Physician's Guide to Doctoring with Bradley B. Block, MD
341 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThis is a podcast that answers the question, "what should we have been learning while we were memorizing Kreb's cycle?" This is a practical guide for practicing physicians and other healthcare practitioners looking to improve in any and all aspects of our lives and practices. Physician and non-physician experts are interviewed on a wide range of topics to help us with personal and professional development.
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Start Your Own Medical Practice - Brian Gantwerker, MD
February 15, 2023 09:00 - 40 minutes - 56.1 MBDid you ever wonder how hard is it to start your own medical practice? Dr. Block is joined by Brian Gantwerker, MD, Founder of Craniospinal Center of Los Angeles to discuss how to start your very own medical practice. Learn about staffing, financial issues you may encounter, and licensing you will need to acquire. Board-certified neurosurgeon Brian Gantwerker, MD, specializes in the treatment of brain tumors, as well as degenerative diseases and injuries of the spinal cord. At his practice...
Invent like DaVinci - Medical Device Development with Maxwell Cooper, MD
February 08, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes - 44.6 MBDr. Maxwell Cooper is a resident physician training in diagnostic and interventional radiology at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. He is the Host of The DaVinci Hour Podcast where he interviews a variety of guests making an impact on healthcare, including Mark Cuban discussing his low-cost pharmacy business Cost Plus Drugs. Dr. Cooper is also the Co-Founder of DaVinci Academy, a company that provides video courses on YouTube, digital textbooks, and podcasts for medical students. We talked ab...
Climate Change and Medicine: How to Prepare with Caitlin Rublee, MD, MPH
February 01, 2023 12:00 - 44 minutes - 61 MBCaitlin Rublee, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado. She serves as Director of Graduate Medical Education with the Climate and Health Program through the School of Medicine and Assistant Fellowship Director for the Climate and Health Science Policy Fellowship. So what you think we’ll be talking about today. That’s right. Climate change and its impact on the practice of medicine. We talk about what she is hoarding in her bu...
How to Successfully Grow Your Brand Online with Dana Corriel, MD
January 25, 2023 12:00 - 44 minutes - 61.7 MBDana Corriel, MD, is the founder/CEO of SoMeDocs (doctorsonsocialmedia.com), which aims to build & showcase unique resources in healthcare and support the individuals within the healthcare system (to attain autonomy). Corriel is an advisor to companies, digital startups and individuals’ brands that desire to stand out in the digital space. She has taught at the Harvard conferences that include Writing, Publishing, & Social Media for Healthcare Professionals, Women in Medicine, Women Physicia...
Get Discovered by Lawyers for Medical Expert Witness Work with Beryl Vaughan
January 18, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutes - 42.8 MBBeryl Vaughan is a consultant in Practice Development, Marketing and Business Consulting for physicians in the medicolegal space as expert witnesses or who conduct evaluations with legal application. She has worked for 15 years in this field with Forensic Psychiatrists, Psychologists and, for the past 5 years, physicians in other medical specialties. She was a case manager and paralegal for 2 decades prior to turning her attention to medical expert witness practice. She has educated Forensic...
Elevate your Medical Expert Witness Game with Amy G. Fogelman, MD
January 11, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes - 54.3 MBAmy G. Fogelman, MD, is back for a follow-up interview. We talk about her first case, which she couldn’t talk much about because of privacy rules, so we also talk about her first case that went to trial, which means it is public information. We talk about what she would have done differently early on in her medical career and what I should do once I get my first case (in case anyone needs an otolaryngologist – I’m here for you). We also talk about CVs and what we should do to make our CVs ...
Disrupt Outpatient Healthcare with Direct Primary Care with Dr Maryal Concepcion
January 04, 2023 12:00 - 47 minutes - 65.1 MBWhat the heck is direct primary care? Or direct care since other specialties are adopting this model. It is a subscription service that gives you access to your doctor whenever you want it. It is disruptive! Sometimes. So we talk to Dr. Maryal Concepcion about her practice, her podcast, why she chose to stop billing insurance companies and give patients access to her 24/7. We also talk about what happens when a patient abuses this service, which patients tend to be interested, and why earlie...
