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Rudrani Banik, MD, IFMCP, joins Integrative Practitioner Content Specialist Avery St. Onge to discuss the most common age-related eye conditions and how they can be prevented with specific nutrients that target the various structure of the eye. This episode is brought to you by the Integrative Healthcare Symposium. Register for the Symposium and receive 15% off with promo code IP2025PODCAST: https://xpressreg.net/register/ihsy0225/landing.php?sc=IP2025PODCAST Learn more about the event by visiting the Symposium website: www.ihsymposium.com Contact the Integrative Healthcare Symposium team: info@ihsymposium.com Find us at integrativepractitioner.com or e-mail us at IPEditor@divcom.com. Theme music: "Upbeat Party" by Scott Holmes via freemusicarchive.org, "Carefree" by Kevin Mcleod via incompetech.com, and “Relaxing Light Background” by AudioCoffee. About the Expert Rudrani Banik, MD, IFMCP, is a board-certified ophthalmologist and fellowship-trained neuro-ophthalmologist with additional training in Functional Medicine. She completed her BA/MD as part of the prestigious combined eight-year Program in Liberal Medical Education at Brown University in Rhode Island. Dr. Banik then did her internship at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, followed by Ophthalmology Residency at University of California, Irvine. She then completed a Neuro-Ophthalmology Fellowship under Dr. Neil Miller at Wilmer Eye Institute/Johns Hopkins. She maintains an academic appointment at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai as Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, where she actively teaches and supervises residents, fellows, and medical students. She also serves as Principal Investigator for the clinical trials in Neuro-Ophthalmology. She has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles and has been a speaker at both national and international meetings. Dr. Banik is a fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (NANOS). She also serves on the American Board of Ophthalmology's Exam Development Committee, a role she enjoys through which she helps maintain the standards of board certification in ophthalmology.
Deena Levine Davidovics, MD grew up in Miami Beach Florida where she attended the RASG Hebrew Academy. After high school she spent a year in Israel studying at Michlelet Mevaseret Yerushalayim and then attended a 6 year BA/MD program at Lehigh University and Drexel University College of Medicine. Deena went on to Pediatric Residency Training at UMDNJ, and completed fellowships in pediatric hematology oncology at Johns Hopkins, Bioethics at the NIH, and Hospice and Palliative medicine at UTHSC. She moved to Memphis with her family in 2012 to join the faculty at St Jude Children's Research Hospital as a pediatric palliative oncologist and ethicist. She practices clinical medicine and research and is currently the director of the division of Quality of Life and Palliative Care in the Department of Oncology at St Jude. Deena has also been active in community service, education, mentorship, and leadership. Deena lives in Memphis with her husband Noam, and 5 children, Moshe, Ezra, Rafi, Maytal, and Eli. _________________________________________________ This week's episode is sponsored by Toveedo! The Jewish videos your kids love, all in one happy place. Visit www.toveedo.com and use code JOWMA10 for $10 off! __________________________________________________ Sponsor the JOWMA Podcast! Email digitalcontent@jowma.org Become a JOWMA Member! www.jowma.org Follow us on Instagram! www.instagram.com/JOWMA_org Follow us on Twitter! www.twitter.com/JOWMA_med Follow us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/JOWMAor Stay up-to-date with JOWMA news! Sign up for the JOWMA newsletter! https://jowma.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9b4e9beb287874f9dc7f80289&id=ea3ef44644&mc_cid=dfb442d2a7&mc_eid=e9eee6e41e
Dr. Elena Frid is a Neurologist and Clinical Neurophysiologist specializing in Infection Induced Autoimmune Disorders. With clinical interests in Autoimmune Neurology, she sees patients with complex cases of Lyme disease + co-infections, PANS/PANDAS, and Autoimmune conditions resulting in various neurological complaints. Using cutting-edge diagnostic tools and clinical expertise, she differentiates between idiopathic and organic causes of various neurological disorders. Her knowledge has been sought by patients from all over the United States, as well as Canada and Europe. Dr. Frid attended a coveted BA/MD program at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) and went on to North Shore-LIJ Health Care Systems (currently Northwell) where she completed a residency in Neurology and a fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology.
