Succeed in Medicine: Practical Knowledge for Busy Physicians

Dr. Nicole Swiner is a family physician, 6-time best-selling author, blogger, speaker, wife and mother in Durham, North Carolina. How does she do it all? That’s how we start the interview! With her company, Swiner Publishing Company, she helps authors become best-sellers, from start to finish. We talk about why doctors should write books, why they shouldn’t, why they should self-publish and why pu...

Sandy Scott is a physician and executive coach who has coached over 500 physicians and healthcare executives. Sandy’s vision is to transform the lives of all physician leaders into meaningful and high-performing journeys by teaching us the strategies and tactics we need to lead and live with purpose. We discuss how to get to the C-suite and this requires a lot of self-reflection. The key is being...

Vanessa Guzman is the CEO of Smartrise Health, which specializes in all Value-based Payment and Accountable Care organization matters. She helps us make sense of the alphabet soup of acronyms like ACO, MIPS and why the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services is CMS and not CMMS. She defines value by CMS’ three aims: better care for individuals, better health for populations and lower cost. She a...

Dr. Fabian Sandoval is the CEO & Research Director of the Emerson Clinical Research Institute and has over 25 years of bench to bedside research experience. His diversified research career has been in academia, healthcare systems and the public sector. He received his Bachelors of Science in molecular and cellular biology from Marymount University, and his Doctorate of Medicine from the Autonomous...

Dana Dornsife is a patient-advocate and the founder and CEO of Lazarex Cancer Foundation, a nationwide non-profit organization that seeks to improve the outcome of cancer care - giving hope, dignity, and life to advanced stage cancer patients and the medically underserved by matching patients to clinical trials and providing travel reimbursements to patients for the costs associated with FDA clini...

Dr. Stefani Reinold is a board-certified psychiatrist, body image coach, women's mental health expert, and eating disorders specialist. She is the author of the bestselling book,  Let Your Heart Out , podcast host of the show,  It's Not About the Food ,  and Creator of the HEART Method: a self-led therapy tool helping with emotional self-awareness and resiliency. She went to medical school at Univ...

This is part 2 of my interview with Dr. Jeffrey Segal, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Medical Justice. Dr. Segal is a board-certified neurosurgeon. He was a practicing neurosurgeon for ten years, during which time he also played an active role as a participant on various state-sanctioned medical review panels designed to decrease the incidence of meritless medical malpractice cases. We sta...

Dr. Jeffrey Segal, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Medical Justice, is a board-certified neurosurgeon. He was a practicing neurosurgeon for ten years, during which time he also played an active role as a participant on various state-sanctioned medical review panels designed to decrease the incidence of meritless medical malpractice cases. We talk about his journey from neurosurgeon to pharm...

David Liljigren is the COO of  ADK America  where he leverages nearly three decades of experience in helping healthcare organizations and physicians harness the power of branding and communication to navigate through change and achieve growth. Throughout his career, David has helped such corporations as Hisamitsu Pharmaceuticals, GE Healthcare IT, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, and The Nielsen...

Steve Vargo, OD, MBA, is an optometrist and author, who recently published the book, Prescribing Change: How to Make Connections, Influence Decisions and Get Patients to Buy into Change . He wrote this book in order to give clinicians the tools to be more impactful with getting patients to make changes that improve their vision, health, and quality of life. He discusses how to engage our patients...

Dr. Linda Bluestein in the founder and sole proprietor at HypermobilityMD.com and host of the Bendy Bodies Podcast. We discuss how to distinguish hypermobility from a hypermobility disorder. We also discuss common, non-joint related pathologies that those with hypermobility connective tissue disorders may have from POTS syndrome to mast cell instability. At the end, we discuss some case presentati...

This episode is very META. It is about learning how to learn. For the premeds, med students and residents, this is critical.  For those of us out and about in the world that need to recertify, this is a reminder that we never knew the best ways to study, so we should learn those techniques now. Chase DiMarco teaches us ideas like visual mnemonics, memory palaces, mind mapping, gamification among o...

