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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When Physicians Should Outsource, Sell, or Lead with Jeff Bailet, MD of Altais
July 28, 2021 15:42 - 45 minutes - 27.3 MBDr. Jeff Bailet is president and chief executive officer of Altais, a subsidiary of Blue Shield of California. Altais was formed to help physicians and their practices reduce administrative burden, spend more time with patients, and improve access to quality, affordable health care. Dr. Bailet has more than 25 years of healthcare leadership experience having served as executive vice president of Blue Shield of California’s Health Care Quality and Affordability division, executive vice presid...
Learn How to Stand Up to Racism in Healthcare With Dr. Jessica Isom
July 20, 2021 19:55 - 39 minutes - 17.9 MBJessica Elizabeth Isom, MD MPH is an early career community psychiatrist, public speaker, medical educator and consultant for diversity, equity, inclusion and antiracism projects. Dr. Isom draws on her psychiatric training and humble background to connect across differences in power, education, and perspective to foster a collaborative approach to achieving racial justice and equity in medicine and beyond. She gives us a framework for addressing racist patients, family members and guests. ...
Fallible: Why Focusing On Physician Mental Health Helps Everyone with….
July 16, 2021 05:00 - 34 minutes - 21.4 MBKyle Bradford Jones, MD, FAAFP is an Associate (Clinical) Professor in Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2009, and completed his residency in Family Medicine at the University of Utah in 2012. Since then, he has worked at the Neurobehavior HOME Program, a clinical program for individuals with a developmental disability, where he leads the Primary Care and Utilization Management Teams. He is autho...
Why I Failed to Cure My Wife’s Headache and other Wisdom from Dr Scott Abramson
July 09, 2021 05:00 - 42 minutes - 23.9 MBAfter training near me at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn in neurology and neurophysiology, Dr. Scott Abramson moved cross country and joined Northern California Kaiser Permanente in July 1979 and retired from the Neurology department in San Leandro in 2020. For over 25 years, he had been involved in the communication mission at Kaiser Permanente, which all started at Toastmasters. He has been a physician coach and communications instructor. His two favorite courses were: “The Secret of Happine...
What happens when you stop asking 'why', 'when', and 'who' with John Miller
June 27, 2021 05:00 - 36 minutes - 21 MBJohn Miller was born in 1958 in Ithaca, N.Y. His dad, Jimmy Miller, was the Cornell University wrestling coach and a small-town pastor. This is probably why John finds it so natural to coach and teach! At 18, John asked 16-year-old, Karen, to a movie and a few short years later they married in June 1980. Hired by Cargill off the Cornell U. campus to be a “grain trader,” John and Karen lived in three states in five years, finally settling in Minneapolis, MN. In early 1986, John began a new ...
Doctor, Are You the Problem? with William O. Cooper, MD, MPH
June 22, 2021 18:46 - 40 minutes - 23.8 MBWilliam O. Cooper, MD, MPH, is the Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, and Director of Vanderbilt’s Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy. We discuss the Co-worker Observation Reporting System (CORS) and Patient Advocacy Response System (PARS), which use co-worker and patient unsolicited complaints to give physicians feedback. It turns out that a few outlying physicians get the bulk of the complaints, and these physicia...
Doctor, Are You the Problem? with William O. Copper, MD, MPH
June 22, 2021 18:46 - 40 minutes - 23.8 MBWilliam O. Cooper, MD, MPH, is the Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, and Director of Vanderbilt’s Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy. We discuss the Co-worker Observation Reporting System (CORS) and Patient Advocacy Response System (PARS), which use co-worker and patient unsolicited complaints to give physicians feedback. It turns out that a few outlying physicians get the bulk of the complaints, and these physicia...
A Medical Anthropologist’s Guide to the Patient Experience with Lisa Allen, PhD
June 16, 2021 15:54 - 34 minutes - 21.2 MBDr. Lisa Allen serves as the Chief Patient Experience Officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine. We discuss how strategies applied at Hopkins can be brought to smaller practices and how larger practices can give the boutique feel of smaller practices. The theme that kept coming up was that it is all about making the patients feel welcome, from training staff, to your own demeanor as a physician, to the aesthetic of the office. We also discuss complaints vs. formal grievances and how each is address...