Truths and Myths of OB/GYN: Birth Control and Beyond with Karen Wolowick, DO
December 21, 2022 12:07 - 31 minutes - 43.2 MBDr. Karen Wolowick has been a practicing OBGYN for over 17 years. She decided to venture into the world of private practice to try to reconnect with the more intimate and rewarding aspects of women's health. She gives a review of what all physicians should know about OB-GYN. We get a crash course in birth control, why someone should “get their hormones checked,” how to think about risks when prescribing medications in a pregnant or nursing patient, the modern practice of OB, like labor...
Nonclinical and Unconventional Careers for Physicians with John Jurica, MD
December 14, 2022 12:34 - 31 minutes - 43.2 MBDr. John Jurica is a family physician who began doing nonclinical side jobs early in his career. He started as a part time physician advisor and medical director, and subsequently worked as a hospital Chief Medical Officer for 14 years. He left his CMO position to partner in an urgent care start-up in 2014, where he continues to serve as co-owner and medical director. In 2017, John started producing the weekly Physician Nonclinical Careers Podcast, where he presents interviews with physici...
A Guide to Flourishing with Drs. Jordyn Feingold and Sanj Katyal
December 07, 2022 12:00 - 33 minutes - 45.8 MBDr. Sanj Katyal is making his third appearance on the podcast. He is a radiologist, author, coach and student of positive psychology. Sanj discovered positive psychology as an attending, whereas Jordyn discovered it as an undergrad, and both have Masters degrees in it. She’s currently a second-year psychiatry resident at Mt. Sinai and already extremely accomplished. In fact, she just published her first book, Choose Growth: A workbook for Transcending Trauma, Fear and Self-Doubt. They discov...
Litigation Involving Interfacility Transfers with Jacqueline Clancy, RN BSN MS AEMD CLNC
November 30, 2022 23:45 - 28 minutes - 38.5 MBJacqueline Clancy is a certified legal nurse consultant and expert witness who specializes in cases involving delay of care and interfacility transfers. The majority of her career was spent in identifying gaps in care, reviewing chronologies/timelines for opportunities for improvement, deviations from best practice, and writing protocols for future prevention of injury, and malpractice. She designed an Interfacility Transfer Center overseeing 23 hospitals, and designed a Logistics Center for...
What Makes a Physician a Great Spouse with Elizabeth Landry
November 24, 2022 00:25 - 37 minutes - 51.1 MBElizabeth Landry is a physician family advocate, Certified Life Coach for Physician Wives, EM wife of 20+ years, mother, and founder of The MedCommons, a digital magazine and online community serving physician spouses and partners as they navigate med school, residency, & beyond. Most of her content is for the physician’s significant other, but she had posted recently about six traits doctors need to be a great spouse, so we decided to make an episode about that in addition to discussing t...
Get Your Signal Through the Noise with Ernesto Gluecksmann
November 16, 2022 18:15 - 45 minutes - 62.5 MBErnesto Gluecksmann is the managing partner at Through the Noise, who I’ve hired to help increase the size of my audience. His strategy was so dramatically different from anyone else I had interviewed, so this is what we discuss on the podcast. How to get your name, brand and services out there to a bigger audience. The secret sauce for me was my youtube channel because so many more people are on youtube than podcasts. We talk about how to get the right eyeballs on you. Ernesto has 25 year...
