Sam Stellpflug

Positively Deviant Emergency Medicine

Sam Stellplug is currently a core faculty member, a night hawk doc at Regions and the program director for our Toxicology Fellowship. He has a diverse history that informs his style and manner of practice and I really had fun exploring what he had to say.

Outline

• Introduction and Sam’s Background
• Performing an Annual Family Assessment
• Work fulfillment
• Shift preparation
• Night Hawk Thoughts
• Post Night Turn Around
• Sam’s Drug Cocktail for Night Shift Success
• Learning from community practice – self assessment of the Event Log
• Benefit of verbal communication with nurses about new orders
• Test ordering and result dichotomization as the sole key to fulfillment in emergency medicine (we spent A LOT of time here)
• Supervision of learners and methods to train based on learning level
• Translating Brazilian Jujitsu to Emergency Medicine and personal improvement
• Managing emotion during typically stress inducing events
• Hey, is that John Candy?
• Wait. I have a question!
• Wrap up – Sam’s already got his kid managing multiple patients.