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Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng is the founder of the Resource Optimization Network and a critical care and palliative care physician. He is also the host of the Solving Healthcare Podcast. He is also Canadian, so we discuss the Canadian Healthcare System, which, on its surface, looks like a comprehensive, all encompassing, federally administered single-payor system, like what some of the democrats are discussing in the US. We discuss why this is not the case, and get into some of the details about what isn’t covered, how it is more of a provincial system and what are the differences in provinces. We discuss how the money flows through the system and how private insurance can play a role in some ancillary services. And true to the name of his podcast, at the end, we solve healthcare. Dr. Kyeremanteng was born and raised in Edmonton where he did his medical school at the University of Alberta. He and his wife then moved to Ottawa where he did his Internal Medicine residency training at the University of Ottawa followed by a two-year fellowship program in Palliative Care and Critical Care. He stayed after his training and is now an Assistant Professor in the Division of Palliative Care and Critical Care Medicine. He also has research positions with Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) & Institut du-savoir Montfort as a Senior Clinician Investigator. His academic interests include the integration of Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit as well as health services research and cost evaluations. More information regarding his current research interests and projects can be found here. Find this and all episodes on your favorite podcast platform at PhysiciansGuidetoDoctoring.com\ Please be sure to leave a five-star review, a nice comment and SHARE!!! This medical podcast is your physician mentor to fill the gaps in your medical education. We cover physician soft skills, charting, interpersonal skills, doctor finance, doctor mental health, medical decisions, physician parenting, physician executive skills, navigating your doctor career, and medical professional development. This is critical CME for physicians, but without the credits (yet). A proud founding member of the Doctor Podcast Network!Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com to connect, dive deeper, and keep the conversation going. Let’s grow! Disclaimer:This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical, financial, or legal advice. Always consult a qualified professional for personalized guidance.

Adam E. Block, PhD, is a recurring guest, having spoken previously about common misconceptions of the Affordable Care Act, and Medicare for All. Today we will be discussing the how erring on the side of an earlier end to shelter in place could have a worse impact on the economy than waiting longer. We also discuss what a return to work could possibly look like and when can we expect our elective patients to start coming back to the offices. In our industry and many others, it is important to be able to pivot and adapt to the new needs created by this virus. From a public health perspective, we also talk about when the risk of poverty as a social determinant of health starts to outweigh the risk of the coronavirus itself and what populations are at highest economic risk. Dr. Block is currently an Assistant Professor of Public Health at the School of Health Sciences and Practice at New York Medical College. He is a health economist with deep experience in the hospital, health plan and government sectors. His research is focuses on how individuals make decisions in health care markets including patient choice of hospitals, physicians and insurance plans.  Prior to joining New York Medical College in 2017, has worked for a major hospital system, a large Medicaid managed care plan, spent several years developing the legislation on the Affordable Care Act as an economist at the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation and later as Division Director of Health Plan Policy in the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at CMS.  In July, 2018 Dr. Block founded Charm Economics, LLC a translational economics consulting group.  His consulting work focuses on managed care contracting and pricing optimization of new technology and data analytics.  Dr. Block received his PhD in Health Policy from Harvard and undergraduate degree in neuroscience from Amherst College. @AdamBHealthEcon on Twitter CharmEconomics.com Please be sure to leave a five-star review, a nice comment and SHARE!!! This and all episodes can be found at PhysiciansGuidetoDoctoring.com This medical podcast is your physician mentor to fill the gaps in your medical education. We cover physician soft skills, charting, interpersonal skills, doctor finance, doctor mental health, medical decisions, physician parenting, physician executive skills, navigating your doctor career, and medical professional development. This is critical CME for physicians, but without the credits (yet). A proud founding member of the Doctor Podcast Network!Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com to connect, dive deeper, and keep the conversation going. Let’s grow! Disclaimer:This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical, financial, or legal advice. Always consult a qualified professional for personalized guidance.

