Jellybean #17 with Derek Angus
b"Derek Angus; 15/15 on the Glasgow Conversational Scale.\\n\\nDerek is the lead author of the PROCESS trial. You may have heard him on EMCrit talking about that study. http://emcrit.org/podcasts/process-trial/\\n\\nYou may have heard that he is one of the Heavyweights invited to SMACC CHICAGO.\\n\\nSo where does he come from, how did he get here, is he the right fit for that SMACC scene and will he be singing until 3am at FOAMaoke?\\n\\nI caught up with Derek in Wellington, New Zealand at the Paul Young curated \\u201cDown with Dogma\\u201d College of Intensive Care Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting and I won\\u2019t pretend; I really like him.\\n\\nAngus is a Prince of research. Do a Pubmed search for him if you don't believe me; there are literally hundreds of papers. \\n\\nHe started out at Glasgow University. (I seem to have a thing for Glaswegians a.k.a. \\u201cWeegies\\u201d) He was aiming at neurosurgery but after his MRCP and became the first Commonwealth citizen to work for MSF back when MSF were much, much smaller.\\n\\nThis conversation was just too interesting to stop around 10 minutes as Jellybeans usually are.\\n\\nHave a listen. I think you\\u2019ll like it. \\n\\nDerek went from MSF to working with Peter Safar no less. \\n\\nFrom his early papers co-authored by Safar he has gone onto publish nearly 300 article of all shapes and sizes. These do not focus on the minutiae of some esoteric area, they seem to cover almost everything. Can you be a research generalist?\\n\\nTalking to Scott Weingart he gave a restrained epidemiologically tight representation of what the PROCESS trial tells us. Many of the questions and comments on EMCrit.org blog were focusing upon \\u201cwhat should we do with our septic patients?\\u201d My understanding of the ProCESS trial is that it tries to answer a specific question; what part of this bundle actually works. Anthony Delaneys understanding is rather more important than mine though. http://www.intensivecarenetwork.com/index.php/icn-activities/icn-podcasts/906-process-delaneys-take\\n\\nSepsis is just one small part of what he does; he has fingers in all sorts of pies from Social Justice to Disaster Management. But what I should have asked him was what he was doing when he worked at \\u201cReanimation Medicale\\u201d Hopital Cochin in Paris?\\n\\nOne of the best things that we talked about was heros, mentors and role models. Don't be afraid of these guys. \\n\\nIf you've got a hero out there at least send them an email!\\n\\nThis guy is seriously impressive; apparently you or I could be him!"