Latest Medico Podcast Episodes
Thriving in Medicine- Mastering Leadership and Balance
Physician's Weekly Podcast - April 24, 2024 09:00 - 41 minutesDike Drummond, MD (TheHappyMD@PW author) brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in preventing physician burnout through innovative strategies and leadership principles to a lively discussion. Dr. Drummond explores the concept of "leadership power tools," one of the seven healthy habits for ...
Cutting Edge Advances in the Treatment of Lung Cancer
IMPACT Medicom - April 19, 2024 16:00 - 15 minutesIn this episode, Dr. Barbara Melosky discusses cutting edge approaches to the treatment of Lung Cancer, including the use of artificial intelligence and novel therapeutic approaches such as cancer vaccines and new targeted therapies. Our Guest: Dr. Barbara Melosky Dr Melosky is a Professor of M...
Precision Medicine Series: Ep15: Biomarkers in Upper GI Cancers
IMPACT Medicom - April 18, 2024 13:00 - 41 minutesWelcome to our podcast episode on diagnostic, prognostic and predictive biomarkers for the treatment of upper GI cancers. In this episode, Dr Brezden-Masley (medical oncologist) and Dr Streutker (pathologist) discuss the latest biomarkers that may inform treatment of upper GI cancer. Our Guest...
Bringing AI Into Medicine and Keeping It Safe
Safety Net - April 17, 2024 17:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAs artificial intelligence, or AI, takes off in the public sphere, what about medicine? The health care industry has been using some form of AI for decades, yet very recent advancements are upping the ante. This episode of Safety Net presents excerpts from a recent talk to malpractice attorneys b...
What & Why You Need to Know About Value-Based Care
Physician's Weekly Podcast - April 10, 2024 09:00 - 31 minutesPW editorial board member and regular contributor Alex McDonald, MD, speaks with Kim Yu, MD, FAAFP (PRIME National Strategy Consultant, American Board of Family Medicine; Director of Health Care Strategy, KCS Inc.), about new mandates concerning value-based care and what they might mean to you....
Physician Liability & AI, the Checkmate 67T Trial
Physician's Weekly Podcast - March 27, 2024 09:00 - 31 minutesRegular contributor Dr. MedLaw discusses the question many physicians are asking themselves: what are the rules regarding AI use in medicine and physician liability? Also, Saby George, MD, FACP (Roswell Park Cancer Institute), discusses results of the Checkmate 67T trial, which he recently prese...
Management of Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma (cSCC): A Surgeon’s Perspective
IMPACT Medicom - March 25, 2024 16:00 - 24 minutesIn this video capsule, Dr. Mark Taylor discusses the surgical implications for the treatment of cSCC. This podcast episode is best viewed alongside the slides, which can be found in the video capsule version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk5JEUjbkDE&t=127s. Our Guest: Dr. S. Mark Taylor is...
Immunotherapy for Kidney Transplant Patients with Skin Cancer
IMPACT Medicom - March 25, 2024 16:00 - 21 minutesIn this podcast episode, Dr. Evan Lipson discusses the use of immunotherapy for patients with skin cancer who have had a kidney transplant. Our guest: Dr. Lipson is an internationally-recognized skin cancer and immunotherapy specialist at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Lipson leads cutting edge clinical t...
The Benefits of a Trauma-Informed Approach to Practice
Physician's Weekly Podcast - March 13, 2024 09:00 - 26 minutesPW Editorial Board member and columnist Alex McDonald, MD (family and sprots medicine, Kaiser Permanente), speaks with Erika Roshanravan, MD (family physician and medical director, CommuniCare+OLE), about trauma-informed care and the need to shift the focus in patient conversations from “What’s ...
How Will the 2024 Presidential Election Affect Healthcare?
Physician's Weekly Podcast - February 28, 2024 10:00 - 28 minutes“Healthcare is at a very delicate moment,” says Jeanne Haggerty, a lobbyist for Williams & Jensen in Washington DC. With 25 years of governmental affairs experience in Washington, she should know. Haggerty’s successful career on the Hill has included working on the Senate Finance Committee, and ...
