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465 episodes


Dr. Uché Blackstock is an emergency medicine physician who is passionate about addressing the detrimental effects of structural racism on health outcomes. We discuss the origins of structural racism and how this continues to influence the health outcomes of minorities. She then gives us some tools for reflecting on our own biases and how we can work to address them. In addition to patient care, we talk about improving the diversity of faculty, and the importance of mentorship and sponsorship. We end by discussing something each of us can start doing tomorrow in order to address our own biases. Dr. Blackstock went to Harvard for both undergrad and medical school, did her emergency medicine residency at SUNY Downstate/ King’s County Hospital Center and then a fellowship in ultrasound at St. Luke’s Roosevelt. She is now associate professor at NYU as well as the faculty director of recruitment, retention and inclusion at the office of diversity affairs at the medical school. She recently started her company Advancing Health Equity, which aims to partner with healthcare organizations to address some of the critical factors that contribute to health inequity, through educational trainings and racial equity culture analytics. She can be found at advancinghealthequity.com (http://advancinghealthequity.com/) and on Twitter @dr_uche_bee. The implicit bias test that she discussed can be found here: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html 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!!! Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com (http://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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
39min | Published on November 21, 2019


Adam Brown, MD, is a rheumatologist at Cleveland Clinic and the host of the Rheuminations podcast (https://www.healio.com/rheumatology/podcasts/rheuminations). For the med students out there, we discuss why someone would choose rheumatology and why they are frequently the smartest doctors in the hospital. We discuss the basics of arthritis, how to interpret an ANA and why we shouldn’t be so laser-focused on our own organ systems if a patient isn’t improving as expected. We also discuss why gout is such an underappreciated phenomenon. Dr. Brown went to med school at the University of New Mexico and then did residency Georgetown in Internal Medicine. He then did fellowships in rheumatology and vasculitis, both at Cleveland Clinic, where he currently practices. He authored Rheumatology Made Ridiculously Simple, a herculean feat for such a complex specialty. 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!!! Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com (http://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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
38min | Published on November 21, 2019


This is part two of the interview with Dr. Stacia Dearmin. She builds on the idea of the physician’s second victim status in bad outcome and potentially in litigation. The plaintiff’s attorney can weaponize our empathy against us after a bad outcome and she teaches us how to defend against that. She builds on ideas on how to recover that were discussed in the first episode. She is a speaker, coach, consultant and blogger on the topic. She went to medical school at Case Western Reserve and has a masters in religion and ethics from Vanderbilt. She did her residency in pediatrics at Akron Children’s Hospital and worked as a general pediatrician for a few years. She has worked as a pediatric emergency medicine physician since 2004. After working at Case Western Rainbow Babies, she is back at Akron Children’s Hospital. She is the founder of thrivephysician.com (https://www.thrivephysician.com/), where she focuses exclusively on the well-being of physicians facing adverse outcomes and malpractice litigation. Her experience in practice raised her awareness of the deep pain and isolation that physicians experience after an adverse outcome or in the midst of a lawsuit. She alleviates that isolation and provides insight and support around some of the toughest experiences many physicians will face in their careers. She draws on her personal story to illuminate the experience for physicians and to educate about the needs of physician defendants. She has created a course to help us at deposition. "Deposition Magic (https://thrivephysician.mykajabi.com/deposition-magic-detail)" is a new course designed to give physician-defendants exactly what they need to know to soar at their own deposition. In a series of brief, friendly videos, you'll explore the nature and purpose of deposition, the goals and tactics of the opposing attorney, and most importantly, the high-integrity mindset and strategies that will serve you as a physician-defendant. Together, we'll exchange confusion and anxiety for clarity and calm, and help you to level the playing field at deposition. Available to you online on-demand, "Deposition Magic" confers up to 3 hrs Category I CME. 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!!! Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com (http://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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
33min | Published on November 21, 2019


