intro: Building Your Emotional Bench
From July 2020, UFBs: Unidentified Foreign BodiesA career in medicine has unique challenges that arise throughout one’s career. Having a “bench” or tool box so to say of skills that can help healthcare providers navigate these challenges is important and can lead to increased career satisfaction, longevity, and decreased burn out. •
9minMike Weinstock, MD and Matthieu DeClerck, MD
COVID-19 Lessons From NYC
From April 2020, COVID-19 Lessons From NYCPatients with COVID-19 present in a variety of ways, and urgent care clinicians need to have a low index of suspicion for diagnosis. Management involves emergency referral for patients with a low oxygen saturation. Every patient should be treated as if they could have COVID-19.
22min 44Frank Illuzzi, MD, Mike Weinstock, MD, and Matthieu DeClerck, MD
Impact of COVID-19 on Healthcare Workers
From March 2020, Impact of COVID-19 on Healthcare WorkersOur panel of podcast hosts from a variety of practice settings discuss the logistical and psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers and discuss strategies to mitigate the stress associated with the pandemic.
19min 37Solomon Behar, MD, Neda Frayha, MD, Mike Weinstock, MD, and Matthieu DeClerck, MD
Beyond Pixar: Perfectionism, EQ, and the Middle Way
From January 2019, Can't We All Just Get Along?What does the former CFO of Pixar have to do with physician burnout and the culture of medicine? We find out in this segment. Neda interviews Dr. Todd Cassese and Lawrence Levy, who helped build Pixar into the company it is today. Together they talk about changing professional cultures, the …
23min 43Neda Frayha, MD, Lawrence Levy, JD, and Todd Cassese, MD
Beyond Pixar: Self-Care and the System
From January 2019, Can't We All Just Get Along?What does the former CFO of Pixar have to do with physician burnout and the culture of medicine? We find out in this segment. Neda interviews Dr. Todd Cassese and Lawrence Levy, who helped build Pixar into the company it is today. Together they talk about the need for continuous self-care rather …
15min 55Neda Frayha, MD, Lawrence Levy, JD, and Todd Cassese, MD
Decision Fatigue
From December 2018, Head, Shoulders, Knees and ToesIf you haven’t heard the term decision fatigue, you need to familiarize yourself with it. In the psychology literature, decision fatigue refers to the reduction in quality of decisions made by a person after long periods of decision making. It is an interesting phenomenon. There are descriptions of …
15min 9Sam Ashoo, MD and Neda Frayha, MD
In Shock
From December 2018, Head, Shoulders, Knees and ToesDr. Rana Awdish, a pulmonary and critical care physician in Detroit, Michigan, wrote an incredibly powerful, bestselling memoir (In Shock) about her own experiences as a critical care patient. In this segment, she sits down with Neda Frayha to talk about healing, the ways the giant medical …
23min 29Rana Awdish, MD and Neda Frayha, MD
Avoid Burnout With Stress Growth
From August 2018, Avoiding BurnoutMedicine is stressful. And how we manage that stress makes all the difference. Dr. AK Kalantari shares her insight and perspective on handling stress so that we actually convert it into a positive experience rather than weigh us down.
27min 15Mizuho Morrison, DO and Annahieta Kalantari, DO
The Urgent Care RAP Hot Sheet: March 2017
From March 2017, The Urgent Care RAP Hot Sheet: March 2017Andrew discusses the effects of Social media on a physicians’ well being & sense of isolation, and new findings for the potential treatment of MRSA. •
5min 30Andrew Buelt, DO