“The New Professionalism says, you take care of yourself, you take care of each other, you take care of your patients.” - Renee Crichlow, MD, FAAFPSTFM President Renee Crichlow, MD, FAAFP, expands on the stirring ideas she laid out in her 2023 President's Address. With characteristic clarity, she helps us understand the opportunities of the New Professionalism emerging from current generational paradigm shifts. She shares her experience of the New Professionalism as both a practitioner and an educator, and demonstrates the ways that seasoned practitioners can influence the next generation of family medicine docs. Dr Crichlow reminds us that family medicine practitioners are uniquely positioned to build the future of the healthcare system globally and at the bedside.Hosted by Saria Saccocio, MD, MHA, FAAFPCopyright © Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, 2024Resources:Renee Crichlow, MD, FAAFP: STFM President's AddressThe Ladder for AmericaThe URMJAM Podcast Episode 3: Building Your Academic Portfolio and CV with Renee Crichlow, MD, FAAFPThe STFM Podcast - September 2021: Finding a Leadership Mentor with Dr Renee CrichlowSTFM Blog - Get to Know Incoming STFM President Renee Crichlow, MD, FAAFPGuest Bio:Dr. Renee Crichlow has been a full spectrum family physician with OB for over twenty years. She has lived and worked in both rural and urban underserved communities. She was the Inaugural holder of the Mac Baird Endowed Chair for Advocacy and Policy at the University of Minnesota and in February 2021 began a new position as Boston University Vice-Chair of Health Equity for the Department of Family Medicine and Chief Medical Officer at Codman Square Community Health Center.Dr. Crichlow's first faculty position was an attending physician at UCDavis, with a joint appointment in the Department of Family Medicine and OB/GYN. From 2003 she was faculty for the University of Washington at the Montana Family Medicine Residency. Then, Dr. Crichlow served as an assistant professor and Director of Advocacy and Policy at the University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine, with her clinic and hospital work in the urban, low wealth community of North Minneapolis at the UMN North Memorial Family Medicine Residency.Dr. Crichlow has been a long time participant in pipeline development programsincluding founding physician for the Eastern Montana AHEC in the early 2000s, in North Minneapolis Dr. Crichlow developed The Ladder,(theladderforamerica.org) a cascading mentorship program that encourages youths from low-income communities to pursue medical careers, and as co-director of UMN undergraduate BA/MD seven-year program at UMN.Link:www.stfm.org/stfmpodcast012024
Meet Sahana Shiggaon, a medical student graduating from the University of Missouri Kansas City- School of Medicine's 6 YR combined BA/MD program. She talks about the unique challenges of being in an accelerated program and how she found her "groove". Sahana talks about suffering from imposter syndrome and overcoming it. She talks about feeling alone and isolated as one of the few students who was out fo state and learning to start from scratch as far as building her social circle. Medical schools need to provide opportunities to socialize and speak to other students so one can open up, not feel isolated and learn to work together in a collaborative environment. She believes that being at a school where her concerns were addressed and "listened to" really helped in feeling welcome and helped her succeed. Her pearls for us: Being vulnerable is normal Don't sweat the small stuff Celebrate yourself and your accomplishments even if they feel small. Validate yourself! Build your confidence and believe in yourselves. We are all capable since we have landed in these places. Invest in yourself and try to find other things that give you joy. Take up a hobby early on.
Listen to ASCO's Journal of Clinical Oncology essay, "People Like Us," by Dr. Stephanie Graff. The essay is followed by an interview with Graff and host Dr. Lidia Schapira. Graff reflects on her life experience as a female physician, farmer's daughter, mother, and pie connoisseur to connect and help her patients get through a life-altering diagnosis. TRANSCRIPT Narrator: People Like Us, by Stephanie Graff, MD (10.1200/JCO.22.01835) I was standing in the dining room on the 15-year-old burnt sienna carpet, so heinous that it could have only been chosen because it was on sale. I remember the afternoon light from the western windows falling across the oak dining table which matched my mother's brusque, wooden tone. She remembers nothing. She does not remember saying the words that I have so often replayed, pondered. I was stung by the interaction in a way that rendered me speechless, in a way I now recognize too often in my approach to conflict in adulthood: silence assumed to represent understanding, consent, or complicity. Weeks earlier, this same woman drove all over our small town hoping to catch the mailman before driving to my track and field meet 30 miles away. I was waiting for word from the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Medicine, and I think my mom was as anxious to hear as I was. Conveniently, her brother (my uncle) was our mailman. When she arrived at the track meet, she handed me the large envelope proudly bearing the school's logo in the return address. I tore it open sitting with my boyfriend on the bleachers, seeing my prayers answered in black and white before my eyes. There is a photograph of this moment, so I can describe perfectly what I am wearing: my royal blue and white track uniform, my sprinters spikes and—I am sorry to tell you—a neon green hair scrunchy. This photograph also proves, in that instant, my mother understood that what was unfolding was a milestone moment in my life. I remember asking her later when I discovered she tracked the mailman around town to get the mail what she would have done