A Net to Catch Patients at Risk of Falling Through the Cracks
Safety Net - February 14, 2024 17:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe Harvard teaching hospitals and their affiliated institutions have banded together to tackle one of the most difficult and deadly challenges that face all health care providers: clinical tests and specialty referrals that are lost to follow-up. Anecdotal evidence already shows patients who we...
Regain Your Grip On the Work You Love
Physician's Weekly Podcast - February 14, 2024 10:00 - 33 minutesRegular contributor Dike Drummond, MD, (family physician, CEO of TheHappyMD.com, PW columnist) talks about the difference between your job and your medical practice, recognizing the fact that they are almost never attuned. More importantly, he provides critical tools to mend the bridge and regai...
Beating Medical Mistrust, Responsibility for Another Doctor’s Actions
Physician's Weekly Podcast - January 31, 2024 10:00 - 31 minutesSara Gorman, PhD, MPH, discusses the work she does as executive director of Those Nerdy Girls, along with a group who provide evidence-based answers to common medical questions in order to battle medical mistrust and misinformation. Dr. Gorman is also the founder of Critica, non-profit organizat...
LGBTQ+ Healthcare: What You Should Know
Physician's Weekly Podcast - January 17, 2024 10:00 - 29 minutesPhysician’s Weekly editorial Board member Alex McDonald, MD, CAQSM, FAAFP (Kaiser Permanente), speaks with Scott Nass, MD, MPA, FAAFP, AAHIVS (Aledade), about LGBTQ+ healthcare. Since 2019, Dr. Nass has served as Chief Medical Officer for the transgender community-founded and -led Transgender He...
Anticipated Medical Breakthroughs of 2024
Physician's Weekly Podcast - January 03, 2024 10:00 - 25 minutesThe medical field is constantly evolving, with innovative advancements revolutionizing the way we diagnose, treat, and prevent diseases. As we move into 2024, there are numerous promising developments that hold the potential to significantly impact healthcare and improve the lives of individuals...
Alert on Surgical Items Left Behind in Patients
Safety Net - December 30, 2023 17:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn late 2023, the Academic Medical Center Patient Safety Organization issued an advisory noting a spike in reports of retained surgical items. A retained surgical item is patient safety lingo for when the surgical team leaves something like a sponge or a tool inside the patient after surgery. Th...
Incidental Lung Nodule Overlooked, No Follow-up, Fatal Cancer Advances
MedMal Insider - December 30, 2023 17:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsA patient was imaged for abdominal pain, but the radiologist saw and reported an incidental finding of a nodule on the lower lung that was not pursued or revealed to the patient for 2 years. The cancer had metastasized, and the patient died from lung cancer 18 months later.
Top 10 Medical Innovations of 2023
Physician's Weekly Podcast - December 20, 2023 10:00 - 28 minutesPW Podcast host Rachel Giles, MD, and PW editorial board member Alex McDonald, MD, offer their perspectives on what they feel are the top 10 medical innovations of 2023. Some are already in practice, whereas others are recent breakthroughs not quite ready for “prime time.” All in all, it was a g...
LIVE FROM ASH 2023: Isa-CYBORD induction chemotherapy in newly diagnosed, transplant eligible MM
IMPACT Medicom - December 18, 2023 14:00 - 16 minutesIn this podcast episode, Dr. Rami Kotb and Dr. Donna Reece discuss results of the CMRG Isa-CYBORD trial presented at the ASH 2023 meeting, and the implications of the results for Canadian clinical practice. Our Guests: Dr. Rami Kotb is a physician in the Division of Hematology, Department of Me...
The PSA Test Controversy, Doctor Vs Insurer on Settlements
Physician's Weekly Podcast - December 13, 2023 10:00 - 26 minutesIn a lively discussion, E. David Crawford, MD (University of Colorado), explains the controversy around prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test screening. The National Cancer Institute describes the PSA controversy as follows: “Using the PSA test to screen men for prostate cancer is controversial b...
