Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng on Avoiding the ICU and Racism in Medicine PH 168

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng is a palliative care & intensive care doctor based in Ottawa, Canada. As a physician treating critically ill patients, he brings an enthusiasm and passion to the idea of keeping patients out of the hospital in the first place by using lifestyle to prevent disease. On his podcast, Solving Healthcare, Dr. Kyeremanteng features interviews and discussions on the topic of improving healthcare delivery. He is also the founder of the Resource Optimization Network, a multidisciplinary research group working to reduce health spending, make the ICU more efficient, and improve access to palliative care services. Dr. Kyeremanteng was one of only two Black students in his medical school class, and as one of the few Black doctors practicing in his hospital today, he is keenly aware of the demographic imbalance in medicine and the resulting challenges Black individuals must overcome to have the same opportunities as their peers. He’s recently launched a healthcare mentorship program to help Black students bridge this gap. Dr. Kyermanteng’s role in the ICU has put him at the forefront of caring for acutely ill COVID-19 patients, and his experience as a palliative doctor gives him a unique perspective on the challenges facing these patients and their families. I was excited to hear from Dr. Kyeremanteng on all of these hot topics, and more. We covered a lot of ground in the conversation, from how intensive care medicine and palliative care medicine go hand-in-hand, to the lessons he’s learned from spending time with patients near the end of their lives, to what actions we can start taking now to be anti-racist.

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0:00.0	as you're learn more and more about disease,
0:05.0	prevention is the key man.
0:07.7	Like why get sick in the first place?
0:10.3	Don't get sick.
0:11.6	Don't come, you know what I mean? Like why are we going to wait till your end stage or as sick as a dog before we try and provide you with help? Like no, let's be smarter with our minds, resources, and approaches.
0:26.0	Like it just doesn't make sense when you think about it really.
0:28.3	Like you all would, like a lot of time we're just putting band-aids on shit, like you know what I mean?
0:32.1	Like let's get to the root cause and really stop you from entering the door.
0:39.0	Hello and
0:44.3	Welcome to Pursuing Health. I'm Dr. Julie Fushe, family physician and former cross-pit games athlete.
0:49.7	Here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the gap between fitness and medicine and support your journey toward your healthiest self.
0:58.0	Thank you so much for joining me. Now let's get started with this week's episode.
1:03.0	All right guys in in this episode, I sit down with Dr. Quajo Care Mantang, a pallid of care and intensive care physician, based in Ottawa, Canada.
1:11.0	He has a ton of energy and passion which you will certainly see come
1:14.9	through in this conversation. And although Dr. Caremanteing treats critically ill
1:18.8	patients day-to-day in the ICU, he also has a great enthusiasm for keeping patients out of the hospital in the first place by using lifestyle to prevent disease and he talks about a lot of these topics on his own podcast solving health care.
1:31.0	He's also the founder of the Resource Optimization Network, a
1:33.9	multidisciplinary research group working to reduce health spending, make the
1:37.9	ICU more efficient, and improve access to palliative care services.
1:41.1	Dr. Care Manting's role in the ICU has put him at the forefront
1:44.7	of caring for acutely ill COVID-19 patients this year and his experience as a palliative
1:49.4	doctor over the years gives him a very unique perspective on the challenges facing patients and their families at the end of life.
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