Dr. Taylor Brana is a Resident Physician in Psychiatry, Creator of The Happy Doc Podcast and developer of educational platforms that utilize voice-first technology. Our interview is really two separate interviews in one. In the first, we cover his podcast, where he interviews physicians on how they manage to continue finding fulfillment and enjoyment in their lives and practices in a world of crus...

Brent Lacey, MD, is a gastroenterologist with a passion for financial management and career coaching.  He was able to pay off all of his student loans before finishing fellowship, and he got a big head start on his retirement savings. He felt God calling him to start teaching financial management classes so he created a Financial Discipleship Ministry at his church and developed a personal finance...

This is part 2 of 2 of my discussion with Dr. Gita Pensa, emergency medicine physician and host of the educational podcast, "Doctors and Litigation: The L Word" , a narrative-style series about psychological and practical preparation for malpractice litigation.  We continue the discussion about how deposition is an audition for the trial and how important it is the play the part of the doctor ever...

Dr. Gita Pensa is an Associate Professor with the Brown University Emergency Medicine Residency. She joined Brown's academic faculty in 2014, after thirteen years in community emergency medicine practice. In 2015, she launched Brown EM's  educational blog as well as the Brown EM podcast series. She created and serves as host/editor of   AEM Early Access , a collaborative podcasting project from th...

This is part 2 of my interview with Dr. BJ Fogg, author of Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything. In this part, we talk about how success breeds success and having your patient work on the habit you want them to change shouldn’t be the first priority. The first priority should be what they want to change because it shows them that they can be successful in creating lasting change....

This interview is one of my most important. If you are doing to share any of my episodes, this is one that I would implore you to share with your friends, family and colleagues. This is part 1 of 2 of my interviews with BJ Fogg, PhD, author of the book Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything . We all struggle to change our behaviors, to develop good habits and stop bad habits. There...

Andrew Tisser DO is an emergency physician and urgent care director practicing in Western NY. Andrew's passion is to help fellow early-career physicians navigate the issues of money, mindset and making moves (goal setting). He hosts the Talk2MeDoc podcast and is the owner of Talk2MeDoc LLC, a consulting company working with early-career physicians on the above. His original podcast goal was to get...

Silvie Stacy, MD, MPH, is a preventive medicine physician and founder of LookforZebras.com . You’re a doctor; you get the reference and in this situation the Zebra is a nonclinical career. She knew from the start that she wanted to be a nonclinical physician, but there weren’t many resources out there, so for others going through the same experience, she built her blog. She just wrote the book, 50...

Dr. Sarah Hart-Unger is a pediatric endocrinologist, who did all of her education at Duke, and is now the pediatric residency program director at Joe Dimaggio Children’s Hospital in South Florida.  She is intrigued by the challenges of making work and life fit together -- so much that she cohosts a podcast on the topic, Best of Both Worlds , with time management expert and writer Laura Vanderkam ....

Kelley Knott is the Co-founder and VP of Marketing for the healthcare marketing agency , Intrepy. She is a highly experienced physician liaison and has a background in consulting for medical practices and health systems on how to build new patient referrals and create digital marketing strategies. She developed the first of its kind online physician liaison training platform, Physician Liaison Uni...

In this episode, we cover the basics of dermatology, what everyone should know for when a casual acquaintance that thinks they are closer to you than they really are, asks you, “hey, can you take a look at this rash on my …?” She dispels some myths about sunblock, tells us about what qualities to look for in a moisturizer. She then teaches us about all of the things that dermatologists spend their...

Barbara Hamilton, MD is an interventional radiologist, physician leader, and mom, who blogs at  TiredSuperheroine.com. She is currently the Chair of interventional Radiology at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, California. She went to med school at Rutgers, was a radiology resident at Brown, and did her IR fellowship at UCLA. Apparently IR has a problem with PR. Some of us could be m...

Physicians dedicate our lives to the care of others and this often doesn’t end when we leave work, but extends to our family and friends, other projects and demands that lead us to over extend ourselves until we feel like butter spread over too much bread. This has become acutely true during this pandemic, so psychiatrist Dr. Dimitrios Tsatiris discusses how we can work more self-care into our liv...