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 Introduction
04:52 To solve our healthcare system
12:08 The Canadian healthcare system
16:41 The message of being metabolically healthy
24:05 Is there progress in propagating the message?
38:16 Personal fitness and nutrition journey
44:41 The story behind Kwadcast
47:38 To encourage others to think outside the box
49:52 Studies inside the ICU
53:57 What evidence-based medicine means
Get 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/kwadcast
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kwadcast
Instagram: https://instagram.com/kwadcast
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLmdmYzLnJeAFPufDy1ti8w
Website: drkwadwo.ca
Other 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 issues
14:21 - 15:13 Making an impact in a four-year cycle
12:24 - 13:08 The goal is to make the patients healthy
19:29 - 19:5
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Get Dr. Ovadia's book Stay Off My Operating Table on Amazon.
Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
visit Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health
visit Jack Heald's website: CultYourBrand.com
Theme Song : Rage Against
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