Live from ASH 2023: Dr Brown Discusses Updated Results of the ALPINE Trial in CLL
IMPACT Medicom - December 07, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutesIn this episode of our podcast, recorded at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) in San Diego, California, we discuss updated results of the ALPINE trial with Dr. Jennifer Brown. The ALPINE trial examined the efficacy and safety of zanubrutinib versus ibrutinib for the treatment of CLL. O...
Medical Communication to the Masses: The TikTok College Doc
Physician's Weekly Podcast - December 06, 2023 10:00 - 31 minutesPhysician’s Weekly’s editorial Board member Alex McDonald, MD, FAAFP, speaks with Jill Grimes, MD (best known as @tiktokcollegedoc), about hercommitment to empowering individuals with accurate medical information and practical advice that has made her a respected figure in the field of healthcar...
Higher Malpractice Risk with Advanced Practice Providers? Data Say Not Really
Safety Net - November 29, 2023 17:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe topline data from Candello claims analysis do not show an increase in malpractice corresponding to the increased use of APPs. In fact, the claims rate may be declining, adjusting for practice population increases.
Time to Quit Your Practice? Probably Not
Physician's Weekly Podcast - November 29, 2023 10:00 - 32 minutesThis week, we take the time to delve into the important topic of physician burnout with our single guest, Dike Drummond, MD, family physicians and CEO of TheHappyMD.com. In this first episode of a series of in-depth conversations, Dr. Drummond speaks with us about how and when to quit your pract...
Know Your Lemons, Is it Negligence if a Patient Falls in the Waiting Room?
Physician's Weekly Podcast - November 15, 2023 10:00 - 29 minutesThe Know Your Lemons Foundation was founded in 2014 by Corrine Ellsworth-Beaumont, MA, PhD, a designer who lost her grandmothers and a close friend to breast cancer. She created the #knowyourlemons campaign as an initiative to help improve early detection of breast cancer through symptoms and sc...
Medicare’s First 10 Negotiable Drugs, Chatbots in Your Practice?
Physician's Weekly Podcast - November 08, 2023 10:00 - 31 minutesDigital health expert Patty Riskind (CEO, Orbita) digs into three main barriers physicians may perceive in incorporating chatbots into their practice. Virtual assistants, such as chatbots, have changed the way businesses operate, and how people navigate their day-to-day tasks. From making travel...
Medical School: Time of Paralysis or Privilege?
Physician's Weekly Podcast - November 01, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutesCaryssa Lim, MPH, a third-year medical student at Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, talks with PW editorial board member Alex McDonald, MD, about whether medical school can/should be looked at as a time of despair and paralysis or the best opportunity of a lifetime to affect...
First-line treatment strategies for the management of la/mUC: S2 Ep 5 - ESMO 2023: Discussion on 1L LA/mUC
IMPACT Medicom - October 26, 2023 19:00 - 32 minutesIn this video capsule series, we discuss the first-line treatment strategies for the management of locally advanced metastatic urothelial carcinoma in Canada. This fifth episode of the series was recorded live from ESMO 2023 with Dr. Thomas Powles, who presented results of the EV-302 trial, and...
A Remarkable Story of Breast Cancer Survival
Physician's Weekly Podcast - October 25, 2023 09:00 - 26 minutesHeather Raymond shares her remarkable story of breast cancer survival, following a diagnosis while working at Kaiser Permanente in 2021, with PW editorial board member Alex McDonald, MD. They discuss the importance of screening and how to talk with patients, because awareness in October isn’t en...
How to Handle Subpoenas, What Exactly Is Regenerative Medicine?
Physician's Weekly Podcast - October 18, 2023 09:00 - 30 minutesCambrian Liu, PhD (University of Chicago), explains regenerative medicine and what it can mean for patients. He tells us about how his lab focusses on cells that can travel from another organ into the colon when tissue there is damaged by inflammatory bowel disease. Also, regular contributor Dr....
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