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Eggsactly What I Needed
A good laugh about 100,000 stolen eggs
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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5 Pioneering Women Behind the Drape
Trailblazing, innovating, and transforming patient care—meet the living women in anesthesiology who changed the profession.
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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Breaking from Chronic Stress of Doctoring
Taking much needed time away from the often unrelenting stress of caring for critically ill kids
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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Could Anesthesia-Induced Dreaming Treat PTSD?
Novel therapies are needed for deep trauma
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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Hurricane Helene Stole Your IV Fluids
A fragile supply chain puts everyone at risk
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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🔥 Burn it down (but ethically)
Lyz Lenz burned her wedding dress and ended her marriage. Getting to the conversation about her scorched marriage was worth all the trouble.
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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Ethical Challenges & Healthcare Inequities
A long, unhurried conversation with Jack Hopkins about being a bioethicist and anesthesiologist
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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Just make it easy...
On setbacks, annoyances, and reviewing the academic year
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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The Retrievals, Episode 5: The Outcomes
Episode 5 reveals how Yale’s IVF clinic prioritized live births over patient trauma. What health outcomes should actually matter in reproductive care?
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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Sorry I've been gone & I miss you!
Busy-ness of Academic Fall + Global News Depression
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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The Retrievals, Episode 4: The Clinic
This is not about one nurse who diverted medications
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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The Retrievals, Episode 3: The Sentence
A Yale nurse stole fentanyl meant for IVF patients. Episode 3 explores her sentence—and what justice looks like for victims, mothers, and medicine.
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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The Retrievals, Episode 2: The Nurse
A Yale nurse stole fentanyl meant for women undergoing IVF. Episode 2 of The Retrievals reveals the chilling betrayal—and the hidden epidemic of…
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
The Retrievals, Episode 1: The Patients
Why were IVF patients at Yale left in pain during egg retrieval? An anesthesiologist unpacks The Retrievals podcast and its revelations about women's…
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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Mourning Physostigmine
Indulge me as I mourn the loss of physostigmine and nerd out on a really, really cool ancient botanical drug.
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA
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