Succeed in Medicine: Practical Knowledge for Busy Physicians

Blake Eastman is a guest like no other we’ve had. He is a professional poker player and founded School of Cards, the first brick and mortar poker school in the country and is the creator of Beyond Tells, a poker tells training site. He has a graduate degree in psychology and taught psychology at the City University of New York for six years. While he was doing that all of that, he also provided co...

Matthew Wiggins is the co-founder and Senior Advisor at Pattern, a life and disability insurance company that caters specifically to the physician community. Today he teaches us about disability and despite there being a pandemic that is putting us at higher risk, because of the shelter in place orders, it is actually EASIER to get disability. We discuss this as well as why disability is so import...

This is a flashpoint in our nation’s history and our positions as physicians endow us with a certain amount of respect and authority and with that authority comes responsibility.  Responsibility to have difficult conversations. It is not uncommon for us to have difficult conversations, like breaking bad news, discussing an adverse health outcome, but these conversations are about others. We need t...

This is a flashpoint in our nation’s history and our positions as physicians endow us with a certain amount of respect and authority and with that authority comes responsibility.  Responsibility to have difficult conversations. It is not uncommon for us to have difficult conversations, like breaking bad news, discussing an adverse health outcome, but these conversations are about others. We need t...

In this second half we discuss some of the sequelae, like coagulopathy, but spend most of the time talking about the path forward: herd immunity, cross-immunity from other coronaviruses, durability of immunity, a vaccine, the quirk of spread among children, or rather lack thereof. Jennifer Kasten, MD, MSc, MSc , is a practicing pediatric pathologist with degrees in medicine from the Columbia Unive...

Jennifer Kasten, MD, MSc, MSc , is a practicing pediatric pathologist with degrees in medicine from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, infectious disease epidemiology (CID) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a year's postgraduate work in the mathematical modeling of infectious disease at Oxford University, and a master's in the history of medicine and...

Jeffrey W. Ross, MD retired in 2017 from a successful first career as a fellowship-trained Interventional Radiologist and a board-certified Diagnostic Radiologist to become the founder and managing director of Vailshire Capital Management, LLC and Vailshire Partners, LP. Passionate about investing wisely and teaching others to do the same, Jeff is a former contributor for The Motley Fool and curre...

COVID-19 has turned the world upside down and although prevalence may wax and wane, we are going to have to get used to living, knowing that it is out there. We are going to have to develop new routines and habits in order to minimize our risk of getting it. We can’t eliminate our risk, but we can mitigate it and when developing habits that stick, simplicity is key, so on today’s podcast, we have...

Gretchen LaSalle, MD FAAFP is a board-certified family physician with a passion for preventative care, from which vaccine advocacy is a natural extension. She is an active writer and public speaker on the topic and, in October 2019, published a book with Wolters Kluwer Press titled Let’s Talk Vaccines: A Clinician’s Guide to Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy and Saving Lives . In a growing climate of v...

Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng is the founder of the Resource Optimization Network and a critical care and palliative care physician. He is also the host of the Solving Healthcare Podcast . He is also Canadian, so we discuss the Canadian Healthcare System, which, on its surface, looks like a comprehensive, all encompassing, federally administered single-payor system, like what some of the democrats are d...

Adam E. Block, PhD, is a recurring guest, having spoken previously about common misconceptions of the Affordable Care Act, and Medicare for All. Today we will be discussing the how erring on the side of an earlier end to shelter in place could have a worse impact on the economy than waiting longer. We also discuss what a return to work could possibly look like and when can we expect our elective p...

Robyn Symon is a two-time Emmy Award-winner, and an accomplished writer, producer/director, and editor. She is the producer and director of the documentary film, Do No Harm, about the healthcare system that drives us to take our lives. We discuss how prevalent physician suicide is and how the real numbers and demographics are so difficult to track. We talk about the difference between paying lip s...

