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Dr Paddy Barrett Podcast

55 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 151 ratings

The 'Dr Paddy Barrett Podcast' explores topics related to the optimization of Lifespan, Health Span & Soul Span.
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Living With Purpose & Meaning.
With over half a million downloads and conversations with thought leaders including Dr Eric Topol, Dr Barry Schwartz, Dr Deepak Chopra and Dr Brene Brown the conversation on real health starts here.

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Dr Paddy Barrett - Relaunching The Podcast

May 24, 2021 11:17 - 5 minutes - 6.27 MB

Welcome back everyone! After much deliberation I have decided to relaunch the podcast. I had originally intended to do so about 18 months ago but found that I did not want to limit the conversation to clinician burnout alone. The podcast is now called the 'Dr Paddy Barrett Podcast' and will be an exploration of topics much closer to home from a professional perspective as a preventive cardiologist. For me, health is about optimizing 3 parts. Lifespan, health span and soul span. The l...

Surf Doctor - Dr Peter Acker On Global Emergency Care & Surf Medicine

September 26, 2016 04:20 - 39 minutes - 54 MB

Dr Peter Acker is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine. In addition to his work in the ER, he is an active member of the Stanford Emergency Medicine International Team whose work it is to assist in the provision of emergency medical care around the world. Dr Acker is also a key member of the organization, 'Surfing Doctors' and gets to combine his love of surfing with his passion for medicine.  The topic of surf medicine has been reque...

Alternative Careers In Medicine - Dr Abeyna Jones of Medic Footprints

September 19, 2016 02:01 - 46 minutes - 64.2 MB

Dr Abeyna Jones is an Occupational Medicine Registrar in London and is also the founder of Medic Footprints, a site dedicated to physician wellness and alternative careers in medicine. Dr Jones has travelled the world with her medical training and even spent time as a trauma surgeon in Africa in not exactly ideal conditions but garnered more satisfaction from that experience than her conventional surgical training in the UK at that time.  This is a fantastic conversation about the challeng...

Rehumanizing Healthcare - Dr Robin Youngson of 'Hearts In Healthcare'

September 12, 2016 02:14 - 45 minutes - 62.7 MB

Dr Robin Youngson is a practicing anesthesiologist and international advocate for promoting compassion in healthcare. Dr Youngson has worked for many years on developing the concepts of rehumanizing healthcare at a clinical and leadership level. In addition to being the CoFounder of 'Hearts in Healthcare', a global social movement for physicians, he is also the author of several books, his most recent being the highly acclaimed 'Time To Care: How to love your patients and your job'. This i...

The Dangers Of Sleep Deprivation - Prof Russell Foster, Oxford UK.

September 05, 2016 03:19 - 38 minutes - 53.3 MB

Prof Russell Foster is a circadian neuroscientist and heads the Circadian Neuroscience Institute at the University of Oxford, UK. He has spent his career exploring the issues of sleep, from why we sleep to what its relationship is with mood disorders and abnormal cognitive behavior.  This is a conversation I have wanted to have for quite some time and a topic I wanted to include on the show as sleep, or more accurately, its absence is an ever present concern for most physicians.  If you ...

The Inevitability Of Physician Burnout - Dr Anthony Montgomery, Organizational Psychologist

August 29, 2016 00:14 - 47 minutes - 65.5 MB

Dr Anthony Montgomery is an organizational psychologist and an internationally recognized expert on burnout. Currently he is an Associate Professor of Work & Organizational Psychology at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. He has studied the individual and organizational elements of burnout for many years and his findings are fascinating.  I came across Dr Montgomery's work after reading an article he wrote entitled 'The Inevitability of Physician Burnout'. This is an enligh...

