Physician's Guide to Doctoring with Bradley B. Block, MD
370 episodes - English - Latest episode: 25 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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Social Entrepreneurship, Melanin & Medicine with Omolara Uwemedimo, MD, MPH
February 11, 2022 06:00 - 30 minutes - 18.9 MBOmolara Thomas Uwemedimo, MD, MPH, is a business development and funding coach for women of color in healthcare and serial entrepreneur, growing 2 companies to multi-six figures in revenue in less than 18 months. During her intrapreneurial career as a pediatrician for over 15 years, researcher & professor for over a decade, she secured $2 million in grant funding and has led inter-professional teams to build and scale healthcare delivery and research programs to achieve health equity for mar...
Part 2: When and How to Discuss a Patient's Weight with Stephanie Sogg, PhD
February 04, 2022 06:00 - 21 minutes - 13.3 MBBack for her second appearance is Dr. Stephanie Sogg, a clinical psychologist from the MGH Weight Center where she has treated patients with obesity at the MGH Weight Center since 2003. One our previous episode, we discussed the importance of language when discussing someone’s weight, so on this episode, we talk about when and how to bring it up. We talk about how body acceptance is actually important to sustained weight loss, although on the surface it may seem like a contradiction. We talk...
Part 1: When and How to Discuss a Patient's Weight with Stephanie Sogg, PhD
January 28, 2022 06:00 - 26 minutes - 16.7 MBBack for her second appearance is Dr. Stephanie Sogg, a clinical psychologist who has been at the MGH Weight Center since 2003. One our previous episode, we discussed the importance of language when discussing someone’s weight, so on this episode, we talk about when and how to bring it up. We talk about how body acceptance is actually important to sustained weight loss, although on the surface it may seem like a contradiction. We talk about the influence of sleep, mental health, and when it ...
Is an Apology a Declaration of Negligence? with T. Marc Calvert, JD
January 21, 2022 06:00 - 37 minutes - 21.1 MBT. Marc Calvert, J.D. founded Calvert & Associates in 1996. His goal has always been to provide the highest quality of legal service to those who ask for his help. I asked for his help regarding what to say to a patient when you have a complication. Do we apologize? Not apologize? How much information do we disclose? We were introduced by Gita Pensa, an emergency medicine physician at Brown and the creator of the podcast Doctors and Litigation: The L Word. This is essential list...
Private Equity in Private Practice, Protector or Pillager? with AJ Shekar and Scott Davis of Provident Healthcare Partners
January 14, 2022 06:00 - 35 minutes - 20 MBProvident Healthcare Partners is an healthcare specific investment banking firm whose services include mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financing, and strategic advisory. On today’s show, we have Directors AJ Shekar and Scott Davis. AJ is responsible for business development and deal execution across a range of healthcare services industries. During his tenure, he has advised dozens of companies that are considering strategic alternatives including strategic mergers and private equi...
Wearing a Hijab in the OR with Deena Kishawi, MD
January 07, 2022 06:00 - 37 minutes - 23 MBDeena Kishawi, MD, is a Chicago-based OBGyn resident physician who is particularly interested in health outcomes that are unique to Middle Easterners and North Africans residing in the United States. With her fluency in the Arabic language, her research with Muslim patients in healthcare, and her work with immigrant, refugee, and first-generation communities in Chicago, she is currently conducting research on these populations and is working towards training and educating healthcare provider...
Pt 2 : Private Equity: Savior or Existential Threat with Otolaryngologists Drs. William Blythe and Drew Locandro
December 31, 2021 06:00 - 27 minutes - 16.9 MBIn many situations, when private equity comes calling, the owners of the practice are close to retirement and they are offered more money than they’d ever get from another physician buying into the practice. My practice has been approached by private equity twice. I’m in my early 40s, so the decision to sell is a lot more complicated. We didn’t ultimately sell, but while negotiations were taking place, I was concerned, but wasn’t sure if my concerns were valid or if I was even considering th...
