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Tim Conley

American professional golfer

Aug 7, 2026

9:48
Tim?
9:49
One of the, one of the things I don't think people realize about poison control, Peter, um, and I'm gonna kinda throw Peter under the bus a little, because him and I, full disclosure, have worked together for many years now, um, and I can't tell you how many times I use poison control or even Peter's expertise for support, but from the international disaster side, I've gotten calls from combat zones who are experiencing these, you know, these sort of symptoms i- in this environment, or they were exposed to this chemical, and I've contacted poison control or, um, Peter as a toxicologist, and Peter was able, again, not to give them specific medical direction, but some guidance.
10:29
Would you agree, Peter?

9 MINS LATER

19:37
Um, Tim?
19:39
So that's actually a really interesting question, and in my international disaster work and EMS work, I've been very fortunate to spend a lot of time around the toxicologists, and I've learned a saying, "The difference between poison and cure is the dose." Even atropine, which we, you know, can be used to speed up the heart in certain situations, is an antidote for organophosphates.
20:01
You know, glucagon is an antidote for beta blockers.
20:05
Uh, would you agree, Peter?
6:26
And that's kind of your role, isn't it, Tim, is to – Anything that involves an operational expert or expertise,
6:39
is that you? Yeah, it's a lot more complicated in the practice, but the explanation is really simple, right? Put the tools in the hands of the people who do the job.
6:52
I mean, that's really what emergency management or emergency response comes to.
6:58
Planning, logistics, operations, just creating systems.
7:01
It doesn't matter how good the healthcare provider is at the end, that's the end user.
7:06
If they don't have the tools to do the job, they can't do the job.
7:10
A lot of these things come down to planning and logistics.

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22:41
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