if I had not been accepted. She replied that she knew I had gotten in from the size of the envelope, so she never had to think about it. I like to imagine my mom also had faith in me that led to the wild goose chase for the mailman, even before she saw the envelope. Within the envelope, in addition to the acceptance letter and glossy brochure telling me all about my wonderful new life as a UMKC medical student, was a parental consent form. The 6-year combined BA/MD program at UMKC was far from inexpensive, and, as a minor, I would need my parents to sign this letter stating that they agreed that we would pay the tuition. Of course, by we what was really meant was I would be taking out student loans to cover every single cent of tuition, room, and board. But the letter, with a DUE BY date ticking ever closer, had been sitting on our dining room table since the day the acceptance arrived, unsigned. My father signed things like this. Never my mother. My mother would not even broach the subject with him. Nice families in rural Missouri just do not talk about money or politics. So, there it sat, a white paper elephant in the room. “Mom, when is dad going to sign my acceptance letter? The deadline is soon, and we still have to mail it back,” I pleaded with her that afternoon. She turned to look at me, en route from the dining room to the kitchen and said, “Stephanie, people like us don't go to medical school.” People like us? Who is this us? Women? Mid-Missouri farmers? People from small towns? Our family specifically? Poor people? I may forever regret not asking. I may forever regret that moment of stunned silence where I only wondered if she had just said no to my dream and considered my next move very carefully so as to not make it worse or potentially close a door forever. By the time I asked her, years later, what she meant in that moment, my mother had no memory of saying it to me. This innocuous phrase, “people like us” that haunted me for most of medical school. Eventually, of course, my father signed it. Only a day or two before the deadline as my memory recalls. He sat me down and told me it was a lot of money and asked me if I was serious about this whole doctor thing. I assured him that the one and only thing I had ever wanted to be had not changed in 10 years, after a short-lived dream of being a country western singer and that it was unlikely to change now. Then, he had signed the consent, which I had taken immediately to the post office before anyone could change their mind. Yet, those words kept bubbling up. When I struggled with a test or subject, I wondered if people like us always had a hard time with organic chemistry or neuroanatomy. When my classmates talked about their exotic travels to tropical getaways or international hotspots, I sheepishly admitted people like us do not travel much. When patients assumed the female medical student was a nursing student rather than a medical student, I assumed that was just what happens to people like us. When I mispronounced something or exposed my total ignorance into the broader process of step examinations, residency, the road to physicianhood, I figured it was just the sort of thing people like us cannot help. Then one day, a patient newly diagnosed with melanoma shared with me that he was worried about how treatment would interfere with farming. “Well, what kind of farming are we talking about?” I probed. He raised cattle, had some corn and hay fields. “Oh really? What breed? How many head?” We fell into the easy talk of farm life, and he shared his current toils of repairing his tractor. When he left, his wife pulled me aside and confided, “It really is nice to know that his doctor is one of them.” When I start to write a prescription, I often stop to think about the cost, about how $20 US dollars is a big deal to people like us, and I talk to patients about what is financially possible, what help they need, what resources we have. One of my breast cancer survivors always framed her chronic lymphedema symptoms in terms of how much or how little it held her back from baking pies. We shared recipes of her grand champion state fair pies and my mom's own grand champion pecan pie. I could understand the flurry of activity and pressure to bring your freshest, most beautiful pies to the fair because I shared that lived experience. Patients like this, one by one, started me thinking that maybe more people like us should be in medical school. I know the statistics for my own field of medical oncology, and few oncologists practice in rural areas, despite the community needs. I have no statistics for how many of my colleagues grew up farming or preparing for state fairs every summer. But, I have answered phone calls from my mom, asking advice about what aspects of farming are safe when you are neutropenic or how best to plan Moh's surgery around harvest. People like us are necessary to fill those gaps. As a woman in medicine, numerous women have reached out to me to ask me questions about the duality of medicine and mothering or the intersection of work and sex. My emails, text messages, and social media feeds are filled with threads on breastfeeding at work, daycare solutions, unique challenges in leadership for women, and advice on career growth. These conversations ring with the chorus of someone like me as we connect over similarities. My mom recognizes this version of like me as well, handing out my phone number to women in the intervening years from my hometown applying to my alma mater or medicine in general. If community and connection with other women improves career experience for women in oncology, I am glad there are people like us. And as much as I see a need in medicine for people like me, I also see all the ways I represent privilege—which of course means that there is ample space in medicine for people not like me. If the numbers of rural or female oncologists are low, the numbers of Hispanic/Latino, Black/ African American oncologists are startling. How can we collectively provide culturally and linguistically competent care if our workforce does not share the same diversity as our patients? So, mom, 25 years later, I think we have both grown to understand medical schools need people like us, people like all of us. I think you have felt that as much as I have over the years in your own connections with doctors caring for members of our family or in the health questions you save for me. When I sit with a patient as their doctor, I am also there as a woman, farmer's daughter, mother, writer, baker of pies, and so much more. Each time one of these versions of me creates connection with a patient or colleague, my care improves. Each of our unique gifts and experiences help us connect with our patients in ways both big and small. Medicine needs people like us. