Emergency medicine, talked through at bedside speed.
EM Over Easy treats emergency medicine as both a clinical craft and a demanding workplace culture. Its conversations move from ICU rotations and physical exams to conflict, burnout, AI stereotypes, and the small habits that keep patients and coworkers safer.
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EM Over Easy is an emergency medicine podcast with a distinctly lived-in feel. The conversations sound like clinicians talking after a shift, with enough joking to keep the room loose and enough specificity to make the teaching useful. Its focus is broader than procedures and diagnoses. The show cares about what makes a high-functioning emergency physician when the waiting room is full, the team is tired, and the patient in front of them needs both care and communication. Recent episodes compare AI’s picture of emergency medicine with the panel’s own experience, separating the television version of the specialty from the work of stabilization and first-contact decision-making. The speakers talk about the best parts of EM without flattening the hard ones. They also name the harder terrain: compassion fatigue, workplace violence, moral injury, crowded departments, and the burden of feeling responsible for staff safety. That seriousness is balanced by a practical streak. Advice is often framed as something to do on the next shift, not a theory to admire later. Med Student Over Easy episodes give learners a clear on-ramp into the field. Patricia Capone and Caitlin Bowers guide conversations on ICU rotations, discharge instructions, and physical exams, with guests explaining what students can learn by watching closely, asking better questions, and understanding which details matter at the bedside. The clinical teaching is refreshingly concrete. Ventilators, vasopressors, shock states, chest tubes, central lines, abdominal exams, ear exams, and outpatient follow-up all appear as parts of real decision-making rather than isolated checklist items. The show is also alert to culture. Episodes on conflict and struggling coworkers treat communication as a core safety skill, not a soft extra. It can be repetitive in a useful way, circling back until the point lands. For emergency medicine clinicians, trainees, and adjacent health professionals, EM Over Easy offers a candid, collegial look at the medicine and the people doing it.
Made for: Best for emergency medicine clinicians, residents, medical students, and health professionals who want practical discussion of ED work beyond textbook answers. It especially suits listeners who like clinical teaching mixed with candid talk about teamwork, conflict, and fatigue.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its blend of bedside specificity and informal panel chemistry. It treats communication, learner supervision, staff safety, and follow-through as core emergency medicine skills alongside procedures and stabilization.
An Emergency Medicine Podcast. Started over breakfast in 2016, where four friends (Drew, Tanner, John and Andy) along with the occasional guest talk about all things emergency medicine with a focus on #MoreThanMedicine conversations cover the things you don't learn in medical school and residency, but need to know to be a high functioning Doc. Visit our website www.emovereasy.com for more details.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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A practical ICU orientation for EM-bound students, centered on bedside learning, procedures, shock, and subtle physiologic changes.
For an EM-bound medical student, this ICU conversation frames critical care as a place where small bedside changes can matter. Patricia Capone and Caitlin Bowers talk with Tim Montreef and Jacob Smith about how a student can move from the initial shock of the unit and basic…
A candid panel weighs AI's grim view of emergency medicine against the risks and emotions clinicians know firsthand.
EM Over Easy turns an AI ranking of emergency medicine's worst features into a grounded panel discussion about what clinicians recognize from daily practice. Compassion fatigue and workplace violence do not sit as abstract categories for long.
A bare AI prompt becomes a candid test of emergency medicine's first-ten-minutes strengths and procedural limits.
EM Over Easy turns a simple AI prompt into a useful stress test: name the five best and five worst parts of emergency medicine. The hosts come in with healthy skepticism, expecting the answer might lean on television medicine or student-forum shorthand, and the episode works…
A grounded discussion of de-escalation, early contact, and follow-through in tense emergency-department encounters.
Emergency-department conflict is framed as a routine pressure, not a rare spike around flu season or a crowded local event. Andy, Drew, and John focus on the basics that still matter when tension is part of the shift: getting into the room early, naming the wait before…
A practical conversation about focusing the ED exam without shortchanging the skills students still need to build.
Emergency medicine's physical exam sits in a useful tension here: students are taught full specialist techniques, while the ED often calls for a focused exam shaped by the complaint and by how sick the patient appears.
A focused look at how prescription pricing can reach emergency care.
Prescription pricing becomes an emergency-medicine issue when inexpensive generics can still reach employers as far larger bills. Mark Cuban frames the problem as a system made hard to see by PBMs, benefits consultants, and insurance companies, then anchors it in his own…
Where the setbacks become the whole conversation.
Forgiveness practice, one sentence at a time.
On EM Over Easy, Tanner Grunowski frames emergency-department patient experience as the journey of care, not simply the patient’s satisfaction with the outcome.
Mark Cuban joins EM Over Easy to discuss his company Cost Plus Drugs, which aims to lower prescription drug prices through transparency.
Hosts introduce guest Cole Jennette, a fitness and personal growth coach, to discuss communication and well-being.
Four male podcast hosts discuss Men's Health Month, focusing on mental health and why they've avoided the topic for nine years.
A rewind episode where med student hosts discuss top emergency medicine resources with expert guests.
Drew challenges the idea of gestalt, arguing that clinicians who say "my gestalt says we should just get the CTPE" are often working from Wells and PERC rather than true type 1 thinking.
Patricia Capone and Caitlin Bowers talk at ACOEP with EM and critical care physicians Tim Montreef of the University of Miami Miami Transplant Institute and Jacob Smith of Virginia Tech Carilion about what EM-bound medical students should do in the ICU.
EM Over Easy's "Worst of EM: Did AI get it right?" has John, Andy, Drew, and Tanner grading AI's five worst parts of emergency medicine in reverse order.
EM over Easy's Andy, Drew Tanner, and John spend the episode grading Gemini AI's list of the five best parts of emergency medicine.
EM Over Easy's "Mastering Conflict In the ED" centers on why Andy Little, Drew, and John think emergency-department de-escalation now feels like a daily job.
Andy Lillard and John Casey discuss how to support a struggling coworker in emergency medicine, focusing on the challenges of physician identity and work-life balance.
Patricia Capone, Caitlin Bowers, and Drew Kennel focus on how emergency medicine clinicians choose a focused physical exam, including when to do a head-to-toe exam and when to narrow to one body system.
The hosts of the Over Easy podcast kick off their annual holiday gift guide episode, discussing their holiday spirit and pet peeves about early Christmas decorations.
Medical educators discuss the importance of proper discharge instructions for med students transitioning to interns.