Physicians As Agents For Change - Dr Stephen Beeson of Practicing Excellence

August 21, 2016 23:57 - 46 minutes - 64.2 MB

Dr Stephen Beeson is the founder of the Physician Effective Project at Practicing Excellence and a nationally recognized leader in physician and healthcare performance. Dr Beeson is a  family medicine physician of 20 years and played a pivotal role in transforming the Sharp Rees-Stealy Healthcare group from a lowest tertile group to the highest, over several years. He is the author of 2 national best selling books on physician performance: Practicing Excellence and The Engaging Physician.  ...

Life As An Antarctic Physician - Dr Gavin Francis, Scottish Physician & Writer

August 15, 2016 01:55 - 41 minutes - 57.4 MB

Dr Gavin Francis is a Scottish physician and award winning writer. He has practiced medicine across the globe from Africa, India, Greenland, the Arctic and Antartica. After a rigorous selection process he was chosen to be the sole physician for a 15 month period on the Halley Research station in Antartica. The Halley Research station is said to be harder evacuate a casualty in winter than the International Space Station.  This is a fantastic conversation with a physician who has used the p...

Inside The Mind Of Burnout - Psychoanalyst Prof Josh Cohen

August 08, 2016 00:13 - 38 minutes - 53.5 MB

Prof Josh Cohen is a psychoanalyst and Professor of Modern Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. Prof Cohen is the author of a recent article featured in The Economist entitled 'When Minds Turned To Ash' which explores the societal issue of burnout and why its possibly not a matter of working too hard.  This is a fantastic conversation with an incredibly insightful mind on the topic of burnout. I certainly learned an immense amount from this discussion and I would highly recommen...

When A Helicopter Is Your Emergency Room - Dr Mike Abernethy - Flight Physician

July 31, 2016 23:21 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MB

Dr Mike Abernethy is full time Flight Physician and Clinical Professor at the University of Wisconsin. Having completed Medical School at the University of Cincinnati and Residency at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics. Dr Abernethy has been a practicing Flight Physician for 25 years and is an internationally recognized speaker on the topic. This is a great conversation blending the topics of medicine and aviation. We get into the details of what it takes to be a flight physic...

Are Physician Burnout & Depression The Same? - Dr Douglas Mata Provides Insight

July 25, 2016 00:15 - 38 minutes - 53.3 MB

Dr Douglas Mata is a Resident Pathology Physician at the Brigham & Women's Hospital and a Clinical Fellow at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.  He attended the University of Cambridge, UK on a Fulbright Scholarship and the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Madrid, Spain. Dr Mata has also published extensively on the area of physician burnout and physician mental health, with his work appearing in the NEJM, Lancet Psychiatry and The New York Times. I have read much of Dr Mata'...

The Biology Of Physician Mental Health. Dr Srijan Sen of the 'Intern Health Study'

July 18, 2016 02:13 - 41 minutes - 56.9 MB

Dr Srijan Sen is an Associate Professor at The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan. Additionally, he is the Principal Investigator of the Intern Health Study which has tracked the biological and psychological features of thousands of early stage physicians over almost 10 years.  There are very few experts in the field of physician mental health but Dr Sen is certainly one of them. This is a fascinating conversation which touches on why physicians are at such risk of ment...

From Digital Health to The Opioid Epidemic with Dr Mark Shapiro of 'Explore The Space'

July 11, 2016 02:49 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MB

Dr Mark Shapiro is an Internal Medicine physician here in the California area and is the host of the fascinating podcast 'Explore The Space'.  This is our second conversation on the show, mostly because I believe Dr Shapiro has such interesting perspectives to share and our first interview was not optimal because of sound quality which was entirely my own fault; lesson learned! This is a super conversation where we dig into many of the topics Dr Shapiro has covered on his show, from the ...

Being A Writer & A Doctor - Dr Louise Aronson

July 04, 2016 01:41 - 37 minutes - 51.1 MB

Dr Louise Aronson is Professor of Medicine at University of California San Francisco and directs the Northern California Geriatrics Education Centre and UCSFs Medical Humanities. Having graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed her residency at UCSF she has gone on to become a multi award wining writer and has contributed to a variety of outlets including The New York Times, JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine.  This is an fantastic conversation with someone who is truly...