Dr. Stacia Dearmin can help us get through adverse patient outcomes and malpractice litigation. She has been through it herself. She is a speaker, coach, consultant and blogger on the topic. She went to medical school at Case Western Reserve and has a masters in religion and ethics from Vanderbilt. She did her residency in pediatrics at Akron Children’s Hospital and worked as a general pediatrician for a few years. She has worked as a pediatric emergency medicine physician since 2004. After working at Case Western Rainbow Babies, she is back at Akron Children’s Hospital. She is the founder of thrivephysician.com (https://www.thrivephysician.com/), where she focuses exclusively on the well-being of physicians facing adverse outcomes and malpractice litigation. Her experience in practice raised her awareness of the deep pain and isolation that physicians experience after an adverse outcome or in the midst of a lawsuit. She alleviates that isolation and provides insight and support around some of the toughest experiences many physicians will face in their careers. She draws on her personal story to illuminate the experience for physicians and to educate about the needs of physician defendants. We start out discussing the statistics about how frequently physicians are sued and why we never talk to each other about it. Her own experience with an adverse outcome and lawsuit led to the creation of thrivephysician.com (http://www.thrivephysician.com/). We learn about the second victim and how being a second victim can take its toll on physicians especially amidst the isolation put upon us by the legal system. We learn how to start recovering. She has created a course to help us at deposition. "Deposition Magic (https://thrivephysician.mykajabi.com/deposition-magic-detail)" is a new course designed to give physician-defendants exactly what they need to know to soar at their own deposition. In a series of brief, friendly videos, you'll explore the nature and purpose of deposition, the goals and tactics of the opposing attorney, and most importantly, the high-integrity mindset and strategies that will serve you as a physician-defendant. Together, we'll exchange confusion and anxiety for clarity and calm, and help you to level the playing field at deposition. Available to you online on-demand, "Deposition Magic" confers up to 3 hrs Category I CME. 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!!! Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com (http://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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
43min | Published on November 21, 2019


Professor Sarah Mojarad is a lecturer at the University of Southern California where she holds joint- faculty appointments in Viterbi School of Engineering and Keck School of Medicine. We discussed why we should act online like our first-grade teacher is reading all of our tweets and even our emails. Her areas of expertise are in social media, science communication, and online medical professionalism. Prior to joining USC, Professor Mojarad was at Caltech where she co-created the course “Social Media for Scientists” and now she teaches us Social Media for Physicians. It’s believed to be the first course of its kind to educate students on the issues and opportunities of social media-based science communication. You can find her at smojarad.com (https://smojarad.com/) and @Sarah_Mojarad on Twitter. She gave us some tips for communicating complicated medical information – keep it simple, but include links to your bibliography. We talked about how pseudoscience and purveyors of misinformation gain traction by tugging at heartstrings and that we may be able to use those tools for good. In the end, our real audience, the ones who are really listening, may not be who it seems, it is the unseen lurkers, so get out there and don’t let the trolls get you down. 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!!! Snapchat talking point: https://www.dovepress.com/evaluation-of-the-snapchat-mobile-social-networking-application-for-br-peer-reviewed-article-BCTT (https://www.dovepress.com/evaluation-of-the-snapchat-mobile-social-networking-application-for-br-peer-reviewed-article-BCTT) Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com (http://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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
40min | Published on September 14, 2019


On today’s show we speak to allergist, Dr. Payel Gupta about penicillin allergy. Dr. Gupta is triple board certified in Allergy & Immunology, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine and currently has a practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with ENT and Allergy Associates. We discuss how common penicillin allergy is and how commonly the diagnosis is incorrect. She goes through the four types of hypersensitivity reaction, and then focus in on type I, the IgE-mediated reaction. We go through presentation, treatment, and some commonly confused conditions. She teaches us how penicillin testing is done, why we can trust it and dispels some misconceptions about penicillin allergy. Dr. Gupta earned her medical degree from Michigan State University; and then pursued a residency in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She then moved to New York City where she completed a fellowship in Allergy and Immunology at the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center. She is currently on the board of the New York Allergy and Asthma Society and serves as the treasurer/ secretary. She is also a National Spokesperson for the American Lung Association. Find her podcast at itchpodcast.com (http://itchpodcast.com/) and follow her on Instagram @nycdoctor (https://www.instagram.com/nycdoctor/). 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!!! Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com (http://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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
29min | Published on September 12, 2019


