Ep 11: John Harper | Literature and Medicine

03/02/16 • 48 min

The Medmastery Show - with Franz Wiesbauer MD

Dr. Harper is the Chair of Cardiology, at the Presbyterian Dallas Hospital . He was voted “Best Doctor in Dallas” by D Magazine and according to the Guide to top Doctors is among the best doctors in America. His clinical interests include bedside cardiology, he used to be an intervent. cardiologist but is now focussing more on being a consultant and on intensive care, he’s a passionate teacher and spends roughly 1/3 of his time teaching residents and medical students at the University of Texas Soutwestern Medicalschool. In 2009 he launched a unique conference entitled “Literature and Medicine”. In this podcast, Dr. Harper will teach you how you can use literature in order to become a better doctor, a better storyteller, a more empathetic listener and much, much more. This is a unique conversation with lots of pieces of wisdom. I really enjoyed it and I hope you will too. So without further ado, here’s Dr. John Harper.

Previous Episode

Ep 10: David Albert | Entrepreneurship in Medicine

Today’s guest is cardiologist inventor Dr. David Albert. Dr. Dave as he’s also called on Twitter is the founder of AliveCor a great company with a great product.

In this interview you'll learn how to become an entrepreneur and inventor in medicine. Dr Albert shares great advice including:

which team members you need to get your medical startup on track,
what character traits he is looking for when hiring,
and several more highly useful tips.

About David Albert

Dr Albert had a quite unusual career for a doctor. At med school he took a break to earn a degree in engineering and since then founded several companies like AliveCor, InnovAlarm and Lifetone Technology. His previous startups include Corazonix Corp and Data Critical that he both sold. Data Critical was actually sold to GE where he then worked between 2001 and 2004. At the end of his tenure there he was the Chief Clinical Scientist in Cardiology. Dr. Albert has 32 issued US patents, a large number pending patents and several new "secret inventions" in development. He has authored or co-authored over 50 scientific abstracts and publications mainly in the field of Cardiology. He has lectured at the Entrepreneurship programs at the MIT Sloan School and the University of Oklahoma. He graduated with Honors from Harvard College and from Duke University Medical School.

For more show-notes, please visit our blog at www.medmastery.com/blog

Next Episode

Ep 12: Judson Brewer | Mindfulness in Medicine

Welcome to Episode 12 of the Medmastery Show. I’m super excited about today’s episode. First off - let me tell you, we’ve been super busy these last couple of weeks creating brand-new courses and workshops that will help you become the best clinician you can possibly be.

Some of these courses are already online some will be published in the upcoming months. So stay tune. But back to this episode:

Today’s guest is Judson Brewer MD an internationally acclaimed psychiatrist and mindfulness expert. His talks at TED and TEDMED on the use of mindfulness techniques in medicine have hit over 5 million views.

Dr. Brewer has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for addiction, including both in-person and app-based treatments.

In this interview, Judson explains how we can use mindfulness for ourselves and our patients to help us become happier and more fulfilled in our jobs and daily lives.

So without further ado, here’s Judson Brewer.

Among other things, we’ll cover:

What is mindfulness and how you can use it in your life and patients
What are the differences between the most common forms of meditation
Why mindfulness is over five times more effective than traditional addiction therapy
How Judson meditates
Why you are probably addicted and what you can do about it
Why you need to start meditating and how to do it
And much, much more

If you like this episode, then absolutely make sure to also check out Dr. Brewer’s TED talks, which you can find in the show notes at www.medmastery.com/magazine.