DocWorking: The Whole Physician Podcast

“But if you step back and you’re the parent, what do you want to teach that kid? You want to teach the kid that it’s ok to fall. So, when the kid falls, you smile and say ‘Oops! That was fun, you’re ok buddy! Let’s do it again!’ Right? And that’s what you’re doing to your brain. Because your brain is looking to you; your brain is giving you pain and you’re either freaking out or you’re going ‘Oops...

“Feeling like they can’t do enough for their patients, or that they’re falling short with their patients, (that) they’re disappointing their patients. And as you know, physicians can be very perfectionistic, want to fix things, and I often work with them on what are realistic expectations when you are in a rural setting.” -Mary Wolf, MS, LPC-MH, BCC Master Certified Coach Mary Wolf, president of V...

“There is no perfect job that will find you because you have to know what you’re looking for and either find that or create that.” -John Mehall MD, MBA, FACS, FAC   Our guest, Dr. John Mehall, Chief Medical Officer for Curative/Doximity, talks with cohost and CEO of DocWorking, Dr. Jen Barna, about how he came to start his own company to help physicians find their ideal work-life balance. Dr. John...

“Everyone just kind of accepts it like, ‘Yeah, I’m that way too. I can’t relax on the weekends, I can’t wind down. I can’t let it go.’ There’s a cultural bravado behind that. I want to call bull on that.“ - Jill Farmer, Master Certified Coach & Lead Coach at DocWorking       When you’re at work, you are in pedal to the metal mode, and to be good at what you do, you need to be able to perform? Do y...

“I get to be that voice that helps you really be more in tune with who you are because I believe that every single one of us has the brain and the character to be multiple seven figure net worths, easily as physicians.” -Dr. Latifat Akintade, Gastroenterologist and Coach at MoneyFitMD   Need to start talking about student debt, but don’t know where to start? Today on DocWorking: The Whole Physicia...

“One day I was doing awake brain surgery on patients with tumors in eloquent parts of their brain and the next week I literally was working in a truck stop, bequeathed to my mother, heavily mortgaged in Wheeling, West Virginia in the dead of winter. I was filling up 18-wheelers, flipping hamburgers, and wondering, how in the world did this happen to me?”  -Dr. Joseph Maroon, Clinical Professor and...

“If a physician is empowered to turn to their highest strengths, whatever they are, if it’s teamwork or creativity, they are empowered to be themselves in their practice, which can kind of manage burnout too. Because burnout can happen if we’re completely pushing down all of the qualities that uplift us and energize us naturally. - Ryan M. Niemiec, Psy. D. For today’s episode, Master Certified Coa...

“What are you starting to do now to ensure that your organization will appeal to who you’re going to need in the future, so that you can attract them at the time that you need them?” -Bernie Frazier, SPHR   Today Master Certified Coach Jill Farmer talks with Bernie Frazier, talent acquisition expert. Bernie is an author, speaker, and career coach/strategist.  She spent almost 25 years leading corp...

“The impact of stress on the body is well known going back to the research of Hans Selye and the general adaptation syndrome, that when organisms are under prolonged stress and inescapable stress, the body begins to break down in predictable ways.” -Dr. James F. Zender In today’s episode, Dr. Jen Barna welcomes Dr. James F. Zender to the podcast. Dr. Zender is a clinical psychologist, certified br...

“The shifts that they needed to make were not as hard as their overwhelmed and burned out brain was telling them it was going to be. They just needed support and a new way of thinking and some new ideas to walk them through the process when they were at that level of feeling so overwhelmed and burned out.”- Master Certified Life Coach Jill Farmer  In today’s episode, Hosts Dr. Jen Barna and Master...

“Carriers want to see an independent party prescribing the medication, not the person that the client is married to.” - Anjali Singh   In episode 170, Dr. Jen Barna welcomes Anjali Singh back to the podcast. Anjali is a Certified Financial Planner and Financial Advisor and a Trusted Resource at DocWorking . Here she tells some real life stories that really exemplify how your personal medical recor...

“I think experiencing contentment is really about savoring the moment of joy or happiness when you’re in it.” -Victoria Silas MD Lead Coach at DocWorking, Jill Farmer and Coach Victoria Silas MD get together to discuss the real meaning of contentment and techniques you can use to feel joy in your life every day. What is contentment? How does contentment differ from complacency? These questions and...

“Real experts are wrong and will admit that they’re wrong. Actually one of the ways that you can identify an expert is, you can search them admitting to being wrong at some point in time. Because, you know, people who are never wrong aren’t experts, they’re jerks.” - Dr. Mark Hoofnagle  In episode 168, Master Certified Coach Jill Farmer welcomes Dr. Mark Hoofnagle to the podcast. Dr. Hoofnagle is...