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Hello, and welcome to JCO's Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology, brought to you by ASCO Podcasts, which covers a range of educational and scientific content, and offers enriching insight into the world of cancer care. You can find all ASCO shows, including this one at: podcasts.asco.org. I'm your host, Lidia Schapira, Associate Editor for Art of Oncology, and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. Today, we are joined by Dr. Stephanie Graff, Director of Breast Oncology at Lifespan Cancer Institute, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Legorreta Cancer Center, at Brown University. In this episode, we will be discussing her Art of Oncology article, 'People Like Us.' Our guest's disclosures will be linked in the transcript. Stephanie, welcome to our podcast and thank you for joining us. Dr. Stephanie Graff: Thanks so much for having me. Dr. Lidia Schapira: It is our pleasure. So, I like to start the show by asking our authors what they are currently reading and would recommend to listeners. Dr. Stephanie Graff: I am currently reading The Power Broker, which is kind of a funny book to be reading. It's obviously an older book, and it's the story of Robert Moses who famously, or infamously, perhaps, built New York City, and sort of wrote the power structure of city government or state government and politics in New York, and it's written by Caro and is a Pulitzer Prize winner, and I just have never read it. It's quite the tome, so it's hard to power through, but it's excellently well-written, and really insightful into political culture and the history of New York. So, I'm finally working my way through it. I'm not sure that I would recommend it for the average reader. I just finished The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich, and, Unlikely Animals, by Hartnett, and both were delightful reads. Dr. Lidia Schapira: You are a gifted storyteller. I wonder if you could tell our listeners and share with us a little bit about your process and when you write, how you write, and what inspires you to write. Dr. Stephanie Graff: When I write and how I write, I think the answer is, all the time. You and I may have talked about this before. I feel like writing is often how I decompress, and I find that I'm often writing in my head all the time. So, when I'm walking my dog, when I'm driving my car, when I have downtime, I'm sometimes turning over ideas or events and looking for the thread or the storyline there. I write poetry, actually mostly for myself as my form of journaling, or meditation, or rage, or sadness, whatever it is I might be feeling. And sometimes that then turns into something narrative, and that's a habit that I've had for a very long time, even as early as middle school and high school, it was a habit that I've always had. In terms of then turning that into something narrative or publishable, I think that that's more of an ‘aha' moment where an idea that I've been turning over for a while finally feels like there's a unifying theme, or thread, or a particular patient encounter, or a funny thing that one of my children said inspires it to become this sort of 360 moment that makes it feel more like thematic story that can be told. Dr. Lidia Schapira: So, given your expertise with stories, and your appreciation of literature, and the fact that you've now lived in the world of Oncology for quite a while, what is your opinion of the role of stories and narratives in our culture and our approach to training others, and sort of sustaining that sense of vocation I think that drove us all to choose a specialty in the first place. Dr. Stephanie Graff: Yeah. I think that story is so important for how we relate to one another, and how we relate to our patients because I think that, you know, if we're just talking to patients about a phase III randomized clinical trial and throwing at a patient a bunch of statistics, or metrics, or guidelines, it's not digestible, or understandable, or relatable. And so, being able to talk about what we do at the story is what makes that understandable, memorable, digestible for patients, but also for our colleagues, and our students, and residents, and fellows, staff, everyone that we interact with in our day-to-day experience. And so, I think that really thinking about The Art of Oncology, the practice of what we do day-to-day as parables, and stories, and looking for ways to turn that science, that data into little anecdotes is really so central to understanding. Dr. Lidia Schapira: Let's talk about the story that you so beautifully wrote, ‘People Like Us'. Thank you for sharing that and sending it out to the world. I assume this is something that you've been thinking about for decades, and I, since you don't look like a teenager waiting for mom and dad's approval to go to med school. You know a good story, Stephanie, I'm sure you agree, allows the reader to project into, and imagine things. And there were two big themes for me, and one of them had to do with the