Emergency medicine is a humbling discipline where professionals must manage chaotic situations with limited resources and remain open to learning from others.

“But with an emergency physician, you are humbled every single day. Even if you are like got 40 years of experience, you might see something in the ER that you've never seen before. And it might be a junior doctor that might spot it and you won't because as an ER doctor, you have to know a little abo”

Emergency medicine is inherently designed to manage disasters rather than maintaining a standard of normality.

“it's not like we run on the assumption of of normality you know we we are always planning for the worst-case scenario and so we're we're prepared for disasters”

He thinks that having an emergency responder who can maintain a sense of humor, such as being interested in a scalp injury, is necessary for the profession.

“We need people who are like, "Oo, scalp. This is interesting." That's the vibe you need.”