EM colleagues 47:14 Take home points 50:35 Outro Tags: emergency, department, room, em, ed, im, conflict, devil, gaps, post-test, probability, illness, serious, system, one, bias, heuristic, assistant, care, education, doctor, family, foam, foamed, health, hospitalist, hospital, internal, internist, nurse, meded, medical, medicine, practitioner, professional, primary, physician, resident, student