“Each week is definitely a new week and I think that has kept me going in my clinical role, having those interests outside of what I traditionally do.” - Dr. Kevin Pho of KevinMD   In episode 167, Dr. Jen Barna welcomes Dr. Kevin Pho of KevinMD to the podcast. Dr. Pho is a practicing, board-certified internal medicine physician, a national media commentator , co-author of the book, Establishing, M...

“Knowing your vulnerabilities makes you able to yield before breaking down, so that is the whole idea of Tai Chi.” - Dr. Zibin Guo For episode 166, Master Certified Coach, Jill Farmer welcomes Dr. Zibin Guo to the podcast! Dr. Zibin Guo is a professor in medical anthropology at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga and a Tai Chi Chuan Master. He specializes in Applied Medical Anthropology with a...

“Come to us, let us help you figure out what the value of your product is so that when you take it back to market you can be successful.” -Dr. Brian D. Rothstein   In this episode, Dr. Jen Barna welcomes Dr. Brian Rothstein to the podcast. Brian D Rothstein, MD is the Director of Pediatric Skull Base and Neuro-oncologic Surgery at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, and the Director of Neurosu...

“All of us need that ability to put ourselves on the list of people we take care of.” -Dr. David Clarke   In episode 164, we hear part two of Dr. Jen Barna’s fascinating interview with Dr. David Clarke. In the second part of this interview, Dr. Clarke explains why self care is so very important in our lives. He also highlights the importance of processing our feelings in order to prevent and/or tr...

“One physician who learned these ideas told me at a conference that it had put the joy back into her work. So, it really can turn a practice around to learn how to do this.” -Dr. David Clarke   In episode 163, Dr. Jen Barna welcomes Dr. David Clarke to the podcast! Dr. Clarke is a gastroenterologist, President of the Psychophysiologic Disorders Association and author of They Can’t Find Anything Wr...

“These are all ways of sort of clarifying and tailoring things so that the mind doesn’t run rampant all over the place and waste your energy and your time.” -Madelaine Claire Weiss LICSW, MBA, BCC In episode 162, Master Certified Coach Jill Farmer welcomes Licensed Psychotherapist and Board-Certified Executive Coach Madelaine Claire Weiss LICSW, MBA, BCC to the podcast to discuss how to make decis...

“When physicians and healthcare workers get clear on what is in their control and what is truly out of their control, it can be one of the most empowering things they do.” -Master Certified Coach Jill Farmer In this episode, DocWorking Founder and CEO, Dr. Jen Barna and Lead Coach at DocWorking , Jill Farmer, team up to walk us through five key concepts that open our minds to new possibilities tha...

“There was no talk about physician wellness or burnout or any of that and I did not see any other options. In part, because I didn’t ask for help.” -Diane W. Shannon, MD, MPH, ACC In this episode, Master Certified Coach Jill Farmer welcomes Dr. Diane Shannon to the podcast. Dr. Diane Shannon is the co-author of Preventing Physician Burnout: Curing the Chaos and Returning Joy to the Practice of Med...

“You know, after the drug gets approved, it’s a feather in your cap. You have been part of an NDA, that’s great. Your value goes up. But after that, what do you do?” -Neil Sankar MD, MPH In this episode, DocWorking Founder and CEO, Dr. Jen Barna welcomes Dr. Neil Sankar. Dr. Sankar is President and Chief Medical Officer of SwanBio, LLC, a business development consultancy firm that facilitates the...

“For me, the beauty of diabetes was that it was the anchor but it allowed me to explore so many different areas of research and interest.” -Robert A. Gabbay, MD, PhD   In episode 158 of the podcast, we welcome Dr. Robert Gabbay. Dr. Gabbay is Chief Scientific and Medical Officer of the American Diabetes Association and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. DocWorking Founder and CEO, Dr....

“She couldn’t even buy a hairbrush. So, we took her on and we did her billing and caught up all that back billing. A few months later, I went back and I said, ‘I don’t see your minivan outside.’ She had this broken down little minivan that she was driving around. And she looked at me and she said, ‘Girl, I just bought a brand new crossover SUV!’” -Jam Fleming of Accurate Medical Billing In this ep...

“This is why in coaching we talk so much about how important it is to stay connected to your purpose and your values. Because this is something you can return to in times of crisis and it will get you through.” -Victoria Silas, MD   In this episode, Master Certified Coach, Jill Farmer and Certified Coach, Victoria Silas, MD discuss why being a doctor is so difficult right now. During this discussi...