"Look, Ma, I'm on TV!" with Dr. David Geier of Media Pros Coaching
June 07, 2021 21:50 - 41 minutes - 26.1 MBDr. David Geier is a double-board certified orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist, media medical expert, and host of the new podcast, The MEDIA PROS Show. In his practice and on his online platform, he helps people feel and perform their best, regardless of age, injuries, or medical conditions. Having done well over 2,500 TV, radio, podcast, newspaper, magazine, and online publication interviews, he now coaches experts to help them grow their practices by getting interviewed as a...
Use Humble Inquiry, Don't Make An A$$ out of U and Me with Edgar Schein, PhD, and Peter Schein, MBA
May 30, 2021 14:36 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBAward-winning father-son duo Edgar Schein and Peter Schein are renowned in the organizational healthcare development space. The pair co-founded the Organizational Culture and Leadership Institute and have collaborated on several books, including two in the Humble Leadership series. The first edition of Humble Inquiry (2013) has sold more than 200,000 copies worldwide and has been translated into 17 languages. Asking questions and actively listening to the answers is a foundational skill for ...
Bringing Southern Hospitality to the Patient Experience with Brian Carlson
May 21, 2021 01:53 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBBrian Carlson currently serves as Vice President of Patient Experience for Vanderbilt University Medical Center. In his current role, he is strategically and operationally responsible for institutional performance on service programming and metrics. Operationally he has direct oversight to Guest Services, Patient Relations, Service Consulting and Center for EMS Excellence. Strategically he advises on institutional patient experience goals and improvement, employee engagement, culture, and p...
Making Magic in Medicine the Disney Way with Jake Poore
May 18, 2021 01:04 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBJake Poore spent nearly two decades at the Walt Disney World Company in Florida helping to recruit, hire, train and align their 65,000 employees toward one end in mind: creating memorable experiences for individuals, not transactions for the masses. In 1996, Jake helped launch the Disney Institute, the external training arm of Disney that sold its business secrets to the world. 80 percent of the people who attended the Institute were from healthcare…and Jake’s passion for helping to improve ...
REUNION SHOW, Part 2 - SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Physician Questions with Jennifer Kasten, MD, MSc, MSc
May 13, 2021 00:18 - 54 minutes - 50 MBJennifer Kasten, MD, MSc, MSc is a practicing pediatric pathologist with degrees in medicine from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, infectious disease epidemiology (CID) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a year’s postgraduate work in the mathematical modeling of infectious disease at Oxford University, and a master’s in the history of medicine and science, also from Oxford University. That’s a lot of school. Given her education, and pithy sens...
REUNION SHOW, Part 1 - COVID-19 Physician Questions with Jennifer Kasten, MD, MSc, MSc
May 02, 2021 01:07 - 50 minutes - 46 MBJennifer Kasten, MD, MSc, MSc is a practicing pediatric pathologist with degrees in medicine from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, infectious disease epidemiology (CID) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a year’s postgraduate work in the mathematical modeling of infectious disease at Oxford University, and a master’s in the history of medicine and science, also from Oxford University. That’s a lot of school. Given her education, and pithy sens...
What is Eudaimonia - Secondary Infection or Secret to Happiness? with Sanj Katyal, MD
April 25, 2021 00:14 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBSanj Katyal, MD, is a radiologist and a student of positive psychology. He is the author of the Amazon #1 Best Seller Positive Philosophy: Ancient and Modern Wisdom to Create a Flourishing Life, where he combines the philosophy of the ancient stoics and Bhagavad Gita with the relatively new, science-backed positive psychology to help us live our best lives. We interviewed him about that in February of 2019. If you haven’t already listened to it, be sure to check it out. He’s taken it a step ...
Put Me in Coach - Physician Coaching for Skeptics with Randall Cook, MD
April 19, 2021 01:19 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBDr. Randall Cook has more than four decades of bedside practice as a general and vascular surgeon. He holds certifications from the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Preventive Medicine in the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine subspecialty, as well as certifications from the American Professional Wound Care Association and the American Board of Wound Management. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the Southeastern Surgical Congress, and formerly served as ...