The Dochitect - Where Medicine & Architecture Meet.

June 20, 2016 01:40 - 40 minutes - 56.1 MB

Dr Diana Anderson is an Internal Medicine physician and trained Architect. Having the unique opportunity to view the healthcare environment though the lens' of being both a physician and architect provides an incredible viewpoint on the world of healthcare. Dr Anderson is the founder of the website, Dochitect.com, where the worlds of medicine and design collide.  Dr Andersons work is truly emblematic for everything this show represents in so far as it illustrates how physicians can add val...

Leprosy Clinics & Digital Health - Dr Kunal Patel

June 13, 2016 01:19 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MB

Dr Kunal Patel is a Travel and Tropical Health Physician and Global Health Expert working at the intersections of Digital Health and developing world healthcare training and education. Among many things he is the Medical Director of iHeed, an online medical education platform.  This is a fantastic conversation about the possibilities in medicine and the opportunity for it to take you to far flung places such as leprosy clinics in India. We also get into dealing with the uncertainties of th...

Will Algorithms Replace Doctors? Dr Ravi Komatireddy On Software In Medicine.

June 06, 2016 03:36 - 37 minutes - 51.7 MB

Dr Ravi Komatireddy is an Internal Medicine Physician and Digital Health Innovator with a deep knowledge of clinical decision support software and how technology will ultimately augment the clinical work flow. The issue of algorithms replacing physicians has become increasingly controversial but the question is not how to resist it, but rather embrace it so as to allow us to what we do best as physicians and augment our relationship with patients rather than take from it.  If you enjoyed t...

Dr Al Muggia On Life Long Learning and Insight in Medicine

May 30, 2016 03:45 - 38 minutes - 53.4 MB

Dr Al Muggia is a full time practicing gastroenterologist in Winchester, Massachusetts. After graduating from Medical School at Yale University he went on to practice at the hospital his father once worked at. In addition to his full time practice he is an ambassador for maximizing the patient care experience and recognizing and developing all the opportunities that patient care presents.  This episode is a wonderful illustration of so many of the challenges and opportunities we encounter ...

Dr Scott Weingart On Medical Podcasting & A Broken ER System

May 22, 2016 21:43 - 41 minutes - 57.2 MB

Dr Scott Weingart is a physician who specializes in Resuscitation and Emergency Department Critical Care. He is the host of the immensely successful medical podcast EmCrit which is downloaded hundreds of thousands of times per month by physician across the globe.  On this episode we get into the role of medical podcasts in physician education and how the current Emergency Department system is broken in so many ways. If you enjoyed this episode please ‘Subscribe‘ on iTunes or Stitcher. ...

Dr Kate Granger On The Importance Of "Hello My Name Is"

May 16, 2016 01:06 - 33 minutes - 45.7 MB

Dr Kate Granger is an Elderly Medicine Consultant in her early 30s in Yorkshire in the UK - 'Nothing unusual about that really' as she comments in her blog. What is different about Kate is that for several years she has been living with a  terminal cancer diagnosis and how she has navigated that journey. She is the author of two books and has blogged to over a million readers on her blog. In addition to this she is the driving force behind the #HelloMyNameIs campaign for those in healthcare ...

Chase Jarvis On The Pursuit Of Passion & The Fallacy Of Sunk Costs

May 09, 2016 01:06 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MB

Chase Jarvis is a world renowned photographer, director and artist who dropped out of medical school and took the road less traveled. Going against all convention, he didn't wish to be forced into a mold he knew was wrong for him and took off around the world with a camera his recently deceased grandfather had given him.  Chase has now spent over 20 years shooting film and video for some of the biggest names and wildest places on Earth, having worked with Apple, Google, Red Bull, Lady Gaga...

