Mastering Intensive Care: 91 - Peter Brindley

Sep 3, 2024

My guest in this episode is Dr Peter Brindley, an intensivist in
Edmonton, Canada.

Peter is a tenured full Professor of Critical Care Medicine,
Anesthesiology, and Medical Ethics, with over 150 peer-reviewed
manuscripts, over 30 book chapters, and over 100 other articles,
including regular opinion pieces for the British Medical Journal.
He has written one book and co-hosts a podcast (The Critical Care Commute). He has presented to
audiences in 15 countries during appoximately 650 invited
presentations, 50 plenaries and 10 named lectures. He is convinced
happiness comes from finding meaning and showing gratitude. He is
proudest of two feral kids, neither of whom give a hoot about his
work-related achievements.

Peter was previously featured in episode 15 as well as in the
Persevering Through A Pandemic
series from 2021. These episodes are well worth listening to.
Given he was in Australia for the Annual Scientific Meeting of the
CICM, I thought I had to have him on the show again.

In this episode, Peter talks about why he’s a doctor and why he
stays working where he does, before touching on a variety of topics
including clinical leadership, imposter syndrome, the differing
skills of the people making up our teams, efficiency, understanding
when patients are dying, podcasting, wellbeing and parting
advice.

Thank you for listening to Dr Peter Brindley.

Andrew Davies

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About the Mastering Intensive Care podcast: The podcast aims to
inspire and empower you, through conversations about the human side
of Intensive Care, to bring your best self to work, with a focus on
compassion, collaboration and personal wellbeing.

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Relevant links

Peter Brindley, MD, FRCPC (Canada),
FRCP (Lond), FRCP (Edin)

Critical Care Commute podcast

Opinion piece “Diagnosing dying: is it time
for doctors to write ‘dying certificates’?” (by Peter Brindley &
Matt Morgan)

Mastering Intensive Care
podcast

Mastering Intensive Care podcast –
Episode 15 with Peter Brindley

Mastering Intensive Care podcast – Persevering Through A Pandemic –
Series Trailer

Mastering Intensive Care podcast – Persevering Through A Pandemic –
1 – Sick Of COVID

Mastering Intensive Care podcast – Persevering Through A Pandemic –
2 – It Was Inconceivable

Mastering Intensive Care podcast – Persevering Through A Pandemic –
3 – Ultramarathon

Mastering Intensive Care podcast – Persevering Through A Pandemic
– 4
– Best & Worst Year