Optimize Your Voice for Every Setting with Carin Gilfry
November 09, 2022 22:24 - 38 minutes - 53 MBCarin Gilfry is an experienced voice actor who voiced thousands of commercials, instructional videos, IVR systems, eLearning programs, documentaries, and video games, and narrated and produced over 100 audiobooks. She works primarily from her professional home studio in Southern California (www.GilfryStudios.com). Her past and current clients include FedEx, Volkswagen, Citibank, Duncan Hines, Aspercreme, Quaker, Clairol, CVS, Zulily.com, Neutrogena, Benjamin Moore, GrubHub, Jakks Pacific Toy...
Freakonomics of Healthcare with Bapu Jena, MD, PhD
November 02, 2022 21:00 - 49 minutes - 67.8 MBAnupam Bapu Jena, MD, PhD, is the Joseph P. Newhouse Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and a physician in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. As an economist and physician, Dr. Jena’s research involves several areas of health economics and policy including the use of natural experiments in health care, the economics of physician behavior and the physician workfo...
Medical Expert Witness Retainers, Contracts and Insurance with Dan Sandman, Esq
October 26, 2022 21:00 - 33 minutes - 45.8 MBSandman Legal Services is the nation’s only law firm dedicated to the needs of medical expert witnesses and consultants. Its founder and principal, Dan Sandman, Esq was on the show in August and gave a super engaging interview with such useful information, that I had to have him back. In the last interview, he gave an overview of the business of being a medical expert witness and in this episode, we get more granular. We talk about retainer agreements, which are the contracts between you a...
Why Are Physicians Into Real Estate Investing with Kevin Mailo, MD
October 19, 2022 21:00 - 40 minutes - 55.7 MBKevin Mailo, MD, is an emergency physician based in western Canada. He is the founder of Physician Empowerment - an organization dedicated to transforming the lives of physicians through education in finance, wellness, practice management, and leadership. He is a serial entrepreneur with companies in real estate, finance, and education. We discuss what financial issues impact American and Canadian physicians differently and then pivot into real estate, from owning and managing your own prope...
How to be a BOSS with Amy Vertrees, MD
October 12, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutes - 58.2 MBAmy E. Vertrees, MD is a general surgeon in Columbia, Tennessee, the founder of Columbia Surgery Partners, and is affiliated with Maury Regional Hospital. She went to med school at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and trained at Walter Reed. She is the founder of BOSS – the Business of Surgery Series, where she offers courses on how surgeons can enjoy clinic, dealing with difficult partners, common habits that hold us back, and how we can feel fulfilled at work. This i...
Be a Better Teacher in Every Setting with Eric Gantwerker, MD, MS, MMSc, FACS
October 05, 2022 17:00 - 41 minutes - 57.2 MBEric Gantwerker, MD, MS, MMSc (MedEd), FACS is back for a second interview. He is a pediatric otolaryngologist at Cohen Children’s Hospital at Northwell Health, associate professor of otolaryngology at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra, and vice president/ medical director at Level Ex, a medical videogame company. In a previous episode, we discussed leveraging video games for skill building. In this episode, we talk about education. As physicians, we are responsible for teaching in a lect...
Are Birds Real? The Fight Against Misinformation with Professor Timothy Caulfield
September 28, 2022 18:02 - 54 minutes - 74.8 MBProfessor Timothy Caulfield is a Canada Research Chair in health law and policy, a professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health, and a research director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. However, he is most well-known for being a misinformation debunker, having written several bestselling books, including The Cure for Everything; The Vaccination Picture; The Science of Celebrity… Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?; and, most recently, Rela...
Fixing the Electronic Medical Record Interoperability Problem with Troy Bannister of Particle Health
September 20, 2022 17:34 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MBTroy Bannister is the CEO of Particle Health, a company that is shaping the new standard for healthcare data exchange with a user-friendly application programming interface platform. After spending years in the healthcare industry as an EMT, clinical researcher, and medical student, he decided to attempt the seemingly insurmountable task of fixing the interoperability problem of electronic medical records. Particle Health gives application designers, and therefore patients, access to their r...
