California Emergency Physicians Discuss "The Pitt" Effect on KQED's Forum
Three California emergency physicians, including Christopher Colwell, MD, vice chair and chief of Emergency Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, join KQED's Forum radio show to discuss how the HBO series has heightened public awareness of their daily work and sparked conversations about the challenges emergency health care workers face.
Listen to the episode via KQED, the Bay Area’s NPR member station
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