Thriving in Medicine: The Physician's Guide to Doctoring

Bradley B. Block, MD

Hey there, doc. Welcome to the podcast that feels more like grabbing coffee with a colleague who gets it. This podcast is for physicians who are driven to grow—those who strive for more in their careers and lives. We tackle the challenge of sustaining personal and professional growth while practicing full-time medicine. Each episode delivers expert insights and brass-tacks, immediately actionable advice that ensures you leave better equipped than when you started listening. Covering a wide range of topics that impact every aspect of a physician’s life—in and out of the exam room—we help you keep advancing toward your best self. We’re diving into the real-life questions that make or break your days (and nights): How do I talk to my patients without sounding like a robot—or losing my mind? What’s the trick to managing my team when everyone’s running on fumes? Can I actually improve patient satisfaction without selling my soul? Why does work stress show up at home, and how do I fix it? How do I make extra cash and still sleep at night? Burnout, moral injury... is there a way out? What’s the secret to being a great leader—and not just the boss? Do scrub colors really matter, and what’s with the eternal pager saga? Oh, and we don’t shy away from the fun, messy stuff: getting stains out of your white coat, building a brand on social media, or figuring out if ditching the white coat altogether is the move. This podcast is about being real—because medicine is hard, life is messy, and you deserve more than survival mode. Let’s laugh, learn, and figure out how to find the fulfillment you’ve been chasing. Pull up a chair, put your stethoscope down, and let’s talk. You’re not alone in this.

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A New Approach to Medical Content Distribution with WellPrept’s CEO, Dr. David Canes

Thriving in Medicine: The Physician's Guide to Doctoring

11/14/23 • 34 min

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Dr. David Canes, a board-certified urologist specializing in urologic oncology and robotic surgery, has developed WellPrept, a platform that enhances the efficiency of doctor-patient interactions by providing patients with information before their appointments. This approach addresses the repetitive nature of medical consultations and burnout among healthcare professionals, fostering better patient engagement and understanding.

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[00:00:00] Introduction to the episode and Dr. David Keynes' background
[00:01:00] Dr. Keynes' role as CEO of WellPrepped and its mission
[00:02:00] The realization of repetitive consultations leading to burnout
[00:03:00] Dr. Keynes' personal experience with patient engagement
[00:04:00] The moment of conceptualizing WellPrepped
[00:05:00] Developing the initial version of WellPrepped
[00:06:00] The challenge of finding an English equivalent for 'spiel'
[00:07:00] Incorporating YouTube videos in patient communication
[00:08:00] Positive patient feedback on pre-appointment content
[00:09:00] Transition from prototype to a software solution
[00:10:00] Feedback from other doctors and realizing the broader impact
[00:11:00] The challenge of balancing a medical career with entrepreneurship
[00:12:00] Validation of the idea among urologists
[00:13:00] The journey of creating and scaling up WellPrepped
[00:14:00] Learning curve in software development and entrepreneurship
[00:15:00] The difference between efficiency and productivity in medical practice
[00:16:00] The impact of WellPrepped on reducing clinical burnout
[00:17:00] The role of WellPrepped in improving patient-doctor relationships
[00:18:00] Dr. Keynes' experience in balancing doctor and entrepreneur roles
[00:19:00] The perception of colleagues towards entrepreneurial doctors
[00:20:00] The importance of exploring beyond traditional medical practice
[00:21:00] Explaining the core function of WellPrepped
[00:22:00] Anecdotal evidence of increased efficiency in patient visits
[00:23:00] Enhancing patient experience through pre-visit content
[00:24:00] Differentiating between efficiency and productivity in healthcare
[00:25:00] Building patient trust before the physical consultation
[00:26:00] The importance of face-to-face interactions in patient care
[00:27:00] Utilizing waiting time effectively in patient education
[00:28:00] The need for a holistic approach in patient care experience
[00:29:00] Leveraging waiting periods for patient education
[00:30:00] The impact of visual content in building patient trust
[00:31:00] Challenges of forming patient bonds with masked interactions
[00:32:00] Innovative uses of WellPrepped by healthcare professionals
[00:33:00] Unexpected applications of WellPrepped in patient journey visualization
[00:34:00] The emotional impact of patient anxiety reduction
[00:35:00] How to access and utilize WellPrepped for healthcare providers

#400: Resolving Conflict in Healthcare to be a Greater Mediator with Martin Stillman MD, JD

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10/08/24 • 28 min

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Dr. Martin Stillman, a mediator with diverse expertise in medicine and law, explores the nuances of resolving professional conflicts, particularly in healthcare. Dr. Block and Dr. Stillman discuss specific conflict scenarios like departmental disagreements and resource allocations.