Scott Dikkers founded the world’s first humor website, TheOnion.com (http://www.theonion.com/), in 1996. A few years earlier he helped found the original Onion newspaper. He’s served as The Onion’s owner and editor-in-chief, on and off, for much of the last quarter century. He led The Onion’s rise from small, unknown college humor publication to internationally respected comedy brand. He is also a New York Times best seller, and Peabody Award winner. He documented his process for creating humor in his book, How to Write Funny (https://amzn.to/2NaWrDR), and the second in the series, How to Write Funnier (https://amzn.to/2AVymgR), and next on the way, How to Write Funniest, which are the basis of the Writing with The Onion (http://www.secondcity.com/classes/chicago/basic-writing-with-the-onion/) program he created and teaches at The Second City Training Center in Chicago. Scott offers other courses and free resources for comedy writers on the How to Write Funny (https://howtowritefunny.com/) website. He first dispels the myth that funny is innate an then we dive into how to be funny, starting with how to just dip our toes in the water. He teaches us how to recover from a failed joke, how to joke about subjects that might seem taboo, how to work humor into our office visits and lectures. Apparently, stand-up comics are jealous of our mundane topics. He has a system of 11 funny filters, or types of humor of which all jokes are made, and which are the most and least appropriate for physicians. If you take nothing else away from this, the one rule to follow for comedy is to afflict the comfortable while comforting the afflicted. Afflicting the comfortable might be out of our comfort zones, but comforting the afflicted is what we do! 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!!! #SOMEDOCs #funnydoc #docfunny #phunnyphysician #docmcfunny Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com (http://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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
44min | Published on September 6, 2019


On today’s episode, we discuss the characteristics that predict an individual’s propensity to build wealth, why physicians have a bed reputation in this department and what we can do to improve, with industrial psychologist, Dr. Sarah Stanley Fallaw. Dr. Fallaw is the author of The Next Millionaire Next Door and the founder of DataPoints LLC, a research and technology company that provides advisors and individuals with behavioral science tools to achieve financial success. DataPoints created the industry's first assessment of individual propensity to build wealth based on The Millionaire Next Door. Her research on psychometrics and financial psychology has been featured in conferences and publications including Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Journal of Financial Services Professionals. Sarah received her Ph.D. in Applied Psychology from the University of Georgia in 2003. We dive into the six behavioral components that contribute to an individual’s propensity to build wealth: social indifference, frugality, an internal locus of control, confidence in financial literacy, contentiousness, and planning and monitoring. We discuss how a few big decisions can have far reaching consequences on our ability to accumulate wealth, like choosing a neighborhood and choosing a spouse and creating a long-term financial plan. She gives us some smaller habits to help us develop our wealth building potential, like suggestions for apps that allow us to check in on our finances easily, reading blogs or books to allow us to realize how much control we do have, and we end with how she is passing that wealth building mindset on to her children. Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com (http://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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
49min | Published on August 29, 2019


Travis Hornsby founded Student Loan Planner after helping his physician wife navigate ridiculously complex student loan repayment decisions. He helps us parse through the complexity of optimizing your student loan repayment strategy. He gives us an overview of the different repayment systems, who qualifies and who doesn’t and why it seems like nobody qualifies right now. We get a little political as he predicts what’s going to happen to the current system as well as the student loan forgiveness the democrats are discussing. To date, Student Loan Planner has consulted on over half a billion in student debt. Travis is a Chartered Financial Analyst and brings his background as a former bond trader, trading billions of dollars. He brings that same intensity to analyzing the best repayment paths for graduate degree professionals with six figures of student debt. Student Loan Planner has helped over 2,000 clients save over $100 million dollars on their student loans. Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com (http://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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
49min | Published on August 23, 2019


Megan Gerber, MD, MPH is a general internist with a career-long focus on the medical care of trauma-exposed women. We start out defining trauma and then get introduced to trauma-informed care. Interfacing with the medical system and physicians can be traumatizing and triggering, so we discussed ways to minimize that, and why it actually isn’t important to identify who needs trauma informed care. We should be taking a “universal precautions” like approach. She teaches us how to incorporate a routine of respectful care and how we can get the staff involved. The approach to patients needs to change from questions like “what’s wrong with you?” to “what happened to you?” but this needs to happen within the confines of our time limited schedules, so Dr. Gerber teaches out how to be effective while still respecting the time of those in the waiting room. She is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University and Medical Director of Women’s Health at VA Boston. She holds an adjunct appointment as Lecturer on Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her work focuses on optimizing medical outcomes for women who have experienced trauma as well as adapting systems of care to be “trauma-informed” and sensitive to the needs of survivors. She has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications on intimate partner violence and is the editor of the recently released Springer book, “Trauma-informed Healthcare Approaches: A Guide for Primary Care (https://www.amazon.com/Trauma-Informed-Healthcare-Approaches-Guide-Primary/dp/303004341X).” After a brief hiatus, she is now back and very active on Twitter at @meggerber https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/profile/megan-gerber/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Megan_Gerber Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com (http://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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
44min | Published on August 14, 2019
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Dr. Uché Blackstock is an emergency medicine physician who is passionate about addressing the detrimental effects of structural racism on health outcomes. We discuss the origins of structural racism and how this continues to influence the health outcomes of minorities. She then gives us some tools for reflecting on our own biases and how we can work to address them. In addition to patient care, we talk about improving the diversity of faculty, and the importance of mentorship and sponsorship. We end by discussing something each of us can start doing tomorrow in order to address our own biases. Dr. Blackstock went to Harvard for both undergrad and medical school, did her emergency medicine residency at SUNY Downstate/ King’s County Hospital Center and then a fellowship in ultrasound at St. Luke’s Roosevelt. She is now associate professor at NYU as well as the faculty director of recruitment, retention and inclusion at the office of diversity affairs at the medical school. She recently started her company Advancing Health Equity, which aims to partner with healthcare organizations to address some of the critical factors that contribute to health inequity, through educational trainings and racial equity culture analytics. She can be found at advancinghealthequity.com (http://advancinghealthequity.com/) and on Twitter @dr_uche_bee. The implicit bias test that she discussed can be found here: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html 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!!! Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com (http://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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
39min | Published on November 21, 2019