Access! Access! Access! with Ronnesia Gaskins, PhD, MSPH
April 11, 2021 01:23 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBDr. Ronnesia Gaskins is a licensed medical psychologist with 18 years of combined clinical and research experience, assessing treating and designing and implementing research for adults, children, adolescents and families. We discussed vaccinations in the black and other minoritized communities. There has been a lot of discussion about hesitancy in the black community, but her point is that it is more of an access issue than a hesitancy issue. We discuss some ways in which we could use exist...
A Side-Gig in Medical-Legal Consulting that isn't MedMal, with Armin Feldman, MD
April 04, 2021 19:39 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBFor the past 13 years, Dr. Armin Feldman has provided Pre-Trial/Pre-Litigation medical consulting to our legal system. He has trained over 1,600 physicians around the United States to learn how to do this kind of medical consulting and supplement their income by providing these services. Dr. Feldman consults on those 9 of 10 cases that are settled and never go to trial. We discuss what makes medicolegal consultant work different from a medical expert. Essentially, you are working for the ...
Dread Breaking Bad News? - Try the Orsini Way!, with Anthony Orsini, DO
March 24, 2021 20:06 - 50 minutes - 46 MBAnthony Orsini, DO, is a practicing neonatologist who took what he learned from over 25 years of experience delivering tragic news to patients and their families and founded The Orsini Way, a communications training company that helps healthcare professionals and business leaders build strong relationships and navigate through the most difficult conversations and this is what we discuss. He teaches us his strategy for having difficult conversations, how and why to have a plan, what nonverbal...
"Don't Tell Me to Calm Down!" - How to Address Patients in Distress with Kaz Nelson, MD
March 22, 2021 11:33 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBKaz J. Nelson, MD, is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Board of #Psychiatry and #Neurology and serves as Vice Chair for Education in the University of Minnesota Department of Psychiatry & #BehavioralSciences at their #medicalschool. We discuss addressing #patientsindistress. You know who I’m talking about. The patient that says that nobody understands them and nobody listens to them and goes from doctor to doctor feeling ignored and misunderstood. She has a very specific, very methodi...
Bootstrap Your Next Medical App Idea with Gerald Diaz, MD, of GrepMed
March 17, 2021 00:37 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBGerald Diaz, MD, is a physician, former software engineer and founder of GrepMed, a free, image-based medical reference platform that serves as a more efficient alternative to text-heavy resources. Their mission is to democratize the medical reference space to reduce clinician burnout by leveraging images to shortcut the information retrieval process. GrepMed makes it easy for clinicians to find, share and bookmark management algorithms, checklists, decision aids, diagnostics schemas, POCUS...
Know Your Audience - with Social Media is Less More? with Marjorie Stiegler, MD
March 08, 2021 01:01 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBMarjorie Stiegler, MD, is a physician executive and veteran entrepreneur with over 10 years of online business experience in academia, industry, and non-profits. She teaches us how to hone our online presence so it shines a spotlight on our brand, attracts the right audience, and allows us to build our businesses. We learn what to outsource without muddling our message and if we are interested in public speaking, how to start dipping our toes in that arena. Dr. Stiegler is currently an Adj...
Vaccine Hesitancy and Allyship with Aysha Khoury, MD, MPH
February 27, 2021 17:22 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBIn 2019, Dr. Aysha (i-sha) Khoury (koo-ree) was recruited to become founding faculty at Kaiser Permanente Bernard J Tyson School of Medicine. She developed case-based curricula, implementing flipped classroom and active learning pedagogies. She served as a small group facilitator and Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Champion and Workgroup member. On August 28, 2020, within hours of engaging her small group in a critical discussion on bias and racism in medicine, she was targeted, suspended, ...
Motivational Interviewing for Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy with Joseph Weiner, MD, PhD
February 23, 2021 01:49 - 1 hour - 75 MBDr. Joseph Weiner is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Medicine and Science Education at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, where he co-directs the four-year curriculum in Physician-Patient Communication and Interpersonal Skills. Thinking and writing about how patients and clinicians communicate with each other has been a major interest in his career. He teaches us today about something I’ve been wanting to learn about for a long time. The tagline of this show...
How Do People Make Decisions about Vaccinations with Reyaneh Maktoufi, PhD
February 12, 2021 02:27 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBDr. Reyhaneh Maktoufi has recently defended her Ph.D. in Media, Technology, and Society at Northwestern University. She is a Rita Allen Foundation Civic Science Fellow at WGBH/NOVA. Her main fields of interest are science communication, misinformation, curiosity, public engagement with scientists, and science communication in media. She is a health communications expert turned science communication expert, so we are bringing her back into health communication with another discussion on addre...