The Art and Science of Medical Education with Professor Margaret Hay
September 13, 2022 14:00 - 39 minutes - 54.6 MBA health psychologist by training, Dr. Margaret Hay has worked in health professional education for the past 2 decades in both curriculum governance and teaching roles. She is the inaugural Head of the Monash Centre for Professional Development and Monash Online Education in the Portfolio of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Monash University. Prior to this, she was the inaugural Director of Professional and Continuing Education, and the inaugural Director of the Monash Institute for Health & Clin...
Why Female Physicians are Burning Out with Arian Nachat, MD
September 06, 2022 16:00 - 39 minutes - 53.8 MBDr. Arian Nachat is an emergency medicine and palliative care physician, which to me was a surprising combination, so we start the discussion with why emergency medicine physicians are well suited for palliative care. Most recently, she founded Pallity which brings together resources to educate, empower and enable patients with life-altering illness to live their life to their fullest potential. Dr. Nachat currently practices emergency medicine and serves as clinical faculty at Balboa Naval ...
The Business of Medical Expert Witnessing with Dan Sandman, Esq
August 30, 2022 18:00 - 38 minutes - 52.8 MBSandman Legal Services is the nation's only law firm dedicated to the needs of medical expert witnesses and consultants. Its founder and principal, Dan Sandman, Esq., has been a licensed attorney for nearly 20 years. For nearly 8 years, Dan led a leading medical expert witness and consulting agency, American Medical Forensic Specialists ("AMFS"), helming the company as President for 5 years, and seeing it successfully through 2 acquisitions, the pandemic and exponential growth. Dan starte...
A Blueprint for Test Prep with Adam Rosh, MD
August 23, 2022 18:09 - 35 minutes - 49.1 MBAdam Rosh is the Chief Medical Officer at Blueprint Prep and Founder of Rosh Review. which he created in 2011. He received his BA and MS from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He received his medical degree from Rutgers Medical School and completed his emergency medicine residency training at NYU. He went on to serve as assistant residency director and residency director at Detroit Receiving Hospital. He is the author and editor of Pretest Emergency Medicine and Case Files Emergency Medi...
Gender-Affirming Language in Healthcare with Crystal Beal, MD, of QueerDoc.com
August 16, 2022 18:30 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MBDr. Crystal Beal, a Board-Certified Family Medicine Physician, started QueerDoc with the mission to raise the bar in gender-affirming care and improve LGBTQ+ lives through: Telemedicine-based direct clinical services Provider education LGBTQ+ DEI Healthcare consulting They leverage their lived experience and medical expertise to offer a level of unsurpassed nuance to their services. We talk about Gender-Affirming Medical Care and the evolving language surrounding it and how best to...
Put Yourself First with Simon Maltais, MD
August 09, 2022 18:00 - 36 minutes - 49.5 MBDr. Simon Maltais is an active cardiac surgeon and author of Healthcare Anonymous: Learn How to Put Yourself First While Pursuing a Calling. He served as a previous vice-chair of the Mayo Clinic, has a doctorate degree in biomedical engineering and heart regeneration. He is an internationally recognized leader in the field of heart transplantation, mechanical heart devices, and alternative cardiac interventions. He has worked in two different countries and health systems and provides a uniqu...
Physicians Who Love to Smoke - with Jimmy Turner, MD, Physician Philosopher
August 02, 2022 20:56 - 32 minutes - 44.9 MBMany of you know Dr. Jimmy Turner. He calls himself the Physician Philosopher and this is his second time on the show. In the first episode with him, we talked about his first book, The Physician Philosopher’s Guide to Personal Finance and he just published Determined: How Burned Out Doctors Can Thrive In a Broken Medical System. He also runs the alpha coaching experience and hosts the Physician Philosopher podcast. But we didn’t talk about ANY OF THAT. He recently bought a smoker and I love...
