Girl Doc Survival Guide

Join me in a casual conversation with Dr. Misha Rosenbach, where we cover games, emotional intelligence, diagnosis, doing your best, and mention some great books ( Think Again ; Thinking, Fast and Slow ; Children of Time ; Stolen Focus ). Dr. Misha Rosenbach, MD is Vice Chair of Education, Director of the Cutaneous Sarcoidosis and Granulomatous Disease Clinic, Dermatology Residency Program Directo...

Dr. Jennifer Stein is an expert in dermoscopy and diagnosis of melanocytic lesions. she is a mother as well as physician and shares her tips on continuous improvement. Dr. Jennifer Stein, MD PhD is a native New Yorker who grew up in Staten Island. She was an NYU medical student as well as dermatology resident, and she has been on the faculty at NYU Medical School since 2008. She specializes in mel...

Given the concept of emotions being OURS (OUtside of us, Relational, and Situational), work culture, home culture, national culture, gender culture...all of these cultural settings are relevant to how we individually do emotions. We can be more resonant with each other, and Dr. Batja Mesquita explains what this means and how we can do it.  Dr. Batja Mesquita is the author of Between Us: How Cultur...

Emotions are OURS (OUtside of us, Relational, and Situational), rather than MINE (Mental, INside of us, and Essential; essential meaning always the same) (as in the movie Inside Out ). The concept of emotions as OURS has revolutionized my thinking about emotions and how I do my emotions! Dr. Batja Mesquita is the author of Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions . A social psychologist, an affect...

Dr. Arnaud de la Fouchardiere is a leading expert in melanocytic lesions. His papers are always illuminating, and he has a YouTube channel dedicated to teaching, with some videos related to his Non-Artificial Intelligence in Pathology , whereby he shows a classic example and then has a video where one can channel deliberate practice and look at more examples. Dr. Arnaud de la Fouchardiere, MD PhD...

Join us for Part 2 of my conversation with Dr. Shapiro, where we focus more on metacognition - being aware of how you think and learn. Dr. Shapiro was mentored by Dr. Bernie Ackerman and shares some key practices he learned through that relationship. Dr. Philip E. Shapiro is a dermatopathologist and dermatologist in Meriden, Connecticut who founded Dermatopathology Laboratory of New England. He pr...

I've known Dr. Shapiro for more than 15 years. Join our conversation to hear about how he thinks about emotional intelligence and who thinks they have a D vs an F (not that it is a competition!)! We touch on two tennis greats, John Newcombe and Roger Federer, as well as what a ditch has to do with emotional intelligence. Dr. Philip E. Shapiro is a dermatopathologist and dermatologist in Merid...

Dr. Esther Freeman started learning about outbreaks around the kitchen table! As a trained epidemiologist and dermatologist, she has become an "inadvertent" outbreak dermatologist during the COVID-19 pandemic. She shares her experience with emotions across cultures, the value of hard work in dermatology (and life), and a story about the refrigerator. Dr. Esther Freeman, MD PhD DTM&H...

Dr. H. Peter Soyer is a thoughtful voice in dermatology and dermatopathology who has been studying many different important issues like overdiagnosis and the utility of Fitzpatrick skin typing as a cancer risk factor. He also relates that emotional intelligence has been key throughout his career. Dr. H. Peter Soyer has over 30 years of experience in dermatology. He obtained his medical degree at t...

"The most important parts of life come from being able to access an emotional landscape." This quote from Brian Ferguson is in this episode, part 2 of my conversation with Brian, and if that doesn't tempt you to listen, we talk about skills that will help you be more physiologically, physically, and emotionally present. Brian Ferguson has built his career in high-performance organiz...

How to be a little bit less, just a little bit less, worried or stressed? Try the physiologic sigh. In Part 1 of my conversation with Brian Ferguson , we cover Brian's take on interoception, deliberate practice, and the growth mindset. Interoception is the bedrock of elite performance, according to Brian and his team at Arena Strive / Arena Labs . Interoception helps you become intentional wi...

Summary episode! Some themes...CONNECT! HAVE GOOD RELATIONSHIPS! USE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE TO CREATE THEM! SELF-CARE IS IMPORTANT! To save you time, if you missed any of these, each name is hyperlinked back to the relevant episodes. Thank you to Drs. Dirk Elston , Philip LeBoit , David Caruso , Henry Yang , Marie Angele Theard , Kevin Pho , Itiel Dror , Casey Schukow, Will Bynum , Gabriel Robles...