While this episode was recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic, it is all the more relevant. Meditation is an arrow we should all have in our quivers. After over 10 years practicing Internal Medicine at Rush University Medical Center, Dr. Jill Wener knows firsthand what severe stress and burnout feel like. In the midst of her own burnout, she was introduced to Conscious Health Meditation, and it had...

Nathalie Martinek, PhD is a recovering developmental and cancer biologist who transitioned out of the controlled environment of the laboratory into the messy world of human behavior and relationships. She continues to apply her critical and objective lens honed as a scientist to understanding drivers of human behavior in the various relationships that exist in healthcare contexts to discover what...

What can an English professor with expertise in Victorian Literature teach us about the coronavirus? Germ theory became popularized during that era, so this is when people realized that we were the vectors of our own illnesses. One would think that this would cause us to isolate ourselves from one another, like we are doing now, but the literature of the time, which reflects the thinking of the ti...

Stephanie Streit is a trauma surgeon at University Medical Center in Las Vegas. She went to med school at the University of Cincinnati and did a general surgery residency at MUSC. She is currently active duty in the Air Force. She is also the host of the Breaking Scrub Podcast, where she interviews surgeons about the interesting things we do outside of the operating room. She is convinced that suc...

Dr. Frank Cusimano, PhD, has a doctorate in Nutrition and Metabolic Biology from Columbia University and is currently a medical student at the Arizona College of Osteopathic medicine. Having done his PhD on the gut microbiome, a hot topic, we dive into the science of prebiotics, probiotics, postbiotics and antibiotics. What can we actually recommend to patients to help them with GI upset while on...

Professor Nathan Lents studied biology at St. Louis University and then completed his PhD at St. Louis University’s school of medicine in Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences.  PhDs need residencies, too, so he did his postdoctoral training in cancer genomics at NYU and loved New York so much that he stayed and is now a Professor at John Jay College in Manhattan and director of the honors pr...

Professor Nathan Lents studied biology at St. Louis University and then completed his PhD at St. Louis University’s school of medicine in Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences.  PhDs need residencies, too, so he did his postdoctoral training in cancer genomics at NYU and loved New York so much that he stayed and is now a Professor at John Jay College in Manhattan and director of the honors pr...

Torie Sepah, MD, completed her internship in family medicine at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, then went on to complete a psychiatry residency at LA County + USC Medical Center. She has studied physician burnout syndrome extensively. It is a topic that is very personal to her and we discuss why. She defines the syndrome, what the major causes are, what the consequences are and what...

Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako is a 4th year med student (out of 5) at the Yale School of Medicine and hosts his own podcast, Flip the Script, about healthcare disparities. He starts out discussing how some of what we learn about race being a risk factor for some diseases are a product of social constructs, not genetic predisposition. We then discuss racial disparities in substance-use disorder treatme...

Jonathan Weinkle, MD, is a general internist and general pediatrician who came to medicine after deciding against careers as a philosopher or a rabbi and is the author of Healing People, Not Patients . He starts off by teaching us how he was able to write a book about his patient interactions without violating HIPAA. His book illustrates the many ways in which it is important to really know our pa...

Sean Fogler, MD is the Community Outreach Coordinator at the Pennsylvania Harm Reduction Coalition (PAHRC), a person in long-term recovery, physician and certified recovery specialist. He has over 15 years of experience in the healthcare industry working as a physician, and with patients, administrators, and insurance organizations. This is the second part of the interview. In this portion, we sta...

Sean Fogler, MD is the Community Outreach Coordinator at the Pennsylvania Harm Reduction Coalition (PAHRC), a person in long-term recovery, physician and certified recovery specialist. He has over 15 years of experience in the healthcare industry working as a physician, and with patients, administrators, and insurance organizations. This is a two-part episode. In this first part, we talk about how...

On today’s episode we speak to Dr. Phil Boucher, pediatrician, podcaster, physician coach, blogger, and physician efficiency expert. We discuss ways to make sure the private practice physician is maximizing the use of their time. That doesn’t mean no naps! He mentions scheduling nap time into one of his days! The key is to plan as much of your day as possible, schedule in some flex time for unexpe...