Why Don’t You Have a Remote Scribe Yet? with Terry Ciesla
July 26, 2022 17:15 - 35 minutes - 48.9 MBTerry Ciesla is the senior vice president of Scribe EMR, a remote scribing company that provides remote scribing, coding, and a variety of virtual assistance services. Prior to this, he served in various senior management positions for several healthcare service and IT vendors. He has also led startups of a medical transcription company as well as a successful venture that delivered artificial intelligence and analytics software to hospitals and physician practices in the form of computer-as...
Stories from Women Physician Leaders with Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, MD, MPH and Deborah M. Shlian, MD, MBA
July 19, 2022 21:57 - 35 minutes - 49.2 MBIn the new book Lessons Learned: Stories from Women Physician Leaders, 32 women physician leaders share their career paths with the goal of improving the trajectory of women in medicine. We talked today with Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, MD, MPH, AMWA (American Medical Women’s Association) President (2022-2023) and Professor of Medicine, Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership, and Deborah M. Shlian, MD, MBA, the book editor and author, and AMWA leader. Dr. Shlian is also CE...
How to Tell What’s Real and What’s Hype with Nina Shapiro, MD
July 12, 2022 16:01 - 46 minutes - 63.4 MBDr. Nina Shapiro is the Director of Pediatric Otolaryngology and a Professor of Head and Neck Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and Cornell University, she completed her surgical residency at Harvard and finished additional subspecialty training in pediatric otolaryngology at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London and the Children’s Hospital of San Diego. When she has downtime between cases, you’d think she’d be sc...
Rerelease: Secrets to Being a Happy Doc from the Happiest Doc, Taylor Brana, DO
July 11, 2022 16:09 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBDr. Taylor Brana was a Resident Physician at the time of the original recording (now at attending) in Psychiatry, Creator of The Happy Doc Podcast and developer of educational platforms that utilize voice-first technology. Our interview is really two separate interviews in one. In the first, we cover his podcast, where he interviews physicians on how they manage to continue finding fulfillment and enjoyment in their lives and practices in a world of crushing debt, wasteful administrative bur...
Endometriosis and the Bigger Health Picture with Laurence Orbuch, MD
July 05, 2022 17:40 - 47 minutes - 65.7 MBIn today’s episode, you’ll hear two men talking about endometriosis. I recognize the optics of this, but this is a topic I haven’t covered yet, and an important one, so when today’s expert approached the show with the idea to discuss endometriosis, I said absolutely. Dr. Laurence Orbuch completed his training at the New York Hospital Weill Cornell Medical College and SUNY Upstate Medical Center. He served as the Director of Minimally Invasive and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery at The Mount Si...
Rerelease: Size Matters Not: Tiny Habits for Big Changes, Part 2, with BJ Fogg, PhD
July 01, 2022 13:17 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBThis is part 2 of my interview with Dr. BJ Fogg, author of Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything. In this part, we talk about how success breeds success and having your patient work on the habit you want them to change shouldn’t be the first priority. The first priority should be what they want to change because it shows them that they can be successful in creating lasting change. We also discuss how positive emotions help to encode habits and he actually came up with a techn...
Let’s Go On a Hippocratic Adventure with Ashwini Bapat, MD
June 28, 2022 21:09 - 33 minutes - 45.9 MBAshwini Bapat, MD, is a palliative care doctor and co-Founder of Hippocratic Adventures a community of US-trained physicians practicing and dreaming of practicing medicine outside the US. She is also the founder of EpioneMD which provides virtual serious illness coaching and advance care planning to individuals and telepalliative care consultations to healthcare organizations. We talk about the origins of both Hippocratic Adventures and EpioneMD. She also dispels the myth that you need ...
Rerelease: Size Matters Not: Tiny Habits for Big Changes, Part 1, with BJ Fogg, PhD
June 24, 2022 13:59 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBThis interview is one of my most important. If you are doing to share any of my episodes, this is one that I would implore you to share with your friends, family and colleagues. This is part 1 of 2 of my interviews with BJ Fogg, PhD, author of the book Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything. We all struggle to change our behaviors, to develop good habits and stop bad habits. There is a lot of popular wisdom about this and most, if not all, is just wrong. This is where Dr. Fogg...