Adam Brown, MD, is a rheumatologist at Cleveland Clinic and the host of the Rheuminations podcast (https://www.healio.com/rheumatology/podcasts/rheuminations). For the med students out there, we discuss why someone would choose rheumatology and why they are frequently the smartest doctors in the hospital. We discuss the basics of arthritis, how to interpret an ANA and why we shouldn’t be so laser-focused on our own organ systems if a patient isn’t improving as expected. We also discuss why gout is such an underappreciated phenomenon. Dr. Brown went to med school at the University of New Mexico and then did residency Georgetown in Internal Medicine. He then did fellowships in rheumatology and vasculitis, both at Cleveland Clinic, where he currently practices. He authored Rheumatology Made Ridiculously Simple, a herculean feat for such a complex specialty. 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!!! Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com (http://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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
38min | Published on November 21, 2019


This is part two of the interview with Dr. Stacia Dearmin. She builds on the idea of the physician’s second victim status in bad outcome and potentially in litigation. The plaintiff’s attorney can weaponize our empathy against us after a bad outcome and she teaches us how to defend against that. She builds on ideas on how to recover that were discussed in the first episode. She is a speaker, coach, consultant and blogger on the topic. She went to medical school at Case Western Reserve and has a masters in religion and ethics from Vanderbilt. She did her residency in pediatrics at Akron Children’s Hospital and worked as a general pediatrician for a few years. She has worked as a pediatric emergency medicine physician since 2004. After working at Case Western Rainbow Babies, she is back at Akron Children’s Hospital. She is the founder of thrivephysician.com (https://www.thrivephysician.com/), where she focuses exclusively on the well-being of physicians facing adverse outcomes and malpractice litigation. Her experience in practice raised her awareness of the deep pain and isolation that physicians experience after an adverse outcome or in the midst of a lawsuit. She alleviates that isolation and provides insight and support around some of the toughest experiences many physicians will face in their careers. She draws on her personal story to illuminate the experience for physicians and to educate about the needs of physician defendants. She has created a course to help us at deposition. "Deposition Magic (https://thrivephysician.mykajabi.com/deposition-magic-detail)" is a new course designed to give physician-defendants exactly what they need to know to soar at their own deposition. In a series of brief, friendly videos, you'll explore the nature and purpose of deposition, the goals and tactics of the opposing attorney, and most importantly, the high-integrity mindset and strategies that will serve you as a physician-defendant. Together, we'll exchange confusion and anxiety for clarity and calm, and help you to level the playing field at deposition. Available to you online on-demand, "Deposition Magic" confers up to 3 hrs Category I CME. 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!!! Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com (http://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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
33min | Published on November 21, 2019