Dr. Stillman underscores the necessity of guiding principles over rigid processes and explores techniques like transparency and mirroring to promote effective communication.

They also touch on how resistance to change and power dynamics complicate conflict resolution, and Dr. Stillman shares lessons learned from his "CRAFT" training program, which aims to empower healthcare leaders to resolve conflicts independently. BIO

Dr. Martin Stillman, MD, JD is a practicing internist, mediator, and conflict resolution expert at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, where he serves as the Mediation and Conflict Resolution Officer. With a dual background in medicine and law, Dr. Stillman assists healthcare organizations in navigating complex interpersonal conflicts and promoting physician wellness. He also holds leadership roles within the Institute of Professional Work Life and the Department of Medicine. An associate professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School, he teaches medical professionals about malpractice, patient communication, and risk management. Dr. Stillman is also the creator of the "CRAFT" program, training healthcare leaders in conflict resolution techniques.

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Create and Market Your Online Course Worldwide with Chester Zoda, MD

Thriving in Medicine: The Physician's Guide to Doctoring

06/21/22 • 44 min

Dr. Chester Zoda’s education company “Digital Doctor,” helps doctors build passive income with online courses. At the start of the pandemic, Dr Zoda was working 80–100-hour weeks and feeling burnt out and overworked. He wanted to spend more time with family but was unable due to clinical obligations. He wanted to find a way to make extra money, so he created an online course teaching digital marketing via Facebook advertising.

His first online course made $5,000 in the first month of launch and was featured on the frontpage of Oberlo magazine. He started taking on additional clients on-the-side, helping Ecommerce and Digital Marketers launch their online courses. After many requests, he eventually decided to teach his methods to a small group of doctors.

In late 2020, he left clinical practice completely to focus on the business we discussed today. He teaches healthcare practitioners how to create online courses. There are patients (and other clinicians) throughout the world who will pay for us to tell them what we say to our patients or trainees each day. What I think he has mastered most, is how to use the search engine algorithms to set up ads that will show up in our target audiences. How to make sure we show up at the top, which works as social proof that we are the experts we claim to be and thus deserve what we charge for our courses.

Healthy Habits in the Age of COVID-19 with Dr. Monique Tello

Thriving in Medicine: The Physician's Guide to Doctoring

05/12/20 • 46 min

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 internist, author, and habit expert, Dr. Monique Tello, who has previously been on our show to discuss her book, Healthy Habits for your Heart. We talk about staying safe in the grocery store, actionable advice we can give our patients to decrease their risk of COVID complications, how to work physical activity into the day and why we should consider getting a pet.

Dr. Tello is a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and instructor at Harvard Medical School. She practices part-time internal medicine at Women's Health Associates, a small MGH-based primary care practice with all female providers that serves predominantly female patients. She is originally from the Boston area, and graduated from Brown University and the University of Vermont College of Medicine. She completed a med-peds residency at Yale and after residency, she earned an MPH and GIM research fellowship at Hopkins. She writes a popular blog, generallymedicine.com, about her life as a doctor and a mother and contributes to many other blogs, including Mothers in Medicine and Harvard Health Blog. Her writing focuses on work/life balance and healthy lifestyle.

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Harness the Power of Language When Discussing Weight with Stephanie Sogg, PhD

Thriving in Medicine: The Physician's Guide to Doctoring

10/10/21 • 57 min

This was one of my favorite interviews. I was a fledgling podcaster at the time when I interviewed Dr. Stephanie Sogg, a clinical psychologist at the Harvard Weight Center. She had been quoted in an article in the Huffington Post that lambasted physicians for not knowing how to talk to our patients about their weight. Interviews like this were the reason why I started podcasting. I emailed her and asked her if she could teach us the right way to have these discussions and she agreed!

Talking to patients about their weight is fraught with landmines created by inordinately complex psychosocial issues. It is very easy to alienate a patient. Dr. Sogg teaches us the power of language and this has come up in other interviews since. Changing racial language from minority to minoritize and slave to enslaved changes the perspective of the listener. It subtly influences how that person is perceived. The same applies to discussing weight; when we change our language about body habitus to be less stigmatizing, it subtly influences the listener, be it our patients, students or colleagues. We also need to change the way we talk about food. According to Dr. Sogg, the only bad food has gone bad, tastes bad or is poisonous.

