Succeed in Medicine: Practical Knowledge for Busy Physicians

Amy G. Fogelman, MD, is back for a follow-up interview. We talk about her first case, which she couldn’t talk much about because of privacy rules, so we also talk about her first case that went to trial, which means it is public information. We talk about what she would have done differently early on in her medical career and what I should do once I get my first case (in case anyone needs an otola...

What the heck is direct primary care? Or direct care since other specialties are adopting this model. It is a subscription service that gives you access to your doctor whenever you want it. It is disruptive! Sometimes. So we talk to Dr. Maryal Concepcion about her practice, her podcast, why she chose to stop billing insurance companies and give patients access to her 24/7. We also talk about what...

Dr. Karen Wolowick has been a practicing OBGYN for over 17 years.  She decided to venture into the world of private practice to try to reconnect with the more intimate and rewarding aspects of women's health.  ​ She gives a review of what all physicians should know about OB-GYN. We get a crash course in birth control, why someone should “get their hormones checked,” how to think about risks when p...

Dr. John Jurica is a family physician who began doing nonclinical side jobs early in his career. He started as a part time physician advisor and medical director, and subsequently worked as a hospital Chief Medical Officer for 14 years. He left his CMO position to partner in an urgent care start-up in 2014, where he continues to serve as co-owner and medical director. In 2017, John started produci...

Dr. Sanj Katyal is making his third appearance on the podcast. He is a radiologist, author, coach and student of positive psychology. Sanj discovered positive psychology as an attending, whereas Jordyn discovered it as an undergrad, and both have Masters degrees in it. She’s currently a second-year psychiatry resident at Mt. Sinai and already extremely accomplished. In fact, she just published her...

Jacqueline Clancy is a certified legal nurse consultant and expert witness who specializes in cases involving delay of care and interfacility transfers. The majority of her career was spent in identifying gaps in care, reviewing chronologies/timelines for opportunities for improvement, deviations from best practice, and writing protocols for future prevention of injury, and malpractice. She design...

Elizabeth Landry is a physician family advocate, Certified Life Coach for Physician Wives, EM wife of 20+ years, mother, and founder of The MedCommons , a digital magazine and online community serving physician spouses and partners as they navigate med school, residency, & beyond. Most of her content is for the physician’s significant other, but she had posted recently about six traits doctors nee...

Ernesto Gluecksmann is the managing partner at Through the Noise, who I’ve hired to help increase the size of my audience. His strategy was so dramatically different from anyone else I had interviewed, so this is what we discuss on the podcast. How to get your name, brand and services out there to a bigger audience. The secret sauce for me was my youtube channel because so many more people are on...

Carin Gilfry is an experienced voice actor who voiced thousands of commercials, instructional videos, IVR systems, eLearning programs, documentaries, and video games, and narrated and produced over 100 audiobooks. She works primarily from her professional home studio in Southern California ( www. GilfryStudios.com ). Her past and current clients include FedEx, Volkswagen, Citibank, Duncan Hines, A...

Anupam Bapu Jena, MD, PhD, is the Joseph P. Newhouse Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and a physician in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. As an economist and physician, Dr. Jena’s research involves several areas of health economics and policy including the use of...

Sandman Legal Services is the nation’s only law firm dedicated to the needs of medical expert witnesses and consultants. Its founder and principal, Dan Sandman, Esq was on the show in August and gave a super engaging interview with such useful information, that I had to have him back. In the last interview, he gave an overview of the business of being a medical expert witness and in this episode,...

Kevin Mailo, MD, is an emergency physician based in western Canada. He is the founder of Physician Empowerment - an organization dedicated to transforming the lives of physicians through education in finance, wellness, practice management, and leadership. He is a serial entrepreneur with companies in real estate, finance, and education. We discuss what financial issues impact American and Canadian...

Amy E. Vertrees, MD is a general surgeon in Columbia, Tennessee, the founder of Columbia Surgery Partners, and is affiliated with Maury Regional Hospital . She went to med school at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and trained at Walter Reed. She is the founder of BOSS – the Business of Surgery Series, where she offers courses on how surgeons can enjoy clinic, dealing with diff...