Robyn Symon is a two-time Emmy Award-winner, and an accomplished writer, producer/director, and editor. She is the producer and director of the documentary film, Do No Harm, about the healthcare system that drives us to take our lives. We discuss how prevalent physician suicide is and how the real numbers and demographics are so difficult to track. We talk about the difference between paying lip service to change and what changes may actually help. We also talk about how the current coronavirus epidemic will make more apparent how overtaxed and overburdened many physicians really are. There will be an upcoming virtual screening on April 19 (see below).   Ms. Symon began as a television news reporter in Texas, then joined PBS in Miami where she hosted and produced documentaries, public affairs programs and the TV series Florida! (6 seasons; Travel Channel). She wrote and produced the docu-series “Voices of Vision,” which focused on the work of non-profit organizations worldwide. She has produced hundreds of hours of TV series for major cable networks including Discovery, CNBC, HGTV and currently produces a series on the Reelz Channel. DoNoHarmFilm.com Virtual Screening WHEN: Sunday, April 19th at 8 PM EST/7 PM CT/5 PM PST WHERE: FOR TICKETS: ZOOM WEBINAR LINK https://zoom.us/webinar/register/8715849795868/WN_x--X68dnR_i6_kTXvCyVFA This medical podcast is your physician mentor to fill the gaps in your medical education. We cover physician soft skills, charting, interpersonal skills, doctor finance, doctor mental health, medical decisions, physician parenting, physician executive skills, navigating your doctor career, and medical professional development. This is critical CME for physicians, but without the credits (yet). A proud founding member of the Doctor Podcast Network!Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com to connect, dive deeper, and keep the conversation going. Let’s grow! Disclaimer:This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical, financial, or legal advice. Always consult a qualified professional for personalized guidance.

While this episode was recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic, it is all the more relevant. Meditation is an arrow we should all have in our quivers. After over 10 years practicing Internal Medicine at Rush University Medical Center, Dr. Jill Wener knows firsthand what severe stress and burnout feel like. In the midst of her own burnout, she was introduced to Conscious Health Meditation, and it had a profound effect on her resilience and reactivity. After 2 years of coursework, Dr. Wener completed her 3-month teacher training in Rishikesh, India in April, 2016 and now teaches meditation, among other stress reduction techniques, full-time, primarily to physicians. This is an introduction to meditation. She starts by defining meditation and then delve into the different types, and why she has chosen to teach Conscious Health Medication over the others. She is a skeptic turned believer and helps us to start heading in that direction. In addition to meditation, she also teaches tapping, similar to exposure therapy, and we briefly discuss this as well. Dr. Wener’s 8+ years of practicing and teaching stress-reduction modalities such as meditation and tapping, combined with the teaching and mentoring skills developed during her academic medical career, her personal experience with burnout, and her intimate understanding of the healthcare system, make her uniquely suited to teach meditation and other stress-reduction techniques to healthcare professionals from all fields. theresttechnique.com/ jillwener.com/ Please be sure to leave a five-star review, a nice comment and SHARE!!! This and all episodes can be found at PhysiciansGuidetoDoctoring.com This medical podcast is your physician mentor to fill the gaps in your medical education. We cover physician soft skills, charting, interpersonal skills, doctor finance, doctor mental health, medical decisions, physician parenting, physician executive skills, navigating your doctor career, and medical professional development. This is critical CME for physicians, but without the credits (yet). A proud founding member of the Doctor Podcast Network!Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com to connect, dive deeper, and keep the conversation going. Let’s grow! Disclaimer:This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical, financial, or legal advice. Always consult a qualified professional for personalized guidance.

Nathalie Martinek, PhD is a recovering developmental and cancer biologist who transitioned out of the controlled environment of the laboratory into the messy world of human behavior and relationships. She continues to apply her critical and objective lens honed as a scientist to understanding drivers of human behavior in the various relationships that exist in healthcare contexts to discover what prevents and promotes wellbeing and professional satisfaction. Dr. Martinek is a speaker, listener, coach and consultant who facilitates training programs and workshops worldwide for diverse health professional audiences to enhance their capacity for human connection, abuse prevention and healing through cultivation of psychologically safe and stable therapeutic partnerships. She recently published her first book, The Little Book of Assertiveness, to provide scripts for shifting power dynamics in professional relationships to embody the qualities of a respectful and compassionate healthcare culture that enables everyone to thrive. We discuss how to be assertive in a hierarchical environment like medicine without offending your superiors – and it starts with being curious. We then pivot into discussing compassion fatigue, first by defining it and then by exploring ways to interact with patients in a way that doesn’t end with us unnecessarily burdening ourselves with no benefit to the patients. We then end with some self-care practices that allow us to process those burdens. Find her at drnathaliemartinek.com Please be sure to leave a five-star review, a nice comment and SHARE!!! This and all episodes can be found at PhysiciansGuidetoDoctoring.com This medical podcast is your physician mentor to fill the gaps in your medical education. We cover physician soft skills, charting, interpersonal skills, doctor finance, doctor mental health, medical decisions, physician parenting, physician executive skills, navigating your doctor career, and medical professional development. This is critical CME for physicians, but without the credits (yet). A proud founding member of the Doctor Podcast Network!Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com to connect, dive deeper, and keep the conversation going. Let’s grow! Disclaimer:This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical, financial, or legal advice. Always consult a qualified professional for personalized guidance.