Create and Market Your Online Course Worldwide with Chester Zoda, MD
June 21, 2022 18:30 - 44 minutes - 60.7 MBDr. Chester Zoda’s education company “Digital Doctor,” helps doctors build passive income with online courses. At the start of the pandemic, Dr Zoda was working 80–100-hour weeks and feeling burnt out and overworked. He wanted to spend more time with family but was unable due to clinical obligations. He wanted to find a way to make extra money, so he created an online course teaching digital marketing via Facebook advertising. His first online course made $5,000 in the first month of launc...
Rerelease: Choosing the Right Financial Advisor with Ryan Inman, MBA
June 17, 2022 12:57 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBRyan Inman was a fee-only financial advisor who works exclusively with physicians and he teaches how to pick a financial advisor. How did he end up in the physician niche? He understands us. His wife is a pediatric pulmonologist and part of why he understands the struggle so well is that they’ve been together since college. He graduated from the University of San Diego and has two masters, one in business administration and another in Accounting and financial management. We discuss ho...
Doctor, Make Your Money Move with Altelisha Taylor, MD, MPH
June 14, 2022 14:00 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MBDr. Altelisha “Lisha” Taylor is a family medicine resident, professional speaker, doctor-preneur, and money coach who promotes physician wellness through financial literacy. She is the founder of CareerMoneyMoves.com and creator of the Facebook Group Financial Grand Rounds, two platforms that help busy young professionals, especially doctors, put systems in place to build wealth. We first discussed something unrelated to personal finance and it was how someone who went to a super competit...
Rerelease: Cardiac arrest for pathologists to podiatrists with Jeff Jarvis, MD
June 10, 2022 12:13 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBDr. Jeff Jarvis, the EMS Medical Director for Williamson County EMS and Marble Falls Area EMS in Central Texas, teaches us about cardiac arrest for every physician, from pathologists to podiatrists. We learn how to identify and manage a cardiac arrest if we happen to be the medical professional on the scene. We cover multiple circumstances from the woods to the mall to a plane. After this talk, you will feel better equipped to know what you can and can’t, should and shouldn’t do in those ...
Using Your Medical Training for Multiple Income Streams with Naomi Lawrence-Reid, MD
June 07, 2022 20:04 - 44 minutes - 60.5 MBNaomi Lawrence-Reid, M.D. is a pediatrician and founder of Doctoring Differently, a course and coaching platform designed to teach physicians of all specialties how to transition out of full-time clinical and academic practice while starting lucrative and flexible careers that best utilize their medical training and experience. We discuss all of her different income streams, like per-diem, locum tenens, veteran and social security disability exams, medical expert witness work, aesthetics, how...
Rerelease: Physician’s Guide to Trauma-Informed Healthcare Approaches with Megan Gerber, MD, MPH
June 03, 2022 23:02 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBMegan Gerber, MD, MPH is a general internist with a career-long focus on the medical care of trauma-exposed women. We start out defining trauma and then get introduced to trauma-informed care. Interfacing with the medical system and physicians can be traumatizing and triggering, so we discussed ways to minimize that, and why it actually isn’t important to identify who needs trauma informed care. We should be taking a “universal precautions” like approach. She teaches us how to incorporate a...
Everyone Needs a Virtual Assistant or Three with Steven Kupferman, DMD, MD of MedVA.com
May 31, 2022 15:31 - 30 minutes - 41.4 MBSteven Kupferman DMD, MD, Co-Founder, and CEO of MedVA, holds D.M.D. and M.D. degrees from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, respectively. He first pioneered the use of Virtual Assistants to optimize the management of his six oral surgeon practice while simultaneously improving the quality of patient care. He then went on to found MedVA, a healthcare virtual staffing company. They vet the healthcare professionals, mostly registered nurses in th...