Eric Gantwerker, MD, MS, MMSc (MedEd), FACS is back for a second interview. He is a pediatric otolaryngologist at Cohen Children’s Hospital at Northwell Health, associate professor of otolaryngology at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra, and vice president/ medical director at Level Ex , a medical videogame company. In a previous episode, we discussed leveraging video games for skill building. I...

Professor Timothy Caulfield is a Canada Research Chair in health law and policy, a professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health, and a research director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. However, he is most well-known for being a misinformation debunker, having written several bestselling books , including The Cure for Everything; The Vaccination Picture...

Troy Bannister is the CEO of Particle Health , a company that is shaping the new standard for healthcare data exchange with a user-friendly application programming interface platform. After spending years in the healthcare industry as an EMT, clinical researcher, and medical student, he decided to attempt the seemingly insurmountable task of fixing the interoperability problem of electronic medica...

A health psychologist by training, Dr. Margaret Hay has worked in health professional education for the past 2 decades in both curriculum governance and teaching roles. She is the inaugural Head of the Monash Centre for Professional Development and Monash Online Education in the Portfolio of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Monash University. Prior to this, she was the inaugural Director of Professiona...

Dr. Arian Nachat is an emergency medicine and palliative care physician, which to me was a surprising combination, so we start the discussion with why emergency medicine physicians are well suited for palliative care. Most recently, she founded Pallity which brings together resources to educate, empower and enable patients with life-altering illness to live their life to their fullest potential. D...

Sandman Legal Services is the nation's only law firm dedicated to the needs of medical expert witnesses and consultants.  Its founder and principal, Dan Sandman, Esq., has been a licensed attorney for nearly 20 years.  For nearly 8 years, Dan led a leading medical expert witness and consulting agency, American Medical Forensic Specialists ("AMFS"), helming the company as President for 5 years, and...

Adam Rosh is the Chief Medical Officer at Blueprint Prep and Founder of Rosh Review. which he created in 2011. He received his BA and MS from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He received his medical degree from Rutgers Medical School and completed his emergency medicine residency training at NYU. He went on to serve as assistant residency director and residency director at Detroit Receiving H...

Dr. Crystal Beal, a Board-Certified Family Medicine Physician, started QueerDoc with the mission to raise the bar in gender-affirming care and improve LGBTQ+ lives through: Telemedicine-based direct clinical services Provider education LGBTQ+ DEI Healthcare consulting They leverage their lived experience and medical expertise to offer a level of unsurpassed nuance to their services.   We talk abou...

Dr. Simon Maltais is an active cardiac surgeon and author of Healthcare Anonymous: Learn How to Put Yourself First While Pursuing a Calling . He served as a previous vice-chair of the Mayo Clinic, has a doctorate degree in biomedical engineering and heart regeneration. He is an internationally recognized leader in the field of heart transplantation, mechanical heart devices, and alternative cardia...

Many of you know Dr. Jimmy Turner. He calls himself the Physician Philosopher and this is his second time on the show. In the first episode with him, we talked about his first book, The Physician Philosopher’s Guide to Personal Finance and he just published Determined: How Burned Out Doctors Can Thrive In a Broken Medical System. He also runs the alpha coaching experience and hosts the Physician P...

Terry Ciesla is the senior vice president of Scribe EMR , a remote scribing company that provides remote scribing, coding, and a variety of virtual assistance services. Prior to this, he served in various senior management positions for several healthcare service and IT vendors. He has also led startups of a medical transcription company as well as a successful venture that delivered artificial in...

In the new book Lessons Learned: Stories from Women Physician Leaders , 32 women physician leaders share their career paths with the goal of improving the trajectory of women in medicine. We talked today with Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, MD, MPH, AMWA (American Medical Women’s Association) President (2022-2023) and Professor of Medicine, Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership, a...