Science Communication: SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Edition, with Matthew Facciani, PhD
February 07, 2021 12:14 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBMatthew Facciani, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher at Vanderbilt University in the Medicine, Health, and Society Department. His research interests include LGBTQ health, social networks, political polarization, and misinformation. We discuss science communication and how to find ways to make complicated science easier to understand. This is particularly relevant because of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, so we need to be sure we can effectively communicate how it works and any potential risks. We e...
Consent-Drive Care with Dr. Crystal Beal
February 01, 2021 17:58 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBDr. Crystal Beal is a non-binary femme physician, who provides high-quality, expert, and individualized queer and #genderaffirming medical care through QueerDoc.com. QueerDoc’s mission is to raise the bar and lower the barriers to accessing #genderaffirmingcare. Dr. Beal discusses just how frequent trauma is and how what they call “consent-driven care” is an extension of #traumainformedcare. For more on trauma-informed care, see my episode with Dr. Megan Gerber. As #physicians, we shouldn’...
Consent-Driven Care with Dr. Crystal Beal
February 01, 2021 17:58 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBDr. Crystal Beal is a non-binary femme physician, who provides high-quality, expert, and individualized queer and #genderaffirming medical care through QueerDoc.com. QueerDoc’s mission is to raise the bar and lower the barriers to accessing #genderaffirmingcare. Dr. Beal discusses just how frequent trauma is and how what they call “consent-driven care” is an extension of #traumainformedcare. For more on trauma-informed care, see my episode with Dr. Megan Gerber. As #physicians, we shouldn’...
Legal Issues Around Vaccines from Lawsuits to Mandates with Professor Dorit Reiss, PhD
January 15, 2021 02:12 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBProfessor Dorit Rubinstein Reiss’ undergraduate degree in Law and Political Science is from the Faculty of Law in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. Increasingly, her research and activities are focused on legal and policy issues related to vaccines. She writes about school mandate, policy responses to non-vaccinating, tort issues and administrative issues related to vaccines. She is a member of the Vaccine Working Group on Ethics and Po...
Cognitive Biases in Vaccine Decision Making with Jonathan Howard, MD
January 15, 2021 01:54 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MBJonathan Howard, MD, is double boarded in Neurology and Psychiatry and as he puts it in his Twitter profile, the author of several non-bestselling neurology textbooks. That’s not why he’s being interviewed. He also co-authored a book chapter entitled “The Anti-Vaccine Movement: A Litany of Fallacy and Errors,” in the book Pseudoscience: A Conspiracy Against Science and wrote his own book on fallacy and errors in medicine entitled, Cognitive Errors and Diagnostic Mistakes: A Case-Based Guide ...
Moving the Needle on SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Fence-Sitters with Jordan Harbinger
January 11, 2021 02:22 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBJordan Harbinger is a recovering Wall Street lawyer, turned podcaster. He’s actually been podcasting for longer than we’ve had smart phones. So why would I be asking him about vaccines? I’m not. We’ll get to that. His previous podcast and company focused on dating, but he realized that the skills that they were teaching regarding that specific social interaction actually applied to other aspects of life and so he pivoted his podcast and now his podcast really applies to anyone interested in ...
Deep Listening - Impact Beyond the Exam Room, with Oscar Trimboli
January 04, 2021 00:32 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBOscar Trimboli is passionate about using the gift of listening to bring positive change in homes, workplaces and the world. Through his work with chairs, boards of directors and executive teams in local, regional and global organizations, Oscar has experienced firsthand the transformational impact leaders and organizations can have when they listen beyond the words and he helps us bring this skill into the exam room. He talks about giving attention instead of paying attention, how to frame q...
VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine, Dr. Brennan Spiegel
December 28, 2020 01:43 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBBrennan Spiegel, MD, is director of health-services research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he directs the Center for Outcomes Research and Education, which maintains one of the largest and most widely cited therapeutic virtual reality programs in the world. Spiegel is also professor of medicine and public health at UCLA. He wrote ACING the GI Board Exam, but he’s on the show today to discuss his book, VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics with Revolutionize Medicine. Dr. Spiegel shows how ...