mother-daughter relationship. So, can you talk a little bit and share with us a little bit about that aspect of the story of the words that your mother said at a very tender age that sort of stuck with you and kept on giving? Dr. Stephanie Graff: So, for those listening, the story is that my mom said to me after I had been accepted to medical school and was kind of waiting for my parents to sign the acceptance letter, I went to the University of Missouri, Kansas City six-year program, so I got accepted to medical school, straight out of high school. And because I was 17, they had to sign this parental consent in order for me to actually start. And so, this letter was like sitting like the elephant in the room on my dining room table for, I don't know, two weeks or something, waiting for them to sign it. And my mom one day, in a moment, that to her was, I mean, she doesn't remember it. So, like to her clearly, it was like this nothing-passing comment, like, you know, "Pick up your shoes." She said “People like us don't go to medical school.” And at the time, I was so struck by it, but I have no idea who this "us" was that she was referencing. And I have spent decades wondering, in retrospect, "Oh, why didn't I ask questions?" You know, my mom actually was this amazing hero to me in my childhood. You know, she was a Girl Scout leader, and I got my Girl Scout Gold Award, she created all these opportunities for leadership and engagement in my community. She taught Sunday school. She graduated high school but just has a high school degree. She never went to college herself, because she was actually told by her parents that girls don't go to college, that girls get married and stay home. And so, though she wanted to go to college, her parents closed that door for her, and so she worked a factory job to earn extra money to help support the things that my siblings and I all wanted to do that, you know, kids' activities get pricey. Eventually, the factory job was physically demanding on her as she aged, and she ended up applying to become a paraprofessional in the schools, and so spent the second half of my childhood working as a para in our schools, which actually also ended up being a very physically demanding job. But really all kind of just out of determination and passion to create opportunities for us as children. So, in no way is this story meant to be a shot at my mom. She's been a really, really great mom. And again, she has no memory of saying this thing to me that has stuck with me so harshly, perhaps over the last several decades. But she said it, and at the time I was kind of like, "What does she mean by this?" I mean, obviously, I already had a lot of doubt about whether or not medical school was going to be right for me or if I was gonna fit in there, and for her to say that, I was kind of like, "Oh gosh, maybe people like me don't go to medical school." And then as I entered medical school, medical school was hard. It was hard as an 18-year-old. I struggled in classes, there were lots of moments where my peers were just more worldly than me. They had traveled, they came from backgrounds where most of their parents-- I had so many classmates whose parents were both physicians, and so they didn't struggle with the language of Medicine, the career paths of Medicine in the same way that I did. You know, my mom's words just kept coming back - people like us don't go to medical school. It was something that just sort of kept coming up over my career. Dr. Lidia Schapira: So, who are those "People Like Us"? Have you figured it out? I certainly enjoyed reading all of the possible spins of People Like Us - people who come from farm backgrounds, people who aren't rich and worldly, perhaps women. Who are these "People Like Us?" Dr. Stephanie Graff: Well, at the end of the day, I think all of us are People Like Us because you know, if anything I've learned in my last 20 years of this, is that everybody has those feelings of self-doubt, and feelings like, "we don't fit in." And hopefully, those are coupled with moments of feeling like you do belong, and hopefully, everybody has a network of belonging. But we're all periodically thrust into times where we don't feel like we fit in, and we don't feel like we belong. And there's so much that can be drawn from those moments. So, whether it's that you are from an underrepresented group, from your ethnic or cultural background, your socioeconomic background, your gender, your sexual identity, you know, no matter what that is, your parents' occupation, if you're the first person in your family to go to college, you are going to bring the tapestry to Medicine that helps us kind of richly relate to our patients in a way that's so cool. One of my favorite studies that I've seen in the scientific literature is actually not an Oncology study, it's a Cardiology study that looked at patients presenting to emergency departments with heart attacks, and it was a gender inclusion study. And what it looked at is in patients that have heart attacks in the emergency department, if the cardiologist caring for the patient is matched gender, like a man caring for a male heart attack patient, they have a better outcome. But if that cardiologist has a partner that is of the same gender, so like if the male cardiologist has female partners, their care of female heart attack patients improves, and that patient's cardiac mortality improves, which was so fascinating that like just having a greater exposure to female cardiologists helped male cardiologists provide better care to female patients. So, I do think that just gathering experiences of the people not like me, that surround me all day, help me relate better to my patients. There's certainly so many cultural celebrations, travel experiences, world celebrations, that I better understand through my classmates, peers, colleagues, friends, that I have encountered in Medicine, that help me connect and relate