The DOALS anesthesia podcast · Vol. 01
It was covered.
Just not all the way down.
For anesthesia students — and everyone who remembers being one. No heavy textbook jargon. No board-prep panic. One idea per episode, taken apart gently and put back together.
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The Drug
Compendium™
Every drug you push has a story — a plant, an accident, a war, a chemist who was looking for something else entirely. Then it has a receptor, a curve, and a reason it does what it does at three in the morning. One drug a week, all the way down.
Propofol is free — the whole first episode, start to finish, so you have a chance to hear pharmacology terms you can understand. To invest in your learning, join the community and become a member.
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Origin
Where the molecule actually came from, told like the story it is — accurate, but with the drama left in.
Mechanism
One governing idea per drug, then everything else derived from it. No receptor lists to memorize.
At the bedside
Why it behaves the way it does when you're tired, the patient is light, and the pressure is dropping.
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