Physicians Helping Physicians

Prior to transitioning to nonclinical work, Mandy Armitage, MD practiced musculoskeletal medicine as a PM&R physician trained in sports medicine. She moved into her career as a freelance medical writer by exploring her interest and skills in medical writing and realizing this was the best career for her. Hear about her career transition, how she did it and what she does as a medical writer.

Jill Wener, MD is an internist who practiced medicine for 10+ years before taking a nontraditional route to become a Conscious Health (also known as Vedic) Meditation instructor and tapping practitioner. Hear more about why she was initially skeptical of spiritual practices and her journey into a nontraditional career. She offers a service as a well as an inspirational story of career success for doctors who are looking to heal from stress and burnout.

Carl Gold, MD is an anesthesiologist who went through a rough patch in his life before finding and getting into his nonclinical career. Hear his story and learn about copywriting in this podcast. This is a career you can do as a physician without a license or board certification. Learn more about copywriting and some resources to get started.

Katie Herzog, MD is a PM&R and pain medicine physician who started doing disability reviews about 6 years ago. She learned there is a process to it to make it easier and more efficient so she's created a 12 module online course (with her partner, John Levesque) to help other physicians enter the field, be more efficient with their reviews and even find more of this work. Hear her story of how she does the work and why she created the course.

Armin Feldman, MD is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who started consulting with attorneys on cases after he sold his patient rehab clinics. He acts as a medical consultant primarily now and has made it his primary work - along with teaching other doctors how to do it. This is not expert witness work. He runs a yearly conference for doctors who want to learn everything there is to starting their own business as a medical consultant to attorneys.

Japa Volchok, DO is a surgeon who serves as Vice President of Operations for Vohra Wound Physicians. His story is one of triumph and resilience and will inspire you. He talks about wound care as an option for physicians interested in a nontraditional career and provides hope to those who may be in a dark place.

Ted Bain, MD is a Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine physician who was ready for his second career after 19 years of practice. Austin Folley, MD is also an Emergency Medicine physician who was ready for a career transition after 4 years of practice. Both physicians found success at Biodynamic Research Corporation (BRC). Hear their stories and how they focus on biomechanical analysis in a nonclinical career.

Robyn Tiger, MD, is a radiologist who was interested in Yoga. She turned that interest and passion into an amazing business and is now known as the StressFreeMD. Her program Rx Inner Peace, is a CME approved physician self-care program and she has partnerships with Universities to offer the program to their physicians.

Nerissa Kreher, MD is a pediatric endocrinologist who transitioned to the pharmaceutical industry early in her career. She started her career in Medical Affairs and then moved to Clinical Development. Over the past 15 years, she has worked in a variety of roles at a variety of biotech companies. Along the way she started IndustryMDCoach to provide coaching and assistance for physicians interested in transitioning to industry.

Thom Miller, MD is part of a dual physician family. He's an Internist by training and talks about his nontraditional career doing locums, running CME programs on cruise ships and mentoring residents.

Rich Berning, MD is a pediatric cardiologist who tried a few different careers (IT, entrepreneurship) before finding and getting into utilization review. He works for a large insurance company (you would recognize the name) and has over 5 years of experience now. He talks about a "day-in-the-life" of what the job is like so you can better understand if this might be YOUR next career.

Dara Lifschutz, MD is a breast radiologist...and actress! She talks about how she finds side gigs and schedules her "day job" so she can do more acting and less doctoring.

Jennifer Tang, MD is a Internist who did additional training in acupunture...and then decided to pursue sales through a skin care opportunity. She talks about MLM companies and why people sometimes think negatively of them. She's had a lot of professional success with it and feels she has grown personally and professionally.

Andrew Wilner, MD, FACP, FAAN is an Associate Professor of Neurology atUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN. He's recently written a book called The Locum Life, a Physicians Guide to Locum Tenens. It's full of good information for anyone interested in locums. You can find the book at Amazon or learn more here: https://www.andrewwilner.com/.

John Jurica is a successful board certified Family Physician who also served as Vice President for Medical Affairs and then Chief Medical Officer at Riverside Medical Center in Kankakee, Illinois. He is a co-moderator for the Physician Non-Clinical Career Hunters Facebook Group and has his own podcast. You can listen to over 70 episodes (as of this recording - may be more now!) about non-clinical and non-traditional careers for doctors here: https://vitalpe.net/pnc-podcast/ .

Jay Dave, MD describes his career transition and how he advises doctors who haven't done a residency. He's worked with EPIC and is currently a medical science liaison (MSL).

Eliza@minimalmd is a physician who talks about her life and career, and how she transitioned to a minimal lifestyle. You can visit her website at: https://minimalmd.com/.