Reuben Strayer was born on the shores of Lake Michigan but raised and schooled in Texas until moving to balmy Montreal for a residency in emergency medicine. His clinical areas of interest include airway management, analgesia, opioid misuse, procedural sedation, agitation, decision-making and error. His extra-clinical areas of interest include sweeping generalizations and jalapeu00f1o peppers. He tweets @emupdates and writes at emupdates.com.