What can an English professor with expertise in Victorian Literature teach us about the coronavirus? Germ theory became popularized during that era, so this is when people realized that we were the vectors of our own illnesses. One would think that this would cause us to isolate ourselves from one another, like we are doing now, but the literature of the time, which reflects the thinking of the time, shows us that it brought us closer together. A message of hope in these dire times. Dr. Kari Nixon is an assistant professor of English at Whitworth University. She teaches medical humanities, Victorian literature, and is forever interested in death, disease, risk, and why we fear them. Dr. Nixon’s work has been shared on Huffington Post, March for Science, and more. Her first book, “Kept from All Contagion:” Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact will be in print Spring 2020. She got her PhD at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, with a dissertation in Victorian Bioethics, which she turned into the aforementioned book. She teaches both Victorian literature and contemporary medical humanities. She can be found at MKNixon.com Find this and all episodes on your favorite podcast platform at PhysiciansGuidetoDoctoring.com Please be sure to leave a five-star review, a nice comment and SHARE!!! This medical podcast is your physician mentor to fill the gaps in your medical education. We cover physician soft skills, charting, interpersonal skills, doctor finance, doctor mental health, medical decisions, physician parenting, physician executive skills, navigating your doctor career, and medical professional development. This is critical CME for physicians, but without the credits (yet). A proud founding member of the Doctor Podcast Network!Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com to connect, dive deeper, and keep the conversation going. Let’s grow! Disclaimer:This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical, financial, or legal advice. Always consult a qualified professional for personalized guidance.

Stephanie Streit is a trauma surgeon at University Medical Center in Las Vegas. She went to med school at the University of Cincinnati and did a general surgery residency at MUSC. She is currently active duty in the Air Force. She is also the host of the Breaking Scrub Podcast, where she interviews surgeons about the interesting things we do outside of the operating room. She is convinced that success outside of the OR breeds success in the OR. Did you hear that, med student? Stop tying knots and pick up your clarinet! We start out talking about some of the more routine and mundane parts of being a trauma surgeon. We then discuss something I didn’t quite expect: how important it is to her to address the mental trauma, not just the physical trauma, in her patients. We then discuss the beginning of a trauma assessment, which is CAB, not ABC and how stopping a life-threatening hemorrhage is likely the only thing you can do if you find yourself at the scene of a trauma. Hold pressure and stop the bleeding! We close with discussing why we podcast and her biggest takeaway from her show. Find this and all episodes on your favorite podcast platform at PhysiciansGuidetoDoctoring.com   Please be sure to leave a five-star review, a nice comment and SHARE!!!   This episode is brought to you by Orange County Bookkeepers (OCB) Healthcare Accounting: an all in one accounting firm for small healthcare businesses and private medical practices. One thing that I personally love about OCB Accountants, is that they are QuickBook professionals with over 20 years’ experience, focusing specifically on healthcare. They utilize a tailored approach individualized to your needs. They are a full-service bookkeeping firm specializing in accounting, payroll, taxes and financial planning. For our listeners, for a limited time, they are offering 25% off their services for the first 3 months. You can visit them at OCBmed.com or call 833-671-3873 or 949-215-6200. This medical podcast is your physician mentor to fill the gaps in your medical education. We cover physician soft skills, charting, interpersonal skills, doctor finance, doctor mental health, medical decisions, physician parenting, physician executive skills, navigating your doctor career, and medical professional development. This is critical CME for physicians, but without the credits (yet). A proud founding member of the Doctor Podcast Network!Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com to connect, dive deeper, and keep the conversation going. Let’s grow! Disclaimer:This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical, financial, or legal advice. Always consult a qualified professional for personalized guidance.

Dr. Frank Cusimano, PhD, has a doctorate in Nutrition and Metabolic Biology from Columbia University and is currently a medical student at the Arizona College of Osteopathic medicine. Having done his PhD on the gut microbiome, a hot topic, we dive into the science of prebiotics, probiotics, postbiotics and antibiotics. What can we actually recommend to patients to help them with GI upset while on antibiotics? How does the microbiome influence inflammatory bowel disease? How can the gut actually influence our brains? A previous guest discussed how the colon is the window to the soul. Turns out there’s science behind that! Having been a sponsored athlete as an adult, Dr. Cusimano is currently a medical student uniquely blending his understanding of biochemistry with human physiology and human potential. In college he received both a BS and BA from SMU in Chemistry and Biology and then went on to complete a MS from Johns Hopkins University in Biotechnology concentrating in Bioinformatics, all in addition to his PhD. He is the host of the Surviving Medicine Podcast and a regular contributor for Medscape and Doximity. Find this and all episodes on your favorite podcast platform at PhysiciansGuidetoDoctoring.com Please be sure to leave a five-star review, a nice comment and SHARE!!! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.cusimano/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/frank_cusimano Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/surviving.medicine/ Website: http://survivingmedicine.org/ Podcast: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/surviving-medicine/id1276029472?mt=2 This medical podcast is your physician mentor to fill the gaps in your medical education. We cover physician soft skills, charting, interpersonal skills, doctor finance, doctor mental health, medical decisions, physician parenting, physician executive skills, navigating your doctor career, and medical professional development. This is critical CME for physicians, but without the credits (yet). A proud founding member of the Doctor Podcast Network!Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com to connect, dive deeper, and keep the conversation going. Let’s grow! Disclaimer:This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical, financial, or legal advice. Always consult a qualified professional for personalized guidance.