Dr. Stephanie Sogg is a clinical psychologist and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. She has treated patients with obesity at the MGH Weight Center since 2003. Dr. Sogg earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Rutgers University in 1998, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship with Harvard Medical School. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Sogg conducts research on obesity and bariatric surgery, and the intersection between obesity and addiction, and has published widely on obesity and related topics. She is an author of the Boston Interview for Bariatric Surgery, and of the official ASMBS Recommendations for the Pre-Surgical Psychosocial Evaluation of Bariatric Surgery Patients. She is the director of the Weight Center rotation for Behavioral Medicine psychology interns, and is active in national and international scientific obesity and weight loss surgery societies. She is currently serving as a member-at-large on the Integrated Health Executive Council for the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.

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Healthcare Leaders, Are You Listening? with Diane Shannon, MD

Thriving in Medicine: The Physician's Guide to Doctoring

11/12/21 • 33 min

After experiencing paralyzing burnout as a newly-minted primary care physician, Dr. Diane Shannon made the hard decision to leave practice and pursue a career in writing. Her focus for 20 years has been drawing attention to ways to address clinician burnout, system inefficiency, and patient safety problems. She is co-author of Preventing Physician Burnout: Curing the Chaos and Returning Joy to the Practice of Medicine, which was published in 2016. Her personal experience with burnout and her desire to support clinicians motivated her to become a certified coach three years ago. She now helps clinicians gain clarity on their goals, increase their bandwidth, overcome barriers, and improve their professional and personal lives. Dr. Shannon attended Williams College, Jefferson Medical College, and Harvard University. She completed training in Internal Medicine at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston and practiced general internal medicine before making the shift to writing and coaching. This interview was suggested by Dr. Tam Tiet, a family physician at Sutter Health so thank you for the suggestion, Dr. Tiet. We’ve spoken in the past about burnout from the physician perspective, but what can health systems do in order to address burnout? That was the topic for today’s discussion. We discuss the importance of physician retention and how we can accomplish that, addressing gender and racial disparities in compensation, retention and promotion, and what all of this has to do with pebbles in shoes. Today's sponsor is LocumStory. For more locum tenens information, www.financialresidency.com/locumstory is your final destination.

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Joshua Washington's Formula for Physician-Patient Connection

Thriving in Medicine: The Physician's Guide to Doctoring

02/06/24 • 33 min

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Joshua Washington is a communication coach who specializes in helping physicians improve their communication skills with patients. Joshua emphasizes the importance of building trust and rapport with patients by understanding their goals and expectations. He shares techniques such as setting the agenda for patient visits, acknowledging patients' concerns, and using storytelling to connect with them. Joshua also highlights the role of coaching and persuasion in guiding patients toward better health outcomes. Ultimately, the focus is on creating a trusting relationship between physicians and patients to enhance the overall healthcare experience.

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[00:06:00] Discussion about physicians wanting to be seen as competent and the impact of comparison among colleagues.
[00:07:00] Strategy for working with resistant physicians and focusing on the middle group.
[00:08:00] Conversation about change psychology and the importance of readiness for change.
[00:09:00] Discussion about getting buy-in from resistant physicians.
[00:10:00] Talk about dealing with patients who resist changing their diagnosis and identity.
[00:11:00] Strategies for addressing patients' resistance and getting to the root of their concerns.
[00:12:00] Conversation about time efficiency in patient interactions and setting expectations.
[00:13:00] Mention of setting the pace and tone for patient visits to improve efficiency.
[00:14:00] Discussion on persuasive principles and the role of physicians as shepherds.
[00:15:00] Emphasis on trust-building and persuasion in healthcare.
[00:16:00] Talking about the importance of coaching principles in patient care.
[00:17:00] Discussion on understanding patients' goals and aligning them with treatment plans.
[00:18:00] Mention of motivational interviewing and empathy in patient interactions.