Dr Ian Williams On Embracing The Artistic Side Of Medicine

May 02, 2016 03:04 - 45 minutes - 62.7 MB

Dr Ian Williams is a physician, comic artist and writer and on completion of his medical training went on to do further studies in Fine Art and Medical Humanities. He is a co-founder of GraphicMedicine.org which explores all that is artistic in in medicine and is also the author of the recent graphic novel 'Bad Doctor'. He is also the co-author of the 'Graphic Medicine Manifesto' which has been nominated for an Isner award.  In addition to his work as an artist, Ian shines a light on mental...

Ciaran Carthy On The Crossovers Of Aviation & Medicine

April 25, 2016 01:41 - 44 minutes - 60.9 MB

Ciaran Carthy is a Commercial Airline pilot of over 30 years with 13,000 hours of flight time on a variety of aircraft. He currently works as a flight instructor and airline safety auditor. In addition to these roles he works with the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland exploring what can be learned from air accidents and how these findings can impact healthcare personnel training.  As a pilot I believe there is tremendous bidirectional crossover of knowledge from aviation and medicine. ...

Dr Erin Martin On Recognizing What You Truly Want As A Physician

April 18, 2016 02:10 - 41 minutes - 56.8 MB

Dr Erin Martin is a Primary Care physician with specialist interests in Integrative and Functional Medicine. She is the founder of the TrueMed Institute in Hood River, Oregon and was thrust into the healthcare spotlight with her role in the award winning documentary 'Escape Fire', which has been described by some as the 'Inconvenient Truth' of Healthcare.  I have wanted to have Erin on the show for quite some time after seeing the documentary, Escape Fire, and in the interview we deep dive ...

Dr Liz O'Riordan On Being Both A Breast Cancer Surgeon & Patient

April 10, 2016 18:48 - 39 minutes - 54.5 MB

Dr Liz O'Riordan is a Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon in the UK. In 2015 she was diagnosed with the very illness she has spent her life treating and has chosen to chronicle her experiences in her truly wonderful blog liz.oriordan.co.uk .  This episode is a truly special one as it touches on so many of the issues that we fear as physicians; seeing yourself as a patient with the disease you know so much about to the challenges of choosing your own doctor, when almost all of them are you...

Dr Adam Kaplin On Physician Suicide & Maintaining Balance

April 03, 2016 17:45 - 45 minutes - 62.3 MB

Dr Adam Kaplin is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and also Assistant Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Having completed his MD Phd at Johns Hopkins he has gone on to invent Mood 24, a text message enabled platform to measure mood on a daily basis. He serves on a variety of Scientific Advisory Boards for numerous biotechnology companies and scientific foundations including the Montel Williams MS Foundation and the Nancy Davis MS Foundation.  In th...

Dr Daniel Meltzer On Trusting Your Instincts & Having No Fear.

March 27, 2016 22:33 - 41 minutes - 57.6 MB

Dr Daniel Meltzer is a Boston University trained Emergency Medicine physician. Having originally worked in Healthcare Consulting, he went on to become the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, California. Currently he is the Chief Learning Officer at Practicing Excellence, a physician and healthcare coaching organization based in San Diego.  In this conversation we go deep on the value of trusting your instincts on big decisions in your life and how conversations wi...

Dr Mike Gibson On How Art & Medicine Combine

March 20, 2016 21:18 - 36 minutes - 50.2 MB

Dr Mike Gibson is an Interventional Cardiologist and Professor Of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Having trained at Beth Israel Hospital he has gone on to be one of the most influential voices in medicine and cardiology today. He is one of the master voices of medicine on Twitter with over 200,ooo followers and is a news anchor for the worlds biggest interventional cardiology conference and news site, TCTMD. He is the founder of WikiDocs, the worlds largest open source online medical tex...

