The Art of Medicine with Dr. Andrew Wilner

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Show Notes July 9, 2021 Many thanks to Brian Bradley, Esq., for discussing the topic of asset protection during this 20-miunute podcast. Brian is an asset protection attorney with Bradley Legal Corp. The more assets one has, the more critical asset protection becomes. However, asset protection plans may be advisable even for t...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Show Notes July 9, 2021 Many thanks to Leighann Landy, FNP-C, for sharing her experience as a co-owner of a Medspa with her husband, Stephen Landy, MD. If you listen to “The Art of Medicine” regularly, you will remember that Dr. Landy and I had a great talk about migraines in Episode #32. Leighann explained the difference betw...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Show Notes July 7, 2021 Many thanks to Ripal Patel, MD, founder and lead for Mercision Emergency Medicine, for joining me to discuss locum tenens and ER medicine. Dr. Patel received his MD at UT Southwestern Medical Center and his MPH at Kings College, London. He started in general surgery but quickly found his home in ER medi...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Show Notes July 7, 2021 Please join me for this 20-minute program with Pamela Finnie, RN, Trauma Program Manager at Regional One Health, Memphis, TN. We discussed the role of a regional trauma center and an important public health program, "Stop the Bleed." Pamela explains what trauma is and the need for immediate sp...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks!  Show Notes July 6, 2021 Many thanks to Maheen Mausoof Adamson, Ph. D., for joining me to discuss gender differences in traumatic brain injury. Dr. Adamson is Clinical Research Director for Rehabilitation Services at the Veterans Administration Palo Alto, CA, and Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford School...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Show Notes Colin Zhu, DO, is a locum tenens family physician and author of “Thrive Medicine: How to Cultivate Your Desires and Elevate Your Life.” Colin is a multidimensional physician—he tries to merge Eastern and Western medical philosophies and obtained a culinary degree. Colin discusses how diverse locum experiences locums...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Dr. Robin’s School Please join me for a fun-filled discussion with Robin Dickinson, MD, creator of “Dr. Robin’s School,” an online pre-medical school for children curious about human physiology.  Dr. Dickinson is a board-certified family physician whose teaching career began in the third grade—when she was a third-grade studen...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Show Notes William Tarver, MD, MPH Many thanks to William Tarver, MD, MPH, for taking time from his busy day at NASA to discuss space medicine on “The Art of Medicine with Dr. Andrew Wilner.” Bill trained as an Air Force Flight Surgeon. Then, after a stint in private practice, he joined NASA over 15 years ago.  Please join us...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Show Notes Please join me for this enjoyable 15-minute interview with Bret Stetka, MD, who discusses his new book, “ A History of the Human Brain .” Bret has been my editor at Medscape.com for more than a decade. He also freelances as a health and science journalist for Scientific American and NPR . His excellent writing came...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Show Notes Mistaken Identity and Good Guy Coffee This episode of “The Art of Medicine with Dr. Andrew Wilner ” is a little different. It explores how the power of social media can suddenly upset one’s routine, and in this case, lead to an unusual and positive outcome. Join me for an introduction to Jason Collier, DDS (not the...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Show Notes Spectrum of Migraine Many thanks to Stephen Landy, MD, for sharing his expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of migraine on The Art of Medicine . Dr. Landy graduated with honors from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in 1982 (where I am currently a faculty member). He has participated in headache re...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Show Notes Many thanks to Kyla Plaxton for sharing her personal story and professional tips about the ancient art of acupressure. Kyla learned about acupressure while still a teenager. She was so enthralled with how good it made her feel that she made it her profession. Acupressure is a hands-on therapy that utilizes the same...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Many thanks to Donnie Bell, MD, a neuro-interventional radiologist and Deputy Chief Medical Officer for New York City Health and Hospitals in New York City, NY, for chatting with me today. Dr. Bell is a co-author of a recent article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association along with Michael Katz, MD, that...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Show Notes Recorded March 2, 2021 Many thanks to Ken Sommerville, MD, an old friend and colleague, who discussed his 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry.  When I was in training, my academic mentors considered Pharma the “dark side” with the implication that such a career was unworthy of a physician with Osle...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Show Notes February 17, 2021 Introduction Many thanks to Jennifer Frontera, MD, Professor of Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, for discussing the new Neuro Databank-Biobank for COVID-19. Dr. Frontera is a neurocritical care specialist and has been caring for COVID-19 patients in New York City si...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Show Notes Recorded February 4, 2021 Many thanks to Kenneth Tyler, MD, for sharing his expertise as a specialist in neurologic infections. Dr. Tyler is Professor and Chair of Neurology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO. Dr. Tyler recently co-authored a paper on the neurologic complications of COVID-1...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Show Notes Interview January 8, 2021 Many thanks to Armin Feldman, MD, for sharing his secrets of the new medical subspecialty, “forensic medicine.” A psychiatrist and psychoanalyst by training, Dr. Feldman initially focused his energies on traumatic brain injury patients. However, for the last 13 years, he has assisted attorn...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Show Notes November 17, 2020 Many thanks to David Weinstock, MD, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Cambridge, MA, for commenting on his recent article published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM 2020;383 (19):1809-1811). Dr. Weinstock’s impeccable crede...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks!   Show Notes November 6, 2020 Many thanks to Maureen Czick, MD, a locum tenens anesthesiologist and author of an intriguing publication that explores the role of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in the pathophysiology of COVID-19 (Czick et al. 2020). Dr. Czick shared how locum tenens returned “agency” to her life, which allo...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Show Notes November 6, 2020 Jeff Anzalone, DDS Many thanks to Jeff Anzalone, DDS, for sharing his hard-earned wisdom about passive real estate investing during this 20-minute interview. Just two months before starting his first job, his new employer canceled the contract without explanation. Jeff found himself $300,000 in debt...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Many thanks to Gene Sung, MD, Director of Critical Care at LAC-USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, for discussing his recent paper "Determination of Brain Death"—The World Brain Death Project. This monumental work took five years to complete and includes input from experts in 45 countries (JAMA 2020;324(11):1078-109...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Show Notes In this 20-minute episode, Memphis real estate agents Dianne and Bruce Milner offer tips for physicians looking to buy their first home. With 40 years of experience between them, Dianne and Bruce discuss the importance of finding an agent with whom you can comfortably communicate. Other topics include how to establi...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Episode #20, November 15, 2020 Uma Naidoo, MD Many thanks to Uma Naidoo, MD, for joining me on this 20-minute episode of “The Art of Medicine with Dr. Andrew Wilner.” Dr. Naidoo is Director of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, MA, nutritionist, chef, and author of “This Is Your...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Show Notes Today is September 29, 2020, and we are still in the midst of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. As of today, more than 1 million people have died from COVID-19, 200,000 of them in the USA. I felt compelled to speak with Alfred Alcorn, a well-known author from Massachusetts. Mr. Alcorn wrote a prescient novel, Sugar Mountain...

Dr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks! Show Notes Dennis Leber Recorded September 17, 2020 Introduction Dennis Leber, Chief Information Security Officer (CISIO) at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), Memphis, TN, joined me for this interview about cybersecurity. Dennis developed his cybersecurity expertise with a stint in the Marines, followe...