If you care about work culture, having different perspectives, and the relationships in your life, listen in to Dr. Thomas Helm as he shares a bit about how he has managed to prioritize in his own life. Dr. Thomas Helm, MD has been Chair of the Department of Dermatology since 2017 and Director of Dermatopathology at Buffalo Medical Group since 1994. He received his MD from Albany Medical College a...

I know...dialectical behavior therapy sounds complicated - but it is DBT for short, and Dr. Osmond does a great job of summarizing a key concept - wise mind being a combo of rational mind and emotion mind. This is an important concept for us all, relevant to home life and any decision-making task, including diagnostic work for physicians. DBT (first brought up to me by David Caruso in a prior epis...

Emotional intelligence allows for self-compassion, which we can then extend to others. Giving ourselves permission to feel allows others around us to have permission to feel. Join me and Dr. Eunice Yuen in Part 2 of our conversation, where she talks about Yale CHATogether, which has links to the growth mindset and deliberate practice. The concept of CHATogether could apply to any relationship, not...

We all have multiple identities, even if we did not move from Hong Kong to Florida at age 16 as a parachute kid, like Dr. Eunice Yuen. Dr. Yuen shares her story and how that has influenced her in her work as an adolescent psychiatrist and founder of Yale CHATogether. Navigating work and home culture can also produce acculturative stress, and this is an episode for us all. Dr. Eunice Yuen, MD PhD i...

Dr. Ian Katz, MD is a pathologist and leading expert in skin cancer at Southern Sun Pathology, Australia’s largest dedicated skin cancer dermatopathology laboratory. Dr. Katz received his MBChB from the University of Cape Town in 1986, his BSc (Med) (Hons) from the same university in 1988, and has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia since 1996. Dr. Katz has many inter...

Have you heard of the NURS mnemonic? Dr. Robert Smith shares how to name, understand, respect, and support emotions in an empathic way. He also gives 3 other tips (silence/pausing, using open-ended questions, asking about emotion) that can help us all in our daily conversations as well as between doctor and patient. Dr. Robert C. Smith, MD, MACP is University Distinguished Professor of Medicine an...

There is an epidemic of overdiagnosis of malignant melanoma, a potentially deadly skin cancer. Dr. Ade Adamson speaks to why he has dedicated his career to studying this phenomenon, some of his initial feelings before the article was published, and what motivates him to continue to shed light on this problem. Dr. Adewole Adamson is a dermatologist, researcher, and advocate. He is currently an Assi...

I love the Alexander Hamilton song, Satisfied , particularly because of the phrase, "From your sister, who is always by your side...". Here is a conversation with my sister on two concepts in psychology, emotional intelligence and the growth mindset, that have really changed the way that I see the world. Dr. Susan J. Ko, PhD earned her Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Arts degrees in C...

What is motivational interviewing ? As with any skill, motivational interviewing can take time to learn (with formal evaluations including transcripts used to parse every word spoken). For this podcast episode, Dr. Robles breaks down a few of the techniques in motivational interviewing into simple things that we can all do in our relationships, including within the healthcare system. Build rapport...

There are different flavors of shame - any idea what they are? Shame, as any emotion, can be a signpost, and we can't get rid of shame completely (and maybe we don't even truly want to). But there is a type of shame that SHOULD be eliminated - Dr. Will Bynum explains this with elegance. Dr. Will Edwards Bynum, IV, MD, is an Associate Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health at D...

What is grief versus shame and does the difference matter? How can shame relate to a growth mindset, deliberate practice, and emotional intelligence? Dr. Will Bynum answers these questions and more. Dr. Will Edwards Bynum, IV, MD, is an Associate Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health at Duke University. Prior to that, he served 7 years of active duty in the US Air Force. His primary ac...

Dr. Schukow played football for much of his life, and he experienced an identity change once he was no longer actively playing the sport. The growth mindset and vulnerability have been key to his transition from football to medicine. Dr. Casey P. Schukow, DO is currently in his first post-graduate year as a transitional year resident at ProMedica Monroe Regional Hospital in Monroe, MI. He attended...

Dr. Itiel Dror PhD is a senior cognitive neuroscience researcher at the University College London. He received his PhD in Psychology at Harvard University. He researches information processing involved in perception, judgment, and decision-making. Dr. Dror has dozens of research publications, which have been cited over 10,000 times. His academic theoretical work is complemented with applied worked...