Brian Johnson Of Philosophers Notes On Finding Your Passion

March 13, 2016 22:56 - 35 minutes - 48.6 MB

Brian Johnson is a 'Teacher Of Wisdom' and the founder of Philosophers Notes and Optimize 101. Having dropped out of Law School early in life, he has pursued a Phd in 'Living', by diving deep into the texts of philosophy and personal development that have been written through the ages. His website BrianJohson.me is a fantastic resource of the philosophies of how to pursue your passion in life and navigate the challenges we face.  This is an incredible discussion on how philosophy can change...

Dr Mark Shapiro On Exploring The Blind Spots We Have As Physicians

March 07, 2016 04:15 - 51 minutes - 71.1 MB

Dr Mark Shapiro is a Baylor College of Medicine, Texas trained Hospitalist who practices full time here in California. He is also the host of the healthcare podcast 'Explore The Space' and in addition to flexing his creative muscles in the podcasting space he has also worked as a full time sports writer. This conversation is full of gems of wisdom where we delve deep into the topics that often lie in our blind spot as physicians.   We explore some incredibly exciting topics from how Abraham...

Dr Adam Gazzaley On How Taking The Road Less Travelled Matters Most

February 28, 2016 20:28 - 47 minutes - 65.3 MB

Dr Adam Gazzaley is Director of the Gazzaley Lab and Professor of Neuroscience, Physiology and Psychiatry at UCSF. His work as a cognitive researcher has reached international acclaim with publications in Nature, The New York Times, TIME, Discover, WIRED and has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors. He wrote and hosted the PBS documentary 'The Distracted Mind" and continues to do cutting edge research in the area of cognitive neuroscience with a particular interest in how gaming ...

Dr Brene Brown On Physician Courage & Vulnerability

February 22, 2016 04:56 - 47 minutes - 64.9 MB

Dr Brene Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work and is a world renowned expert in shame, guilt and vulnerability research. She is the author of 3 New York Times best sellers and her TEDx talk has been viewed almost 25 million times. She is also the Founder and CEO of The Daring Way and COURAGEworks.  This was a conversation I was looking forward to having for quite some time and I believe the issues we discuss are at the very core of physi...

Dr Paul Teirstein On Finding Fulfillment In Life & Work

February 15, 2016 03:10 - 52 minutes - 71.7 MB

Dr Paul Teirstein is Chief of Cardiology at the Scripps Green Hospital, La Jolla, California. He is a world renowned Interventional Cardiologist and was a pioneer in the early development of coronary stent technologies. He is the holder of 23 patents, all of which have been licensed. Last year, he was awarded one of the most prestigious awards in cardiology, being recipient of the Geoffrey Hartzler, Master Clinical Operator award. Beyond the world of medicine he is an immensely accomplished ...

Dr Dike Drummond - Beating Burnout - Part 2

February 08, 2016 02:16 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MB

Dr Dike Drummond is a Mayo trained Family Practice Physician who now specializes in physician burnout. The founder of TheHappyMD.com and author 'Stop Physician Burnout' he has come face to face with the realities of burnout as a physician on two separate occasions himself. He understands the complexities of physician burnout and how the one suffering burnout is often the last to know. Dr Drummond has coached thousands of physicians through the challenging times of burnout and speaks regularl...

Dr Dike Drummond Deep Dives On Burnout - Part 1

January 31, 2016 19:47 - 41 minutes - 56.4 MB

Dr Dike Drummond is a Mayo trained Family Practice Physician who now specializes in physician burnout. The founder of TheHappyMD.com and author 'Stop Physician Burnout' he has come face to face with the realities of burnout as a physician on two separate occasions himself. He understands the complexities of physician burnout and how the one suffering burnout is often the last to know. Dr Drummond has coached thousands of physicians through the challenging times of burnout and speaks regularl...

