Navigating Toxic Alcohol Intoxication

In this Pulmonary & Critical Care episode, Dr. Meghan Nothem presents an unusual case of acute encephalopathy and unresponsiveness to Dr. Paul A. Bergl. Stay tuned to found out the final diagnosis!

Session facilitator: Dr. Hui Ting Ruan

Case discussant: 

Dr. Paul A. Bergl is an intensivist at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse, WI and clinical adjunct assistant professor with the University of Wisconsin. He completed medical school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, internal medicine residency at the University of Chicago, and critical care fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Dr. Bergl is a decorated educator with over a dozen major teaching awards and honors from medical students, residents, and fellows. His foremost passions in medical eduation are critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning. His other scholarly work has focused on diagnostic error, point-of-care ultrasonography and echocardiography, and bedside teaching and rounding.

Case presenter: Dr. Meghan Nothem

Dr. Nothem is a third year Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine fellow at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she also completed her Internal Medicine residency and served as Chief Resident. Prior to returning to her home city for post-graduate training, she earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology at University of Wisconsin-Madison and her medical degree at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Parker, Colorado. Dr. Nothem will be joining a Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine practice in Milwaukee upon completion of her fellowship in summer of 2025.

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