The SurgeonMasters Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Jeff welcomes to the podcast Retired US Navy Captain and New York Times Bestselling author, David Marquet. David was a nuclear submarine commander who came up through an organizational structure that rewarded knowing the right answer and following orders. In many organizational structures, people are often biased towards doing what they’re told, even if they sense it may not be th...

Send us Fan Mail Jeff welcomes to the podcast orthopaedic trauma surgeon and founder of SIGN Fracture Care, Dr. Lewis G. Zirkle. SIGN is a humanitarian organization that builds sustainable orthopaedic capacity in developing countries by providing relevant education to surgeons, then manufacturing and donating the instruments and implants needed to treat fractures. Dr. Zirkle was inspired to create...

Send us Fan Mail Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast SurgeonMasters collaborator and physician coach, Dr. Errin Weisman. Burnout is a common topic in the medical community. It’s been a topic of discussion for so long that some physicians […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to impro...

Send us Fan Mail Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast orthopaedic surgeon, Darin Davidson, MD. Polyvagal theory describes how we experience life as humans at the most foundational level. Using that information, it then provides a very actionable framework […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community d...

Send us Fan Mail Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast surgeon, MD, PhD, and co-founder of surgical intelligence startup Theator, Dr. Tamir Wolf. Surgery is essentially an apprenticeship. As a result, the performance of a surgeon – what they […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to imp...

Send us Fan Mail Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast pediatric orthopaedic surgeon and physician leadership advocate, Dr. Alvin Jones. As surgeons, we’re trained to perform procedures with the utmost technical precision. But we’re often not well trained at […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community...

Send us Fan Mail Jeff welcomes to the podcast Stuart Slavin MD, MEd – a Senior Scholar for Well-Being at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The well-being movement has changed a lot over the past decade. Right now, it feels like we’re a little bit stuck. Maybe we shouldn’t be focusing solely on well-being activities like […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer communi...

Send us Fan Mail Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast pediatric orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Alvin Jones. All surgeons are leaders. Even if we don’t have a formal leadership role, we are leaders in the OR. It can sometimes be […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to improving the personal...

Send us Fan Mail Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast Julie Samora, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at Ohio State University. Second Victim Syndrome can impact any surgeon when a patient experiences a bad outcome.  Many healthcare providers who make […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to...

Send us Fan Mail Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast Dr. Ara Feinstein, an Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Arizona, College of Medicine – Phoenix. Ara is also a Physician Executive, an active member of a Federal Disaster […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to improvin...

Send us Fan Mail Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… In this episode of the mini-podcast, Jeff welcomes Stuart Slavin MD, MEd – a Senior Scholar for Well-Being at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Currently, there’s a big focus on system-wide […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated...

Send us Fan Mail Jeff welcomes to the podcast Paul DeChant, MD., keynote speaker, author, and executive coach assisting healthcare leaders create more resilient organizations. We believe that the primary driver of burnout is the workplace, not the physician. As surgeons, we’re knowledgeable, trained, and dedicated. The problem is that we’re often in a work setting that depersonalizes our […] Surge...

Send us Fan Mail Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast Professor at The University of New Mexico (UNM) and Chair of the Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation, Dr. Bob Schenck. As surgeons, it’s important to consider the work culture […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to im...

Send us Fan Mail Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast “recovering” radiologist and mindset coach, Dr. Tracey O’Connell. Throughout her career as a physician, Tracey has had many moments of feeling “not good enough” — which is something a […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to improv...

Send us Fan Mail Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast orthopaedic surgeon and advocate, Arianna Gianakos. The rates of bullying, sexual harassment, and discrimination present in the medical field are alarmingly high. These abusive behaviors in our field can […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community...

Send us Fan Mail Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast “recovering” radiologist and mindset coach, Dr. Tracey O’Connell. Shame is ever-present in the field of medicine. As medical professionals we are burdened with an incredible number of expectations, which […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community...

Send us Fan Mail Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast Professor at The University of New Mexico (UNM), and Chair of the Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation, Bob Schenck. According to Bob, a great leader has three major attributes:  […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to...

Send us Fan Mail Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast physician coach and family physician, Errin Weisman, DO. In this episode, Errin takes the reins and interviews Jeff about his recent surgical sabbatical. Earlier this summer, Jeff had lumbar […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to...

Send us Fan Mail Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast OB/GYN and physician coach, Dr. Beverly Joyce.  Beverly focuses her coaching efforts on helping surgeons manage life transitions throughout their careers.  Physicians often think their life is going to […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community d...

Send us Fan Mail Take 10 minutes to learn how to make your life as a surgeon a little better… On this episode, Jeff welcomes back Karla McLaren, our Healthy Empathy expert to the mini-podcast. Karla shares with us her concerns about the level of compassion fatigue and burnout in our healthcare system. She indicates that a big part of the problem is the emotion work we do day-in and day-out, as wel...

Send us Fan Mail Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast Urologist and mentor, Dr. Tim Terry. Tim has been a visiting professor in four countries and has published more than 90 academic articles.  Tim focuses a lot of his […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to improving the personal an...

Send us Fan Mail Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast urologist and physician coach, Kelly Casperson, MD.  As surgeons, we often deal with the concept of permission. We needed permission to get into med school, residency, and our first […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to improvin...

Send us Fan Mail Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast family physician and author, Dr. Jenny Brockis.  Jenny focuses much of her work on psychological safety – a topic that has been largely neglected in the medical community until […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to improving the...

Send us Fan Mail Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast OB/GYN and physician coach, Dr. Beverly Joyce.  Physicians tend to think of themselves as being able to handle whatever’s thrown their way. We think we’re very resilient, but when […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to improving...

Send us Fan Mail Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast certified physician coach and physician executive, Dr. Terri Malcolm.  As physicians, we are expected to be really good at communication. And while most physicians are great at explaining medical […] SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicat...