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“It has now been almost four years since I transitioned to academia. I see fewer patients per day and take fewer call. I also have more time with each patient, more time to recharge, more time for …
Toughness is not defined by a dollar amount [PODCAST]
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“Doing medical-legal consulting is a great way to use your medical training in a non-clinical field that really helps people. One of the many things we can do is help attorneys refute the question of a pre-existing …
How a medical-legal consultant refuted a pre-existing medical condition argument [PODCAST]
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Mental Health Technologies (MHT) brings much-needed technological innovation to a space in desperate need …
Mental Health Technologies: Revolutionizing technology within the behavior health care field
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Jay Baruch is an emergency physician and author of Tornado of Life: A Doctor’s Journey Through Constraints and Creativity in the ER.
We discuss his emergency …
A doctor’s journey through constraints and creativity in the ER [PODCAST]
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“It is impossible to fix a system with an unwillingness to bend. It means working together to accomplish a goal.
Living in the gray requires a commitment to growth and discomfort. In the gray, it is possible to …
Protect Black women’s maternal health [PODCAST]
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“If any of those people get infected, their illness will potentially impact dozens more. COVID infection may now be ‘just a cold,’ at least for the vaccinated. But no one should think this ‘you do you, I’ll …
My one case of COVID impacted dozens of lives [PODCAST]
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“Try incorporating the three small practices of your choice into your day-to-day for two weeks and watch your experience of your life transform.
You have worked far too hard to just go through the motions forever. Starting today, …
Stop going through the motions and actually have the life you dreamed of [PODCAST]
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“You received an interview invite based on ERAS filters the program set, so you already have your foot in the door. Don’t have them yawning at a two-page extravaganza of your life story that makes them wonder …
Who reads personal statements? [PODCAST]
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“No wonder doctors feel like hamsters running on an exercise wheel to nowhere. And this sense of futility is driving burnout. How much patient care will you get out of docs who have moved on to nonclinical …
Doctors are like hamsters running on an exercise wheel to nowhere [PODCAST]
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“I am heartbroken at the loss of my sister. No, breast cancer didn’t physically kill her, and for that, I am grateful. Its presence in her medical history, however, quite possibly did as it was apparently used …
My sister went to the hospital seeking help. Instead, she died. [PODCAST]
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“There is great hope for this bill to accomplish the stated goals in the medical and energy worlds. There are many excellent summaries regarding this bill, and I would urge any interested readers to find a review …
Can the Inflation Reduction Act build back medicine better and reduce climate change? [PODCAST]
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“Despite the terror of the Soviets, it was clear that not even their mighty tanks could eradicate the social tides that now, like a tsunami, could not be turned back. The power of the movement forced Ernő …
A Hungarian Jewish man’s fight for freedom [PODCAST]
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“Patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and their allies will rally in DC, London, and Edinburgh this September to “demand bold, urgent governmental action” for the millions of people living with ME, long COVID, and other infection-associated, chronic …
Why psychological explanations for long COVID are dangerous [PODCAST]
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“I think it’s much more likely that my patients — some of whom are terminal and facing their own mortality; others who are suffering through a multitude of side effects from their cancers or our treatments – …
When patients want their doctors to heal [PODCAST]
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“The value of empathy in medicine is seldom debated. Just as the art of medicine is taught as the balance of knowledge and application, so has empathy been recognized as both a value to be fostered and …
Giving language to empathy: lessons from palliative care [PODCAST]
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“The tech industry needs to invest in developing platforms and devices with active, consistent, and frequent input from the disability community. This input must reflect a range of individuals with disabilities. A variety of identities exist beyond …
Want to improve telehealth? Ask people with disabilities. [PODCAST]
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“There is no temptation to go back to my old life. I hit rock bottom and have been enjoying a doctor’s job. My future is bright. My income is growing. My schedule still has plenty of room. …
Meet the primary care doctor who’s happy with his job [PODCAST]
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“The clocks have flash forwarded, and here I am supervising incoming interns on the 1st of July (which for the past two years has fallen on a weekend). As a frenetic day has finally come to a …
Habits of highly effective interns [PODCAST]
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“I smiled, put the lamb curry in front of her, and instructed her granddaughter on how much time to heat it up in the microwave.
Val wasn’t in a condition where she could have a long conversation with …
A cancer patient’s last wish [PODCAST]
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“Health system leaders can master this ‘chess game’ by anticipating the next several moves well in advance with the assistance of AI-based predictive analytic tools. This adoption will lead to dramatically better outcomes than a purely reactive …
How AI-based technology can help improve hospital capacity management [PODCAST]
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