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Dr. Kwajo: Poor Metabolic Health Means Poor ICU outcomes - #59

Dr. Kwajo: Poor Metabolic Health Means Poor ICU outcomes - #59

FromStay Off My Operating Table


Dr. Kwajo: Poor Metabolic Health Means Poor ICU outcomes - #59

FromStay Off My Operating Table

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Length:
61 minutes
Released:
Oct 4, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng wants you not to end up in the ICU.An ICU doctor and a department head at the Ottawa Hospital, Dr. Kwadwo knows metabolic disease is a massive driver of poor outcomes. Studies even established the link between poor metabolic health and COVID outcomes. But what do we do to treat that? When doctors focus primarily on sick care, they hardly ask anymore why the patient landed there in the first place.And that's what we need. We have to talk about the root cause to find the solutions.The inefficiency of the healthcare system prompted him to start his podcast "Solving Healthcare" which aims to empower healthcare workers to think out of the box. There's always a way to provide better care. The patients deserve that. Maybe the needle is yet to be moved, but the message is getting there.Quick Guide:01:37 Introduction04:52 To solve our healthcare system12:08 The Canadian healthcare system16:41 The message of being metabolically healthy24:05 Is there progress in propagating the message?38:16 Personal fitness and nutrition journey44:41 The story behind Kwadcast47:38 To encourage others to think outside the box49:52 Studies inside the ICU53:57 What evidence-based medicine meansGet to know our guest:Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng is a critical care physician and researcher at the Ottawa Hospital in Canada. He hosts Solving Healthcare podcast that focuses on improving healthcare delivery.“You gotta be able to look yourself in the mirror, like, your compass for making decisions is in your values. And my values are always personally along do the right thing. Justice. Be courageous. And I don't feel it felt the same. We both have taken heat in different ways. And yeah, but at the end of the day, I can honestly say we both can look at yourselves in the mirror and say we were doing our best.”Connect with him:Twitter: https://twitter.com/kwadcastTiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kwadcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/kwadcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLmdmYzLnJeAFPufDy1ti8wWebsite: drkwadwo.caOther sites mentioned on the show:Virta Health (reverse type 2 diabetes): https://www.virtahealth.com/Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners: https://thesmhp.org/Episode snippets:8:41 - 9:50 To increase awareness about the issues14:21 - 15:13 Making an impact in a four-year cycle12:24 - 13:08 The goal is to make the patients healthy19:29 - 19:59 Give less pro-inflammatory food to the patients37:45 - 38:14 The compass in making decisions is your values43:52 - 44:40 What works for one may not work for the other45:12 - 46:15 How doing a podcast has been life-changing48:18 - 49:52 Approach to thinking outside the boxConnect with Dr. Ovadia:TwitteriFixHearts WebsiteStay Off My Operating Table WebsiteAmazon Theme Song : Rage AgainstWritten & Performed by Logan Gritton & Colin Gailey(c) 2016 Mercury Retro RecordingsProduced by 38atoms & Jack Heald
Released:
Oct 4, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

He was a morbidly obese heart surgeon. Through high school, college, med school and surgical training, he followed the U.S. dietary guidelines for both diet and exercise. Yet nothing he did could keep the weight off. Each day in the operating theater he would split open the chests of people just like himself. He was heading for the operating table and knew he had to find solutions that worked. In 2016, he finally found a way to lose 100 pounds and keep it off. Now - in addition to doing heart surgery - he helps people just like himself get healthy, lose the weight and keep it off. Dr. Philip Ovadia is now a rebel M.D. working to keep people OFF his operating table.