Benefits of the Presence and Consequences of the Absence of DEI with the DEI Shifters
December 23, 2020 01:59 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBThe DEI Shift, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, is a podcast whose mission is to focus on those issues in medicine, spark discussion and provide practice-changing data, stories and useful information to help healthcare practitioners to improve their practices and environments, gain empathy, cultural competency, and humility, and to learn more about emerging D.E.I. concepts. They discuss issues related to gender, race, sexuality, religion, ability, socioeconomics, and so much more. There are ...
Should the Doctor Write a Book? with DocSwiner
December 16, 2020 00:32 - 34 minutes - 31.1 MBDr. Nicole Swiner is a family physician, 6-time best-selling author, blogger, speaker, wife and mother in Durham, North Carolina. How does she do it all? That’s how we start the interview! With her company, Swiner Publishing Company, she helps authors become best-sellers, from start to finish. We talk about why doctors should write books, why they shouldn’t, why they should self-publish and why publishing with her is really self-publishing and organizing events in the age of COVID and after....
Get the Keys to the C-Suite with Sandy Scott
December 08, 2020 17:52 - 42 minutes - 38.4 MBSandy Scott is a physician and executive coach who has coached over 500 physicians and healthcare executives. Sandy’s vision is to transform the lives of all physician leaders into meaningful and high-performing journeys by teaching us the strategies and tactics we need to lead and live with purpose. We discuss how to get to the C-suite and this requires a lot of self-reflection. The key is being able to identify your strengths and playing to those strengths in order to get to a goal that ...
Value-Based Payment Models with Vanessa Guzman
November 30, 2020 01:18 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBVanessa Guzman is the CEO of Smartrise Health, which specializes in all Value-based Payment and Accountable Care organization matters. She helps us make sense of the alphabet soup of acronyms like ACO, MIPS and why the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services is CMS and not CMMS. She defines value by CMS’ three aims: better care for individuals, better health for populations and lower cost. She attempts to shorten the chasm between what we see as useless clicking and how it actually helps...
A Career in Clinical Research with Fabian Sandoval, MD
November 25, 2020 01:17 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBDr. Fabian Sandoval is the CEO & Research Director of the Emerson Clinical Research Institute and has over 25 years of bench to bedside research experience. His diversified research career has been in academia, healthcare systems and the public sector. He received his Bachelors of Science in molecular and cellular biology from Marymount University, and his Doctorate of Medicine from the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, School of Medicine with clerkships through NY Medical College. We...
Democratizing Clinical Trials with Dana Dornsife of Lazarex Cancer Foundation
November 18, 2020 00:50 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBDana Dornsife is a patient-advocate and the founder and CEO of Lazarex Cancer Foundation, a nationwide non-profit organization that seeks to improve the outcome of cancer care - giving hope, dignity, and life to advanced stage cancer patients and the medically underserved by matching patients to clinical trials and providing travel reimbursements to patients for the costs associated with FDA clinical trial participation. Dana founded Lazarex in 2006 after her brother-in-law was diagnosed w...
It's Not About the Food with Stefani Reinold, MD, MPD
November 13, 2020 02:32 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBDr. Stefani Reinold is a board-certified psychiatrist, body image coach, women's mental health expert, and eating disorders specialist. She is the author of the bestselling book, Let Your Heart Out, podcast host of the show, It's Not About the Food, and Creator of the HEART Method: a self-led therapy tool helping with emotional self-awareness and resiliency. She went to medical school at University of Texas at San Antonio and did her residency at George Washington University. Speaking to...
Why Medical Justice is Best Served Cold, with Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD, Part 2
October 27, 2020 17:04 - 27 minutes - 34.8 MBThis is part 2 of my interview with Dr. Jeffrey Segal, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Medical Justice. Dr. Segal is a board-certified neurosurgeon. He was a practicing neurosurgeon for ten years, during which time he also played an active role as a participant on various state-sanctioned medical review panels designed to decrease the incidence of meritless medical malpractice cases. We start this part discussing what services are provided by Medical Justice and then discuss the natio...
