Medical School for Everyone: Emergency Medicine

These were so fascinating that I listened to the entire set of classes in two days, and have listened to them again more than once. Benaroch is pleasant to listen to and has a real talent for storytelling. On top of that, you’ll learn some useful things about medicine that could help you in an emergency or when talking to doctors (though B is careful to state very clearly that this is NOT the same as receiving actual medical training). One of my family members did in fact have an emergency medical situation after I read this and I found that I was better able to talk with the doctors and understand what they told me; in fact, the doctors commented on how good my questions were. Highly recommend.I wish the person who gave this one star would come back and fix her rating, because she says outright that she liked the courses and just objected to the pricing. Benaroch has no control over the Great Courses pricing policy, and bad reviews have an impact on his ability to be paid for his work! (I don’t know him or have any connection to him at all, I’m just indignant on his behalf.)

This is a good introduction to being or accompanying an emergency room patient. It gives clear descriptions of how ER docs evaluate and triage cases, select treatment options and get the patient ready to go home or to full hospital care depending. What I was expecting was a little more about how emergency medicine works or what you should do in an emergency before you get to the hospital or when you can't get there. This is about how emergency medicine is practiced in an ER, not about emergency medicine per se, which makes the Medical School for Everyone label a little strong. So if you want to learn about dealing with medical injuries, this ain't it. If, on the other hand, you have a child that often gets sick or has minor accidents that require stitches or a cast, this will give you a lot of insight into what's going on.

Why would somebody buy this for 25$ when you can have unlimited access to all of The great courses for 25$?? Unfortunately I made this mistake twice.Other than that this was a great lesson!