Dr Este Geraghty on Personalizing Your Medical Career & Healthcare Data Visualization

January 25, 2016 04:17 - 55 minutes - 75.8 MB

Dr Este Geraghty is the Chief Medical Officer of Esri (Environmental Systems Research Institute) in Redlands, California. Having originally trained in Internal Medicine and working as an Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine at UC Davis her primary focus is now on how healthcare data visualization can change how we deliver healthcare in the modern world. This is an exciting conversation with topics ranging from how technology will guide the patient to the best car parking space to...

Dr Bruce Johnson On Research On Everest & Antarctica

January 18, 2016 02:44 - 39 minutes - 54.3 MB

Dr Bruce Johnson is an extreme physiology researcher at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota whose real laboratories are the extreme environments the world has to offer. He has conducted high altitude physiology research with climbers on Aconcagua in Argentina and free divers in Croatia. He has also conducted high altitude research over two seasons in Antarctica. Recently, as part of a NorthFace and National Geographic expedition to Everest he conducted extreme physiology research with the ...

Dr Ronan Kavanagh On Embracing Creative Interests In Medicine

January 10, 2016 22:48 - 50 minutes - 68.7 MB

Dr Ronan Kavanagh is a practicing rheumatologist in Galway, Ireland and is the co-founder of the dotMED Conference which embraces all that is creative in medicine. In addition to his full time practice Dr Kavanagh is a regular medical blogger and has been one of the leading physicians on social media for many years. Dr Kavanagh is a medical columnist with The Medical Independent, is a consultant to several med tech startups and is also the chairman of the Macnas Theatre Company.  This discu...

Dr Dike Drummond - Burnout Exercises

January 06, 2016 18:08 - 4 minutes - 6.21 MB

Here are two quick exercises by Dr Dike Drummond, the physician burnout expert, that anyone struggling in healthcare should try. The first helps greatly in providing insight into burnout, the second is an emergency reset button when things get challenging. Enjoy! 

Dr Dike Drummond on Physician Burnout & How To Deal With It

January 03, 2016 21:23 - 50 minutes - 69.6 MB

Dr Dike Drummond is a Mayo trained Family Practice Physician who now specializes in physician burnout. The founder of TheHappyMD.com and author 'Stop Physician Burnout' he has come face to face with the realities of burnout as a physician on two separate occasions himself. He understands the complexities of physician burnout and how the one suffering burnout is often the last to know. Dr Drummond has coached thousands of physicians through the challenging times of burnout and speaks regularl...

Dr Ryan Gray on Dealing with Adversity & Getting Into Medical School

December 28, 2015 00:03 - 46 minutes - 63.4 MB

Dr Ryan Gray is a Flight Surgeon and Aerospace Medicine Physician who has also founded MedicalSchoolHQ.net, which guides applicants through the often arduous process of applying to medical school. In this interview we deep dive into some of the ingredients to an excellent medical school application, what a Flight Surgeon really does and how to deal with adversity when unexpected things come your way.  If you enjoyed this episode please ‘Subscribe‘ on iTunes or Stitcher. Enjoy! Selected Sh...

Dr David Cox On Frontline Care To Chief Medical Office Of A World Leading Meditation Platform.

December 21, 2015 03:25 - 36 minutes - 50 MB

Dr David Cox is the Chief Medical Officer of Headspace, one of the worlds leading providers of online meditation. Having begun his career as an Emergency Department physician, he soon realized that to implement the changes he felt were so needed at an institutional level in healthcare, would require a transition to his role as a healthcare executive and management consultant. After several years in an executive role, the opportunity to join Headspace came about through a fortuitous meeting w...

Dr David Albert - Physician, Inventor and Serial Entrepreneur

December 13, 2015 20:55 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MB

Dr David Albert is a Cardiologist, Inventor and Serial Entrepreneur who holds over 40 patents and has been the founder of multiple successful medtech startups. Currently he is the founder AliveCor, a personalized EKG device that is compatible with your smartphone which went viral after a famous 4 minute self made Youtube video.  The medtech world is increasingly appealing to physicians but is fraught with challenges and pitfalls. Dr Albert has managed to navigate this world to immense succe...