Delivering Medical Justice with Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD, Part 1
October 21, 2020 15:25 - 40 minutes - 49.5 MBDr. Jeffrey Segal, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Medical Justice, is a board-certified neurosurgeon. He was a practicing neurosurgeon for ten years, during which time he also played an active role as a participant on various state-sanctioned medical review panels designed to decrease the incidence of meritless medical malpractice cases. We talk about his journey from neurosurgeon to pharmaceutical CEO to lawyer. He gives us a crash course on why patients sue and how to potentially...
Marketing 101 for Physicians and Medical Practices with David Liljegren
October 07, 2020 16:52 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBDavid Liljigren is the COO of ADK America where he leverages nearly three decades of experience in helping healthcare organizations and physicians harness the power of branding and communication to navigate through change and achieve growth. Throughout his career, David has helped such corporations as Hisamitsu Pharmaceuticals, GE Healthcare IT, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, and The Nielsen Company powerfully translate brand strategy into concrete organizational action. We discuss ide...
Prescribing Change with Steve Vargo, OD, MBA
October 07, 2020 16:44 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBSteve Vargo, OD, MBA, is an optometrist and author, who recently published the book, Prescribing Change: How to Make Connections, Influence Decisions and Get Patients to Buy into Change. He wrote this book in order to give clinicians the tools to be more impactful with getting patients to make changes that improve their vision, health, and quality of life. He discusses how to engage our patients through what he calls “non-sale selling” in order to gain their trust in order to influence their...
Hypermobile or Just Bendy with Linda Bluestein, MD
October 01, 2020 00:23 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBDr. Linda Bluestein in the founder and sole proprietor at HypermobilityMD.com and host of the Bendy Bodies Podcast. We discuss how to distinguish hypermobility from a hypermobility disorder. We also discuss common, non-joint related pathologies that those with hypermobility connective tissue disorders may have from POTS syndrome to mast cell instability. At the end, we discuss some case presentations that are near and dear to my heart. Dr. Bluestein is a national, international and invited...
Learning How to Learn with the Medical Mnemonist, Chase DiMarco
September 24, 2020 00:54 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBThis episode is very META. It is about learning how to learn. For the premeds, med students and residents, this is critical. For those of us out and about in the world that need to recertify, this is a reminder that we never knew the best ways to study, so we should learn those techniques now. Chase DiMarco teaches us ideas like visual mnemonics, memory palaces, mind mapping, gamification among others. Chase is an MS, MBA-HA and MD/Ph.D-candidate. He is the Founder and educator at FreeMed...
The Secret to Being a Happy Doc from the Happiest Doc, Taylor Brana, DO
September 15, 2020 00:57 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBDr. Taylor Brana is a Resident Physician 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 burdens, and so much clicking. We discuss the recurring theme...
Hiring and Training Your Medical Practice Staff with Brent Lacey, MD
September 10, 2020 15:28 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBBrent Lacey, MD, is a gastroenterologist with a passion for financial management and career coaching. He was able to pay off all of his student loans before finishing fellowship, and he got a big head start on his retirement savings. He felt God calling him to start teaching financial management classes so he created a Financial Discipleship Ministry at his church and developed a personal finance curriculum for his hospital. He then became certified through Ramsey Solutions as a Master Fi...
Doctor, You've Been Served (Not in a Dance-Off), Part 2, with Gita Pensa, MD
August 27, 2020 15:31 - 31 minutes - 29 MBThis is part 2 of 2 of my discussion with Dr. Gita Pensa, emergency medicine physician and host of the educational podcast, "Doctors and Litigation: The L Word", a narrative-style series about psychological and practical preparation for malpractice litigation. We continue the discussion about how deposition is an audition for the trial and how important it is the play the part of the doctor everyone would want, not an arrogant physician who feels they know the medicine better than everyone....
Doctor, You've Been Served (Not in a Dance-Off), Part 1, with Gita Pensa, MD
August 27, 2020 00:41 - 39 minutes - 35.7 MBDr. Gita Pensa is an Associate Professor with the Brown University Emergency Medicine Residency. She joined Brown's academic faculty in 2014, after thirteen years in community emergency medicine practice. In 2015, she launched Brown EM's educational blog as well as the Brown EM podcast series. She created and serves as host/editor of AEM Early Access, a collaborative podcasting project from the Academic Emergency Medicine journal and the Brown EM residency. Dr. Pensa is Associate Director of...