to my patients in ways that I previously didn't have access to. And there's ways that I'm sure me as a Midwestern farmer's daughter have helped my colleagues understand some of the things that our patients cope with. Dr. Lidia Schapira: You make a brilliant case for diversity, and of course, for inclusion, which is something that everybody is really keenly trying to think more deeply about these days. And that brings me to another question or follow-up, and that is the role of empathy in communicating with people who are not like you. One of the most beautiful parts of your essay, I thought, was when you take us into the exam room with a patient, and you're actually giving us some examples of how your lived experiences as a farmer's daughter allowed you to connect with people who work the land, or who depend on the land or women who bake pies. Tell us a little bit about that - the role of the connection with a patient, and empathy, and compassion in helping us create a more welcoming environment, both for our colleagues and for our patients. Dr. Stephanie Graff: I think everybody has had that experience before where a patient asks us, as their Oncologist, if while they're undergoing chemotherapy, undergoing radiation, if they're still going to be able to like [insert their passion here]. You know, as I reflect over my lifetime of patients, I've had patients who are professional poker players. I had a professional accordion player. I've had figure skaters. I've had everything, right? And I don't know the first thing about professional poker, okay, I would be a terrible professional poker player. But I could imagine what skills are needed to be a professional poker player and answer that question. But every once in a while, a patient asks me if they're still going to be able to do X, and whatever they fill in that blank is something that so deeply relates to my childhood experiences, that it becomes this bonding moment with my patient. So, some of the ones that I shared in the essay is a patient who spent every summer baking pies for the State Fair. For those of you who don't know, at the State Fair, you can enter your pies, cookies, baked goods, canned goods, decorated cakes, pretty much anything you can imagine, breads, and they're judged, and the winner gets ribbons - red, white and blue, and grand champion, and reserve grand champion that come with cash prizes, it's bragging rights. If you happen to also own like a bakery, or decorate wedding cakes, for example, that's something that's then marketing material, advertising material for your company that you're the Missouri Grand Champion of wedding cake decorating for 2022, or whatever it might be. So, this is a big deal, and people in my community talked about it and joked about it. And you would, at the church picnic when you're picking which pie, you know whose pie was the grand champion pie. So, she told me going into her chemotherapy, that it was really important to her that she could do the pies. We laughed, because my mom is the grand champion pecan pie baker for our county, and my mom makes a, pardon me, damn good pecan pie, I would say. So, that patient and I spent a lot of time talking about how her pie baking was going. And I will say that the summer that she was on chemotherapy, she said that it was really fatiguing and hard for her. And so, that next year when it came time to pie season, she was really excited to tell me that like she entered two more pies than she had the prior year because she had that extra energy to like get up on the morning of the fair, and bake the extra pies, and spending all the extra time on making the crust beautiful. And I know what that's like because I've seen my mom get up at four o'clock in the morning to make a beautiful, perfect pie, and have it ready to enter at 8:00 AM when the fairgrounds open. That's so unique to perhaps rural Missouri, or the Midwest, or fair culture, and I guess probably not a lot of Medical Oncologists know what that's like. I had another patient who was, when I was still early in my career and was caring for things other than just breast cancer, who had a melanoma, and his wife asked me a lot of questions about how it was going to impact his farming. And we had this really lovely conversation about what kind of farming, and how many acres he had, and how many head of cattle, and what crops, and they were shocked at the depth of my knowledge about farming, and my ability to answer their questions in detail about what would be safe, and what would not be safe. And when they found out that it's because that's what I was raised doing, and that's what I did when I went home on weekends to visit my family, it was help out on the farm and do many of the same things that we were talking about. They saw me in this completely different light. Then they had seen me as this high-heeled wearing, white coat dawning Medical Oncologist, and it, I think helped them feel so much more comfortable in their cancer treatment, knowing that I understood where they were coming from. Dr. Lidia Schapira: I have to ask you this question. Have you shared the essay with your mom? Dr. Stephanie Graff: I have not shared it with her yet. I will when it comes out in print. Dr. Lidia Schapira: What do you think her reaction will be? Dr. Stephanie Graff: I think that she'll think it's lovely. We've had this conversation about how annoyed I am that she doesn't remember saying it, and how -- I guess it's weird because, you know, she said it and at times in my life I would say that it was hurtful that she said that people like us don't go to medical school, and that probably is the right language at different time points. I don't know that today I would describe it as a hurtful comment because I know what it was. It was just words that came out of her mouth whilst she was busy doing 100 other things, right? She doesn't remember it for a reason, which is that it wasn't a big commentary