Part 1: Private Equity: Savior or Existential Threat with Otolaryngologists Drs. William Blythe and Drew Locandro
December 24, 2021 06:00 - 26 minutes - 17.4 MBIn many situations, when private equity comes calling, the owners of the practice are close to retirement and they are offered more money than they’d ever get from another physician buying into the practice. My practice has been approached by private equity twice. I’m in my early 40s, so the decision to sell is a lot more complicated. We didn’t ultimately sell, but while negotiations were taking place, I was concerned, but wasn’t sure if my concerns were valid or if I was even considering th...
Can Venture Capital Give You Tinnitus with Navin Goyal, MD, of LOUD Capital
December 17, 2021 06:00 - 43 minutes - 25.1 MBNavin Goyal, M.D. is a physician and entrepreneur who serves as CEO of LOUD Capital, an early-stage venture capital and alternative investment firm leveraging capital, entrepreneurship, and education to grow impactful companies across the globe. Bringing his physician training to do good for people, Navin strives to make venture capital more purpose-driven, inclusive, and impactful. Before co-founding LOUD Capital, Navin practiced anesthesiology in a large hospital-based setting and was the ...
Confidently Opine as a Medical Expert Witnesses with Amy Fogelman, MD
December 10, 2021 06:00 - 36 minutes - 23.4 MBAmy G. Fogelman, MD is Board Certified in Internal Medicine with 17 years of experience seeing patients at ambulatory practices in the Boston area. She went to med school at BU and stayed in Boston for her internal medicine residency at Beth Israel. She did a chief year in Primary Care at the VA Hospital in West Roxbury. She has been awarded prizes in clinical excellence and leadership at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). While consulting for personal injury and medical malpractic...
Hacking the Placebo Effect with Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, MS
December 03, 2021 06:00 - 39 minutes - 22.1 MBLuana Colloca, MD, Ph.D., MS, is a physician-scientist, professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, Director of the TL1 program, Chair of the Pain and Placebo Special Interest Group for the International Association for Study of Pain Society (IASP), and steering member and treasurer for the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies of Placebo (SIPS). Prof. Colloca holds an MD, a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, and a masters in Bioethics. She completed a post-doc training at the Karolinska I...
You Must Start Practicing in Australasian Now with Carmen Brown, MD
November 26, 2021 06:00 - 36 minutes - 22.5 MBCarmen Brown, MD, is an author, blogger, practicing OB-GYN, and managing partner and founder of ExpatMD. She currently resides in Melbourne, Australia with her husband and young son. We talk about how she ended up practicing down-under, how to make it happen, what some of the differences about practicing down there and focused a bit on practice of OB-GYN. She dispelled some myths about limitations to practicing abroad and we discussed a little about what it’s like being a black woman in down...
Medicine, Marriage, and Money with Kate Mangona, MD
November 19, 2021 06:00 - 25 minutes - 16.8 MBKate Mangona, MD, began practicing as a board-certified pediatric radiologist in 2015 after completing a 6-year medical school program at The University of Missouri-Kansas City, Radiology Residency at Beaumont Health System in Royal Oak, MI, and Pediatric Radiology Fellowship at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. Dr. Mangona is a supportive physician’s wife and mother to three little girls and a mini poodle. She and her husband Victor, a pediatric radiation oncologist and ta...
Healthcare Leaders, Are You Listening? with Diane Shannon, MD
November 12, 2021 06:00 - 33 minutes - 18.1 MBAfter experiencing paralyzing burnout as a newly-minted primary care physician, Dr. Diane Shannon made the hard decision to leave practice and pursue a career in writing. Her focus for 20 years has been drawing attention to ways to address clinician burnout, system inefficiency, and patient safety problems. She is co-author of Preventing Physician Burnout: Curing the Chaos and Returning Joy to the Practice of Medicine, which was published in 2016. Her personal experience with burnout and h...