CONTRIBUTOR SERIES: The Complex Terrain of Immigration Law with Sayra Alcazar

Thriving in Medicine: The Physician's Guide to Doctoring

03/26/24 • 50 min

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Dr. Kristine Goins hosts immigration attorney Sayra Alcazar, who brings over 28 years of legal experience, specializing in immigration law. Fluent in Spanish and English, Sayra shares her journey from working in corporate law to focusing on the more personal field of immigration, driven by a desire to directly help clients and address the language barrier challenges faced by immigrants. She highlights the complexities of immigration law, the importance of a holistic approach, and the rewarding nature of her work.

Bio:

Sayra Alcazar is a distinguished immigration attorney with over 28 years of experience in the legal field. Fluent in both Spanish and English, Sayra has dedicated her career to aiding those navigating the complex landscape of immigration law. With a profound understanding of the emotional and logistical challenges faced by immigrants, Sayra employs a holistic approach to legal representation. Her expertise spans international law, environmental issues, and corporate matters, with a special focus on immigration cases. Sayra holds a Master of Law from Southern Methodist University and a Juris Doctorate from LaSalle University School of Law in Mexico.

Beyond her legal achievements, Sayra is an active member of her community, offering her skills and insights to support those seeking a new life in a new country. Her work is driven by a deep commitment to empathy, justice, and the empowerment of the immigrant community. As a part of the esteemed Rizzo and Associates PLLC, Sayra continues to be a beacon of hope and a source of invaluable guidance for her clients.

Her dedication to bridging language barriers and fostering cultural understanding underscores her belief in the law as a tool for positive change. Beyond her legal practice, Sayra contributes to her field through educational initiatives, aiming to demystify immigration law and advocate for a more compassionate approach to legal challenges faced by immigrants. Her work is not just about legal victories; it's about changing lives, one case at a time.

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The Change Healthcare Cyberattack Saga with Dr. Terry Adirim

Thriving in Medicine: The Physician's Guide to Doctoring

03/28/24 • 30 min

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In this spirited rundown of the Change Healthcare hack, Dr. Terry Adirim serves as our cyber sherp, guiding us through a labyrinth of digital misadventures with charm and cheek. This saga unfolded when cybercriminals unleashed a ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, a juggernaut in the healthcare transaction world, effectively holding a significant portion of the healthcare sector's data hostage.

The price for freedom? A cool $22 million in Bitcoin.

Bio:

Dr. Terry Adirim is a distinguished physician executive, clinical professor, and health policy expert. With a rich background in pediatric emergency medicine, Dr. Adirim has held pivotal roles within the Biden-Harris administration, leading major health systems and influencing healthcare policy. Her expertise spans clinical practice, healthcare management, and the integration of health information technology, making her a leading voice on the intersection of healthcare and cybersecurity.

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#436 - Conspirituality and the Wellness Industry: A Conversation with Derek Beres

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02/11/25 • 36 min

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In this episode, Dr Bradley Block interviews Derek Beres, to discuss the intersection of conspiracy theories and spirituality, particularly in the wellness space. Barris explains how "conspirituality" merges left-leaning new-age beliefs with right-wing political ideologies, often exploiting distrust in institutions like healthcare. They explore how wellness influencers leverage emotional appeal, certainty, and fear-mongering to market alternative health solutions.

They also discuss how a strong focus on individualism contributes to the spread of medical misinformation and how social media plays a big role in making these ideas more popular. The conversation also touches on figures like RFK Jr. and the Make America Healthy Again movement, which advocates for food regulation while paradoxically aligning with deregulation-focused politics. Dr Block and Barris went further to discuss how physicians can push back by fostering trust, communicating uncertainty effectively, and engaging in social media discourse.

Bio

Derek Beres is an author, speaker, and media expert based in Portland, Oregon. He has held senior editorial positions at various tech companies and has extensive experience in health, science, and music writing. Beres regularly speaks on science and media literacy and is the co-host of the Conspirituality podcast, which examines the convergence of conspiracy theories and wellness culture.

In addition to his work in media, Beres is a certified group fitness instructor, having taught yoga, studio cycling, and kettlebell classes at Equinox Fitness from 2004 to 2020. He is also the co-founder of EarthRise SoundSystem, a music production duo that has released records with Six Degrees Records and collaborated with artists like Vieux Farka Touré.

Beres has authored several books, including Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat, Global Beat Fusion: The History of the Future of Music, and Hero's Dose: The Case for Psychedelics in Ritual and Therapy. His writing has been featured in over 40 publications, such as Time, Rolling Stone, The Boston Globe, Teen Vogue, Salon, Women’s Health, and National Geographic.

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