Dr. Stacia Dearmin can help us get through adverse patient outcomes and malpractice litigation. She has been through it herself. She is a speaker, coach, consultant and blogger on the topic. She went to medical school at Case Western Reserve and has a masters in religion and ethics from Vanderbilt. She did her residency in pediatrics at Akron Children’s Hospital and worked as a general pediatrician for a few years. She has worked as a pediatric emergency medicine physician since 2004. After working at Case Western Rainbow Babies, she is back at Akron Children’s Hospital. She is the founder of thrivephysician.com (https://www.thrivephysician.com/), where she focuses exclusively on the well-being of physicians facing adverse outcomes and malpractice litigation. Her experience in practice raised her awareness of the deep pain and isolation that physicians experience after an adverse outcome or in the midst of a lawsuit. She alleviates that isolation and provides insight and support around some of the toughest experiences many physicians will face in their careers. She draws on her personal story to illuminate the experience for physicians and to educate about the needs of physician defendants. We start out discussing the statistics about how frequently physicians are sued and why we never talk to each other about it. Her own experience with an adverse outcome and lawsuit led to the creation of thrivephysician.com (http://www.thrivephysician.com/). We learn about the second victim and how being a second victim can take its toll on physicians especially amidst the isolation put upon us by the legal system. We learn how to start recovering. She has created a course to help us at deposition. "Deposition Magic (https://thrivephysician.mykajabi.com/deposition-magic-detail)" is a new course designed to give physician-defendants exactly what they need to know to soar at their own deposition. In a series of brief, friendly videos, you'll explore the nature and purpose of deposition, the goals and tactics of the opposing attorney, and most importantly, the high-integrity mindset and strategies that will serve you as a physician-defendant. Together, we'll exchange confusion and anxiety for clarity and calm, and help you to level the playing field at deposition. Available to you online on-demand, "Deposition Magic" confers up to 3 hrs Category I CME. 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!!! Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com (http://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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
43min | Published on November 21, 2019


Professor Sarah Mojarad is a lecturer at the University of Southern California where she holds joint- faculty appointments in Viterbi School of Engineering and Keck School of Medicine. We discussed why we should act online like our first-grade teacher is reading all of our tweets and even our emails. Her areas of expertise are in social media, science communication, and online medical professionalism. Prior to joining USC, Professor Mojarad was at Caltech where she co-created the course “Social Media for Scientists” and now she teaches us Social Media for Physicians. It’s believed to be the first course of its kind to educate students on the issues and opportunities of social media-based science communication. You can find her at smojarad.com (https://smojarad.com/) and @Sarah_Mojarad on Twitter. She gave us some tips for communicating complicated medical information – keep it simple, but include links to your bibliography. We talked about how pseudoscience and purveyors of misinformation gain traction by tugging at heartstrings and that we may be able to use those tools for good. In the end, our real audience, the ones who are really listening, may not be who it seems, it is the unseen lurkers, so get out there and don’t let the trolls get you down. 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!!! Snapchat talking point: https://www.dovepress.com/evaluation-of-the-snapchat-mobile-social-networking-application-for-br-peer-reviewed-article-BCTT (https://www.dovepress.com/evaluation-of-the-snapchat-mobile-social-networking-application-for-br-peer-reviewed-article-BCTT) Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com (http://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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
40min | Published on September 14, 2019


On today’s show we speak to allergist, Dr. Payel Gupta about penicillin allergy. Dr. Gupta is triple board certified in Allergy & Immunology, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine and currently has a practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with ENT and Allergy Associates. We discuss how common penicillin allergy is and how commonly the diagnosis is incorrect. She goes through the four types of hypersensitivity reaction, and then focus in on type I, the IgE-mediated reaction. We go through presentation, treatment, and some commonly confused conditions. She teaches us how penicillin testing is done, why we can trust it and dispels some misconceptions about penicillin allergy. Dr. Gupta earned her medical degree from Michigan State University; and then pursued a residency in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She then moved to New York City where she completed a fellowship in Allergy and Immunology at the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center. She is currently on the board of the New York Allergy and Asthma Society and serves as the treasurer/ secretary. She is also a National Spokesperson for the American Lung Association. Find her podcast at itchpodcast.com (http://itchpodcast.com/) and follow her on Instagram @nycdoctor (https://www.instagram.com/nycdoctor/). 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!!! Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com (http://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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
29min | Published on September 12, 2019