Guiding Patients Through Challenging Decisions with Talya Miron-Shatz, PhD
November 05, 2021 05:00 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBTalya Miron-Shatz, PhD, is a leader in research at the intersection of medicine and behavioral economics. She is professor and founding Director of the Center for Medical Decision Making at Ono Academic College in Israel, senior fellow at the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest in New York, and a visiting researcher at the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge. Miron-Shatz was a post-doctoral researcher at Princeton University, and a lecturer...
Motivational Interviewing in the Vaccine Hesitant with Joseph Weiner, MD, Ph.D., Part 2
October 31, 2021 05:00 - 29 minutes - 18.6 MBI’m re-releasing this episode because of how critical it is. In my quest to be taught how best to have a fruitful discussion with those hesitant about the vaccine, I interviewed two science communicators, a social engineer, a lawyer, an expert in cognitive biases, and a motivational interview and of all of those, the last one was the most powerful tool for moving the needle on those hesitant to get the vaccine. Motivational interviewing comes from addiction medicine, but using it for vacc...
Motivational Interviewing in the Vaccine Hesitant with Joseph Weiner, MD, Ph.D., Part 1
October 26, 2021 19:27 - 49 minutes - 31.2 MBI’m re-releasing this episode because of how critical it is. In my quest to be taught how best to have a fruitful discussion with those hesitant about the vaccine, I interviewed two science communicators, a social engineer, a lawyer, an expert in cognitive biases, and a motivational interview and of all of those, the last one was the most powerful tool for moving the needle on those hesitant to get the vaccine. Motivational interviewing comes from addiction medicine, but using it for vacc...
Learn to Make Your Patients Laugh with Scott Dikkers of The Onion
October 19, 2021 10:00 - 45 minutes - 24.1 MBLast month marked the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Two weeks after that tragic day, The Onion, the famed comedy newspaper, put out an issue with jokes about 9/11. How did they do that? Scott Dikkers, one of The Onion’s founders teaches us how. His rule is that comedy is meant to “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.” That’s why they put out that issue. To comfort the afflicted. As physicians, that’s what we do! How can we be funny, even in the face of tragedy? Mr. Dikkers teaches...
Harness the Power of Language When Discussing Weight with Stephanie Sogg, PhD
October 10, 2021 17:52 - 57 minutes - 30.4 MBThis was one of my favorite interviews. I was a fledgling podcaster at the time when I interviewed Dr. Stephanie Sogg, a clinical psychologist at the Harvard Weight Center. She had been quoted in an article in the Huffington Post that lambasted physicians for not knowing how to talk to our patients about their weight. Interviews like this were the reason why I started podcasting. I emailed her and asked her if she could teach us the right way to have these discussions and she agreed! Talki...
Don't Make Vertigo a Dizzying Diagnostic Dilemma
October 08, 2021 17:27 - 58 minutes - 34.3 MBThis episode is going to flip the script. I’m going to be the one interviewed. I was interviewed by Dr. Indu Partha, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tuscon, on her podcast, The Ajo Way, Primary Care Pearls from South Campus. We talked about dizziness. If you are an otolaryngologist like me, you can stop listening now, but for everyone else who finds dizziness to be mystifying, this will be a good primer to understanding otologic causes of di...
Stop Screwing Around and Get Your Charts Done! with Junaid Niazi, MD, of Prosperous Life MD
September 29, 2021 09:39 - 38 minutes - 29.9 MBDr. Junaid Niazi is a board-certified internist and pediatrician who works as a primary care physician for a large healthcare organization in the upper Midwest by day and by night he’s known as Prosperous Life MD. He is a physician life coach and he blogs and coaches physicians on all things wellness, productivity, finances, and careers. He also has a group coaching program to help physicians complete their charting at work and that’s why he’s on the show today. His interest in charting also...