Give Credit by CMEfying Your Content with Brian Cohen, MD
May 24, 2022 14:38 - 47 minutes - 65.7 MBBrian Cohen, MD, is a practicing anesthesiologist and entrepreneur in the digital health space. In 2015, he co-founded Miami Anesthesia Services, a concierge anesthesia company throughout South Florida. Dr. Cohen acts as Administrative Chief of Miami Anesthesia Services and Chief of their Management Service Organization that supports other independent anesthesia practices throughout Florida. Dr. Cohen is the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Adaptrack, a medical risk focused digital pla...
Rerelease: Rheumatology Made Ridiculously Simple with Adam Brown, MD
May 20, 2022 22:02 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBAdam Brown, MD, is a rheumatologist at Cleveland Clinic and the host of the Rheuminations podcast. For the med students out there, we discuss why someone would choose rheumatology and why they are frequently the smartest doctors in the hospital. We discuss the basics of arthritis, how to interpret an ANA and why we shouldn’t be so laser-focused on our own organ systems if a patient isn’t improving as expected. We also discuss why gout is such an underappreciated phenomenon. Dr. Brown went ...
Noisy Breathers and Snotty Noses: Pediatric ENT with Gopi Shah, MD
May 17, 2022 17:20 - 1 hour - 84.2 MBGopi Shah is a Pediatric Otolaryngologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. She did her residency in otolaryngology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia and her fellowship in peds at UT Southwestern. Her clinical interests are pediatric sinus and skull base. She loves teaching and is the fellowship director for pediatric otolaryngology. She is also a co-host for the BackTable ENT podcast. We talk a little about the podcast and then get into...
Does Everyone Have Pencillin Allergy? Does Anyone? with Payel Gupta, MD
May 14, 2022 01:14 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MBOn today’s show we speak to allergist, Dr. Payel Gupta about penicillin allergy. Dr. Gupta is triple board certified in Allergy & Immunology, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine and currently has a practice at Ease Allergy in Brooklyn. We discuss how common penicillin allergy is and how commonly the diagnosis is incorrect. She goes through the four types of hypersensitivity reaction, and then focus in on type I, the IgE-mediated reaction. We go through presentation, treatment, and some commo...
How to Build a Winning Team with Aaron Fritts, MD, of Backtable
May 10, 2022 16:00 - 57 minutes - 79.4 MBDr. Aaron Fritts is a co-founder of BackTable and a practicing Interventional Radiologist in Dallas, Texas. Early in his practice, Dr. Fritts realized the need for centralized, in-depth procedure and device information that his peers could access on the fly. Not long after, BackTable was born. Backtable is a podcasting brand for physician education, which started as interventional radiology and now also includes ENT, urology and their newest podcast, innovation, for physician entrepreneurs. W...
WTF PSLF?! with Michael Foley CFP
May 06, 2022 05:00 - 42 minutes - 27.6 MBMichael Foley is a comprehensive financial advisor who runs his practice out of Scottsdale, Arizona, under North Star Resource Group. Michael was trained at Duke University and holds his Certified Financial Planner designation alongside his Certified Student Loan Professional designation. Although Michael serves a diverse group of clients with their financial and student loan needs, with two physician parents, Michael has found a specialty in working with those in the healthcare space. He h...
Get Organized for Better Work-Life Balance with Sarah Hart-Unger, MD
May 02, 2022 18:03 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBDr. Sarah Hart-Unger is a pediatric endocrinologist, who did all of her education at Duke, and is now the pediatric residency program director at Joe Dimaggio Children’s Hospital in South Florida. She is intrigued by the challenges of making work and life fit together — so much that she cohosts a podcast on the topic, Best of Both Worlds, with time management expert and writer Laura Vanderkam. She is married to a vascular surgeon and has three young children, so we discuss how they manage g...