on me, or my life, or my choices. It was just words coming out of her mouth as she was going from one thing to another. So, I don't think that she'll find any hurt, or ill will in it at all. Dr. Lidia Schapira: She may respond with a comment about what it's going to be like for you when you're in that situation with perhaps your children, and perhaps, at that point, make a comment that to you, may be forgettable, but makes a deep impression and a lasting impression in their young minds. Dr. Stephanie Graff: That's actually something that I've spent a lot of time thinking about, both as I reflect on the comment, and, you know, at the very beginning of this, we talked about when I'm writing, and I said, always. I think about that comment a lot in the context of so much that I do - in my own parenting with my children, things that I say to them, and how those words might impact them. Things my husband says to them, and how those comments might affect them. But also, in the larger work of DEI, and how "jokes", or jabs, or sarcasm, things that aren't necessarily meant as true, can cut wrong. And that's why we have to be thoughtful, and careful because you never know who is listening, and how words are going to hit somebody on any given day. Dr. Lidia Schapira: On that beautiful note, I want to thank you for sending us your work. Please continue to write, and I look forward to reading future stories, maybe even a poem, sometime. Until next time, thank you for listening to JCO's Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology. Don't forget to give us a rating, or review wherever you listen. Be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. JCO's Cancer Stories: The Art of Oncology, is just one of ASCO's many podcasts. You can find all of the shows at: podcasts.asco.org. The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. Guest statements on the podcast do not express the opinions of ASCO. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy, should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement. Show Notes: Like, share and subscribe so you never miss an episode and leave a rating or review. Bio: Dr. Stephanie Graff is the Director of Breast Oncology at Lifespan Cancer Institute, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Legorreta Cancer Center, at Brown University.
Brian Cohen, MD, is a practicing anesthesiologist and entrepreneur in the digital health space. In 2015, he co-founded Miami Anesthesia Services, a concierge anesthesia company throughout South Florida. Dr. Cohen acts as Administrative Chief of Miami Anesthesia Services and Chief of their Management Service Organization that supports other independent anesthesia practices throughout Florida. Dr. Cohen is the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Adaptrack, a medical risk focused digital platform for clinicians. He is also the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of CMEfy, a platform that acts as an engagement and reward tool for clinicians co-learning with each other and within organizations. Additionally, Dr. Cohen is the Specialty Medical Director for the Preferred Anesthesia and Pain Management Program of AMS-RRG, an AM Best, A-rated medical liability company. This was a wide-ranging conversation starting with his concierge anesthesia practice, why he started an MSO if he has no intention of selling said MSO, and then we move onto the digital space and discuss Adaptrack, which creates CME accredited content for physicians that is specialty specific based on trends in litigation to help us manage risk. We end on how you all are going to start getting CME credits for listening to this podcast and reflecting on what you learn via CMEfy. Dr. Cohen completed his BA/MD at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and his residency in anesthesia at Washington University in St. Louis. Most importantly, Dr. Cohen is married to his college sweetheart, also a practicing physician, and the father of their two amazing daughters.
Brian Cohen, MD, is a practicing anesthesiologist and entrepreneur in the digital health space. In 2015, he co-founded Miami Anesthesia Services, a concierge anesthesia company throughout South Florida. Dr. Cohen acts as Administrative Chief of Miami Anesthesia Services and Chief of their Management Service Organization that supports other independent anesthesia practices throughout Florida. Dr. Cohen is the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Adaptrack, a medical risk focused digital platform for clinicians. He is also the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of CMEfy, a platform that acts as an engagement and reward tool for clinicians co-learning with each other and within organizations. Additionally, Dr. Cohen is the Specialty Medical Director for the Preferred Anesthesia and Pain Management Program of AMS-RRG, an AM Best, A- rated medical liability company. Dr. Cohen is originally from St. Louis, Missouri and has lived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida since 2008. He completed his BA/MD at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and his residency in anesthesia at Washington University in St. Louis. Most importantly, Dr. Cohen is married to his college sweetheart, also a practicing physician, and the father of their two amazing daughters. Unlock Bonus content and get the shows early on our Patreon Follow us or Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Amazon | Spotify --- Show notes at https://rxforsuccesspodcast.com/103 Report-out with comments or feedback at https://rxforsuccesspodcast.com/report Music by Ryan Jones. Find Ryan on Instagram at _ryjones_, Contact Ryan at ryjonesofficial@gmail.com