Physician Contract Negotiation: Know Your Worth And Ask For What You Deserve with Linda Street, MD
September 22, 2021 17:12 - 33 minutes - 21.1 MBDr. Linda Street is a board-certified Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist and Life Coach who focuses specifically on Physician Negotiations. She is the Founder & CEO of Simply Street MD Negotiation Coaching where she helps female physicians take charge of their lives and negotiate for the salary they deserve. She lives and breathes to close the gender gap, starting with you! She also hosts the Simply Worth It podcast where she discusses physician contract negotiations. Find her at www.simpl...
How to Use Coaching and Community to Your Advantage with Jen Barna, MD, of Docworking
September 12, 2021 05:00 - 33 minutes - 22 MBJen Barna, MD, is a board-certified practicing radiologist, and founder and CEO of DocWorking, a company that helps physicians achieve their best in life and medicine by providing expert coaching, courses, and other resources in the form of a subscription called DocWorking THRIVE. Jen and the two lead coaches at DocWorking, Gabriella Dennery, MD, and Master Certified Coach Jill Farmer, started DocWorking: The Whole Physician Podcast in February 2021, now ranked as a top physician podcast. ...
Physician Charting Coaching - Strategies to Save Time, Improve Efficiency, And Get More Done!
September 06, 2021 05:00 - 35 minutes - 23 MBDr. Sarah Smith is a family physician and charting coach. She specializes in helping physicians with our charting backlog so we can get home on time without the looming cloud of unfinished charts and callbacks. We discuss how to add efficiency to your day by making sure you are laser focused on your patient and you aren’t finished until that chart is closed. This frees up mental space for the next patient, making that visit a bit more efficient. By the end of your morning, have a plan for...
Interrogate Your Patients - Forensic Interview Techniques for Physicians with Michael Reddington, CFI
August 29, 2021 09:49 - 40 minutes - 24.6 MBMichael Reddington, CFI is a certified forensic interviewer and the President of InQuasive, Inc., a company that integrates the key components of effective non-confrontational interview techniques with current business research for executives. Using his background in forensics, and his understanding of human behavior through interrogation, Reddington teaches businesses to use the truth to their advantage. And now he’s teaching it to physicians. We first learn what a forensic interviewer ...
COVID in Kids - How to Assess Risk and Avoid Cognitive Illusions
August 27, 2021 05:00 - 52 minutes - 40.9 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. H wrote his own book on fallacy and errors in medicine entitled, Cognitive Errors and Diagnostic Mistakes: A Case-Based Guide to Critical Thinking in Medicine. I keep trying to interview him about the book and he keeps changing the subject! In the last interview, we discussed cognitive bi...
Practicing Principles of Persuasion with Patients with Omar M. Khateeb of Gentem Health
August 18, 2021 05:00 - 50 minutes - 36.6 MBOmar M. Khateeb is a marketing leader based in Silicon Valley. He actually started out going to med school before going into marketing. He has developed marketing strategies at two publicly traded surgical robotic companies through their IPOs as well as co-founded and successfully launched a consumer product for men’s fashion. Having successfully crowdfunded and launched a consumer product, Omar brings his knowledge of B2C marketing through digital channels to a B2B world. His areas of focus...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Zoom Presentations
August 08, 2021 05:00 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBScott J. Allen, Ph.D., is the Dr. James S. Reid Chair in Management at John Carroll University. He is an associate professor and teaches courses in leadership, management skills, and executive communication. He is also a communications coach, consultant, author, podcast host, and entrepreneur. For almost two decades, he’s worked with clients to improve their leadership and communication skills. Maria Soriano Young, M.A. is a Communication Manager for the Chair of the Heart, Vascular, & Tho...
What Promises Does Your Brand Make to Patients With Nate Brown
August 05, 2021 15:59 - 58 minutes - 40.7 MBNate Brown is a perpetual student of the world’s greatest experiences and the people who create them. Having spent the first decade of this career managing a complex technical support environment for Occupational Health and eLearning software, Nate transitioned to Customer Experience 2015. After authoring The CX Primer, Brown was dubbed the “CX Influencer of the Year” by CloudCherry in 2019, and a top global CX thought leader by over half a dozen organizations and associations. As a passion ...
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...