Professor Nathan Lents studied biology at St. Louis University and then completed his PhD at St. Louis University’s school of medicine in Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences.  PhDs need residencies, too, so he did his postdoctoral training in cancer genomics at NYU and loved New York so much that he stayed and is now a Professor at John Jay College in Manhattan and director of the honors program.  His book, Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes, discusses the beauty of our flaws.  We are not the well-oiled machines that we think we are. This is part three out of three of my interview with Professor Lents. For the orthopods, we discuss how the wrist and ankles developed in such a nonsensical way, and why standing upright causes problems from herniated discs to ACL tears. For the OBs, we discuss reproduction and why infant mortality is so high, our ability to procreate is so inefficient, and if we are already so inefficient, how menopause can actually be advantageous for natural selection.  He maintains the Human Evolution Blog and his podcast is called This World of Humans. He can be found at NathanLents.com Find this and all episodes on your favorite podcast platform at PhysiciansGuidetoDoctoring.com   Please be sure to leave a five-star review, a nice comment and SHARE!!! This episode is brought to you by Orange County Bookkeepers (OCB) Healthcare Accounting: an all in one accounting firm for small healthcare businesses and private medical practices. One thing that I personally love about OCB Accountants, is that they are QuickBook professionals with over 20 years’ experience, focusing specifically on healthcare. They utilize a tailored approach individualized to your needs. They are a full-service bookkeeping firm specializing in accounting, payroll, taxes and financial planning. For our listeners, for a limited time, they are offering 25% off their services for the first 3 months. You can visit them at OCBmed.com or call 833-671-3873 or 949-215-6200. This medical podcast is your physician mentor to fill the gaps in your medical education. We cover physician soft skills, charting, interpersonal skills, doctor finance, doctor mental health, medical decisions, physician parenting, physician executive skills, navigating your doctor career, and medical professional development. This is critical CME for physicians, but without the credits (yet). A proud founding member of the Doctor Podcast Network!Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com to connect, dive deeper, and keep the conversation going. Let’s grow! Disclaimer:This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical, financial, or legal advice. Always consult a qualified professional for personalized guidance.

Professor Nathan Lents studied biology at St. Louis University and then completed his PhD at St. Louis University’s school of medicine in Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences.  PhDs need residencies, too, so he did his postdoctoral training in cancer genomics at NYU and loved New York so much that he stayed and is now a Professor at John Jay College in Manhattan and director of the honors program.  His book, Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes, discusses the beauty of our flaws.  We are not the well-oiled machines that we think we are.  This is part two out of three of my interview with Professor Lents. In this episode, we talk about how anthropologists have actually informed our current knowledge of nutritional science from the perspective of “how were we designed to eat?” We then get into the weeds with a few medical specialties. For the ENTs, we discuss how the recurrent laryngeal ended up in the chest, why humans are the only primates who choke on their food, and what the heck do the sinuses really do? He maintains the Human Evolution Blog and his podcast is called This World of Humans. He can be found at NathanLents.com Find this and all episodes on your favorite podcast platform at PhysiciansGuidetoDoctoring.com   Please be sure to leave a five-star review, a nice comment and SHARE!!!   This episode is brought to you by Orange County Bookkeepers (OCB) Healthcare Accounting: an all in one accounting firm for small healthcare businesses and private medical practices. One thing that I personally love about OCB Accountants, is that they are QuickBook professionals with over 20 years’ experience, focusing specifically on healthcare. They utilize a tailored approach individualized to your needs. They are a full-service bookkeeping firm specializing in accounting, payroll, taxes and financial planning. For our listeners, for a limited time, they are offering 25% off their services for the first 3 months. You can visit them at OCBmed.com or call 833-671-3873 or 949-215-6200. This medical podcast is your physician mentor to fill the gaps in your medical education. We cover physician soft skills, charting, interpersonal skills, doctor finance, doctor mental health, medical decisions, physician parenting, physician executive skills, navigating your doctor career, and medical professional development. This is critical CME for physicians, but without the credits (yet). A proud founding member of the Doctor Podcast Network!Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com to connect, dive deeper, and keep the conversation going. Let’s grow! Disclaimer:This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical, financial, or legal advice. Always consult a qualified professional for personalized guidance.