Bayesian Musings: Conversations in Care, Training, and Changing Perspectives

GUEST - Dr Ruby (Palliative Care & General Medicine Physician, Australia)HOST - Dr. Vishnu Kurup (ICU Trainee, Australia)ABOUT - Dr. Ruby joins us immediately following an intensive ICU rotation, bringing a unique dual perspective shaped by both the person centered practice of palliative care, and the rigorous framework of general medicine. The conversation centers on several key clinical and systemic topics.The importance of establishing goals of care early in the patient journey are discussed,

GUEST - Dr Giuliana (Intensivist, Switzerland; worked in Australia)HOST - Dr. Vishnu Kurup (ICU Trainee, Australia)ABOUT - Dr Giuliana shares a candid intensivist’s view of the ICU as a generalist specialty: advocating for patients who can’t speak for themselves, navigating end-of-life care, and why calm, compassionate family conversations (including organ donation) matter as much as procedures. She reflects on working COVID ICUs in Switzerland and during Melbourne’s lockdowns, how visiting bans

GUEST - Dr Chris McRae (Emergency Physician, Australia)HOST - Dr. Vishnu Kurup (ICU Trainee, Australia)ABOUT - Dr Chris McRae, then an ED advanced trainee, now a consultant, unpacks what ED truly does: rapid differentiation under uncertainty, patient advocacy, and the realities of hospital flow (including a grounded take on the four-hour rule). We get into the ED-ICU interface (resus capacity, transfers, NIV/pressors, and when ICU is the right home), how ED training entry has evolved, and why calm

GUEST - Dr Kate Collins (Gastroenterologist, Australia)HOST - Dr. Vishnu Kurup (ICU Trainee, Australia)ABOUT - The debut episode features Dr Kate Collins, at recording a gastroenterology advanced trainee, now a consultant. This episode we dig into unconscious bias in liver disease (“not every cirrhotic drinks”), the ED & ICU "Gastro dance" for GI bleeds, and how COVID-era Telehealth changed patient rapport. Kate shares her rural roots, the realities of getting onto gastro training,

HOST - Dr. Vishnu Kurup (ICU Trainee, Australia)ABOUT - Same patient, different specialty, and a totally different plan. Bayesian Musings is a show about why clinicians see the same case through different lenses and insights into their training pathways, workload, acuity, and biases. In this introduction, Vishnu sets the vision: fewer turf wars, more empathy, and better care.WHO IT’S FOR - Med students, junior doctors, registrars, and anyone who’s curious!CREDITS - Written & Hosted by Vishnu //