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Dr. Muhammad Rafique, guest editor of December’s ASA Monitor, joins Dr. Zach Deutch for a conversation about what happens when bad things happen to good anesthesiologists. Learn how physicians and health care organizations can prepare for, or react to, bad outcomes, legal issues, personal challenges, and more. Recorded November 2024.
Muhammad B. Rafique, MD, is an associate professor at Loyola University Medical Center just outside of Chicago, Illinois. His areas of clinical interest are pediatric anesthesia and pediatric cardiovascular anesthesia.
After finishing medical school in Lahore, Pakistan, Dr. Rafique travelled to the U.S. where he interned at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and then moved to Boston, Massachusetts, for his residency. He then completed a one-year fellowship in pediatric anesthesia at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, joined the faculty at the University of Oklahoma as an assistant professor, and later joined the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston as an associate professor and consultant pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist. Dr. Rafique has been married to his wife Chanda Babur for almost 16 years and they have three children aged 10, 8, and 7.
Zachary Deutch, MD, FASA, is an attending anesthesiologist with US Anesthesia Partners in Palm Coast, FL and is a guest editor for The Central Line Podcast. Dr. Deutch serves on the editorial board for the ASA Monitor, and is the author of the bimonthly column "Ask The Expert." Dr. Deutch is also the physician review editor of the ASA Monitor Today, is a member of several ASA Committees, and is an at-large member of the ASA House of Delegates from Florida.
Dr. Deutch is a graduate of Princeton University and The George Washington University School of Medicine. His residency training was done at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, followed by a cardiothoracic anesthesia fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Date of last update: December 9, 2024