Dr Pamela Wible on Being The Doctor That You Want To Be.

December 06, 2015 23:01 - 47 minutes - 64.7 MB

Dr Pamela Wible is a Family Medicine physician in Eugene, Oregon who runs one of the most unique medial practices in the United States today. It is a healthcare center designed not by doctors, but by patients. She is the author of 'Pet Goats and Pap Smears' and founder of the site IdealMedicalCare.org. Having spoken at TEDMED and Tedx she is truly a unique and passionate voice for physicians who are struggling in todays healthcare infrastructure.  This is an enlightening conversation on top...

Dr Ed Coats on Adventure in Medicine & Dealing With Challenges

November 29, 2015 22:18 - 57 minutes - 79 MB

Dr Ed Coats is a Specialist Registrar/Fellow in Reproductive Medicine in Nottingham, UK but is also an incredibly seasoned adventurer and explorer. As part of a 5 part TV Documentary series for the BBC entitled 'On Thin Ice' he raced to the South Pole with James Cracknell and Ben Fogle. Prior to this he represented Great Britain as a track and field decathlete and also embarked on an epic '30 at 30' challenge which saw him participate in a host of extreme athletic events over the course of a...

ZDoggMD - Dr Zubin Damania On Finding Your Passion In Life & Novel Healthcare Solutions

November 22, 2015 22:59 - 56 minutes - 77.4 MB

Dr Zubin Damania AKA ZDoggMD is the Founder of Turntable Health, a novel healthcare delivery model in Downtown Las Vegas. Trained as an Internal Medicine physician at Stanford University he also spent time being a stand up comedian which ultimately transformed him into the satirical healthcare star he is today. Over several years he has enlightened and entertained the healthcare community with videos ranging from 'Manhood in the mirror' as a promotion for testicular cancer screening to 'EHR ...

Dr Joe Smith on the Intersections of Medicine, Engineering & Psychology

November 15, 2015 19:45 - 41 minutes - 56.8 MB

Dr Joe Smith is the Chief Medical & Science Officer at the West Health Institute and President of The West Health Policy Center. Originally trained in Medical Engineering and Physics he then pursued his MD training at Harvard. After 20 years as a practicing Electrophysiologist he became Chief Medical Officer for Guidant and Boston Scientific's Cardiac Rhythm Management Division. Named as one of the "Twenty People Who Make Healthcare Better' he also serves as faculty advisor to the University...

Dr Dan Siegel on Empathy & Compassion in Healthcare

November 08, 2015 21:15 - 45 minutes - 62.5 MB

Dr Dan Siegal is Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, where he serves also as faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain and Development and is founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center. In addition to being an Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute he has also published several books including the New York Times bestseller No-Drama Discipline. He regularly speaks to audiences across the globe on mindfulness. Although he completed his Medical train...

Dr Ravi Komatireddy discusses Innovation in Medicine

November 01, 2015 21:35 - 49 minutes - 67.7 MB

Dr Ravi Komatireddy is the Chief Medical Officer at Reflexion Health Inc, a med tech startup focused on using motion tracking technology to entirely redefine the field of home rehabilitation. Having completed his medical school training at Dartmouth University and Internal Medicine training at UCSD he went on to complete a Fellowship in Digital Medicine at The Scripps Translational Science Institute/West Health. An Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSD he has conducted research on the effe...

Dr Sandeep Jauhar On The Disillusionment Of An American Physician.

October 25, 2015 22:11 - 44 minutes - 60.9 MB

Dr. Sandeep Jauhar is Cardiologist and the Director of Heart Failure Program at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New York. His books 'Intern: A Doctors Initiation' and 'Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician' offer incredible insights into what underpins the causes of physician disillusionment. On this episode we delve into such issues as dealing with the confusion of early training to the existential crisis of our professional expectations and how they have changed.

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