Scott Dikkers founded the world’s first humor website, TheOnion.com (http://www.theonion.com/), in 1996. A few years earlier he helped found the original Onion newspaper. He’s served as The Onion’s owner and editor-in-chief, on and off, for much of the last quarter century. He led The Onion’s rise from small, unknown college humor publication to internationally respected comedy brand. He is also a New York Times best seller, and Peabody Award winner. He documented his process for creating humor in his book, How to Write Funny (https://amzn.to/2NaWrDR), and the second in the series, How to Write Funnier (https://amzn.to/2AVymgR), and next on the way, How to Write Funniest, which are the basis of the Writing with The Onion (http://www.secondcity.com/classes/chicago/basic-writing-with-the-onion/) program he created and teaches at The Second City Training Center in Chicago. Scott offers other courses and free resources for comedy writers on the How to Write Funny (https://howtowritefunny.com/) website. He first dispels the myth that funny is innate an then we dive into how to be funny, starting with how to just dip our toes in the water. He teaches us how to recover from a failed joke, how to joke about subjects that might seem taboo, how to work humor into our office visits and lectures. Apparently, stand-up comics are jealous of our mundane topics. He has a system of 11 funny filters, or types of humor of which all jokes are made, and which are the most and least appropriate for physicians. If you take nothing else away from this, the one rule to follow for comedy is to afflict the comfortable while comforting the afflicted. Afflicting the comfortable might be out of our comfort zones, but comforting the afflicted is what we do! 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!!! #SOMEDOCs #funnydoc #docfunny #phunnyphysician #docmcfunny Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com (http://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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
44min | Published on September 6, 2019


On today’s episode, we discuss the characteristics that predict an individual’s propensity to build wealth, why physicians have a bed reputation in this department and what we can do to improve, with industrial psychologist, Dr. Sarah Stanley Fallaw. Dr. Fallaw is the author of The Next Millionaire Next Door and the founder of DataPoints LLC, a research and technology company that provides advisors and individuals with behavioral science tools to achieve financial success. DataPoints created the industry's first assessment of individual propensity to build wealth based on The Millionaire Next Door. Her research on psychometrics and financial psychology has been featured in conferences and publications including Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Journal of Financial Services Professionals. Sarah received her Ph.D. in Applied Psychology from the University of Georgia in 2003. We dive into the six behavioral components that contribute to an individual’s propensity to build wealth: social indifference, frugality, an internal locus of control, confidence in financial literacy, contentiousness, and planning and monitoring. We discuss how a few big decisions can have far reaching consequences on our ability to accumulate wealth, like choosing a neighborhood and choosing a spouse and creating a long-term financial plan. She gives us some smaller habits to help us develop our wealth building potential, like suggestions for apps that allow us to check in on our finances easily, reading blogs or books to allow us to realize how much control we do have, and we end with how she is passing that wealth building mindset on to her children. Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com (http://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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
49min | Published on August 29, 2019


Travis Hornsby founded Student Loan Planner after helping his physician wife navigate ridiculously complex student loan repayment decisions. He helps us parse through the complexity of optimizing your student loan repayment strategy. He gives us an overview of the different repayment systems, who qualifies and who doesn’t and why it seems like nobody qualifies right now. We get a little political as he predicts what’s going to happen to the current system as well as the student loan forgiveness the democrats are discussing. To date, Student Loan Planner has consulted on over half a billion in student debt. Travis is a Chartered Financial Analyst and brings his background as a former bond trader, trading billions of dollars. He brings that same intensity to analyzing the best repayment paths for graduate degree professionals with six figures of student debt. Student Loan Planner has helped over 2,000 clients save over $100 million dollars on their student loans. Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com (http://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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
49min | Published on August 23, 2019


Megan Gerber, MD, MPH is a general internist with a career-long focus on the medical care of trauma-exposed women. We start out defining trauma and then get introduced to trauma-informed care. Interfacing with the medical system and physicians can be traumatizing and triggering, so we discussed ways to minimize that, and why it actually isn’t important to identify who needs trauma informed care. We should be taking a “universal precautions” like approach. She teaches us how to incorporate a routine of respectful care and how we can get the staff involved. The approach to patients needs to change from questions like “what’s wrong with you?” to “what happened to you?” but this needs to happen within the confines of our time limited schedules, so Dr. Gerber teaches out how to be effective while still respecting the time of those in the waiting room. She is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University and Medical Director of Women’s Health at VA Boston. She holds an adjunct appointment as Lecturer on Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her work focuses on optimizing medical outcomes for women who have experienced trauma as well as adapting systems of care to be “trauma-informed” and sensitive to the needs of survivors. She has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications on intimate partner violence and is the editor of the recently released Springer book, “Trauma-informed Healthcare Approaches: A Guide for Primary Care (https://www.amazon.com/Trauma-Informed-Healthcare-Approaches-Guide-Primary/dp/303004341X).” After a brief hiatus, she is now back and very active on Twitter at @meggerber https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/profile/megan-gerber/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Megan_Gerber Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com (http://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. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
44min | Published on August 14, 2019