Medically Speaking with Dr. Eve Glazier
Sep 25, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 10 segments
Sepsis can begin with an ordinary infection, and the earliest signs aren't always obvious. Dr. Eve Glazier sits down with UCLA Health hospitalist Russell Kerbel, MD, to explain what happens when the…
Russell KerbelGuest
Eve GlazierHost
I mean, I want to ask you this, because do you think that experience matters here? I mean, do you think that an experienced clinician like yourself sees symptoms in a certain way? And this is where I want to get into the system, which is, again, I think something that you've set up, which is the system behind sepsis care.
But behind the clinicians, there's entire systems that you have worked on, designed or improvement that helps the whole teams recognize changes, communicate quickly and then respond, you know, very effectively and reliably.
The clinicians early in their career or late in their career, first day nurse versus veteran, this is septic shock.
And having systems in place to recognize that, having that safety net in place, having it highly reliable is what systemic improvement is about.
So building hardwired processes into your infrastructure through policies, protocols.
That's my passion to how do you move an entire organization, regardless of who's there on what day at what time, whatever patient is there, whatever age, whatever other comorbidity, can we make sure that we have the systems in place to catch this early and treat it early?
I think this is really interesting because I think that people, myself included, I'm talking to you.
I think in my mind I had that there was this big gap between being at the bedside and then designing a symptom.
But you're single-handedly closing this for me because what you're saying is that what you're so passionate about is, yes, I can provide the individual care, but how can I make sure that every patient gets that same quality of care whether you're there or not?
I mean, I want to ask you this, because do you think that experience matters here? I mean, do you think that an experienced clinician like yourself sees symptoms in a certain way? And this is where I want to get into the system, which is, again, I think something that you've set up, which is the system behind sepsis care.
But behind the clinicians, there's entire systems that you have worked on, designed or improvement that helps the whole teams recognize changes, communicate quickly and then respond, you know, very effectively and reliably.
The clinicians early in their career or late in their career, first day nurse versus veteran, this is septic shock.
And having systems in place to recognize that, having that safety net in place, having it highly reliable is what systemic improvement is about.
So building hardwired processes into your infrastructure through policies, protocols.
That's my passion to how do you move an entire organization, regardless of who's there on what day at what time, whatever patient is there, whatever age, whatever other comorbidity, can we make sure that we have the systems in place to catch this early and treat it early?
I think this is really interesting because I think that people, myself included, I'm talking to you.
I think in my mind I had that there was this big gap between being at the bedside and then designing a symptom.
But you're single-handedly closing this for me because what you're saying is that what you're so passionate about is, yes, I can provide the individual care, but how can I make sure that every patient gets that same quality of care whether you're there or not?
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