The majority of our adult hours are spent in the workplace. What is one of the biggest contributors to unhappiness and dissatisfaction at work? Coworkers! The main reason employees leave a job is the degree of jerkiness of their supervisor. What's more, coworkers might have a touch of narcissism, or emotional volatility or anger or dishonesty. Any of these lead to a more stressful and conflict-laden workplace. How do you spot these jerk-holes and how can you best deal with them? Topics covered: How do I deal with an angry or deceitful or attention-grabbing coworker? What are some of the behaviors at work that lead to conflict, difficulty or disruption? To what extent are people even aware of their problematic behaviors? You break people down into personality types to help readers make sense of the jerks at work. What are a few of the problematic personalities at work? What tells or clues should we look for to spot them early? And what are some of the best tools or ideas to deal with these personality types? Dr. John's Distinguished Guest: Jody J. Foster, MD, MBA is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Assistant Dean for Professionalism in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Pennsylvania Hospital and Chair of the Penn Medicine Academy of Master Clinicians. After receiving her medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in a combined and accelerated BA/MD program with Lehigh University, Dr. Foster completed both a residency and a chief residency in psychiatry and a fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology and mood disorders at The Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital. She also attained her masters of business administration, with a concentration in finance, from the Wharton School. Dr. Foster serves as the Executive Clinical Director of the Professionalism Program at Penn Medicine and leads the Professionalism Committees at the member hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. She also serves as Senior Advisor to the Wharton Executive MBA Program. Dr. Foster is a noted educator and has received numerous awards for clinical excellence and teaching. She has been named a “Top Doc” by Philadelphia Magazine and in her Professionalism role has consulted not only within healthcare but also with legal and venture capital firms, corporate entities, education, the arts and major league sports. She is author of the excellent book, The Schmuck In My Office: How To Deal Effectively With Difficult People At Work. If you like what you've heard at The Evolved Caveman podcast, support us by subscribing, leaving reviews on Apple podcasts. Every review helps to get the message out! Please share the podcast with friends and colleagues.Follow Dr. John Schinnerer on| Instagram | Instagram.com/@TheEvolvedCaveman| Facebook | Facebook.com/Anger.Management.Expert| Twitter | Twitter.com/@JohnSchin| LinkedIn | Linkedin.com/in/DrJohnSchinnererOr join the email list by visiting: GuideToSelf.comPlease visit our YouTube channel and remember to Like & Subscribe!https://www.youtube.com/user/jschinnererEditing/Mixing/Mastering by: Brian Donat of B/Line Studios www.BLineStudios.com
What do you do when your high school aptitude test suggests a career as a short-order cook or airplane pilot? You go on to earn your medical degree from the University of Missouri‐Kansas City 6 year BA/MD program, complete your radiology residency at St. Francis Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh, and finish fellowships in Diagnostic Radiology and then Interventional Neuroradiology at Stanford University. From there you join the faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Brigham and Women's Hospital, and become Chair and Professor of Radiology at Boston University School of Medicine before taking on your current role as Chair and Professor of Radiology at the University of California, San Diego, (UCSD) in the School of Medicine.
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In this podcast episode, we interview Dr. Brook Choulet, MD of Choulet Wellness. Dr. Choulet has achieved financial freedom through multiple streams of income. We discuss real estate licensure, differences between being a real estate agent vs. investor, the types of income generated, and the tax implications. We then discuss concierge psychiatry, tele-psychiatry, home visits, and building a practice during fellowship. Fantastic interview. Bio: Brook Choulet MD, is a concierge psychiatrist, physician coach, real estate investor, entrepreneur, and speaker. Dr. Choulet is also the founder of Choulet Wellness in Scottsdale, Arizona. Dr. Choulet was raised in San Diego, California, and graduated from La Jolla Country Day School. She completed a Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Arts and her medical degree at the University of Missouri Kansas City's rigorous six year BA/MD program. She obtained her medical degree at the age of 24 and pursued training in General Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix. Dr. Choulet continued her training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry through Creighton University's fellowship program in Phoenix, Arizona. She is currently in her last year of the program and had the honor of being nominated as Vice Chief Fellow. Following in the footsteps of her mother and grandfather, she will be a third-generation adult, child and adolescent psychiatrist. Aside from her career as a psychiatrist, Dr. Choulet has a passion for helping other physicians identify their career goals and grow their practices. She built her business during her residency training and began to expand and hire other practitioners while still in fellowship. Dr. Choulet sees adults and adolescents currently in her private practice, Choulet Wellness, and focuses on using a combination of medication management and therapy utilizing a modern approach to mental health care. The concierge services include house visits and after hours phone/text availability. Choulet Wellness is currently located in Scottsdale, AZ and will be expanding into Paradise Valley, AZ in the fall of 2021. Dr. Choulet also obtained her Arizona real estate license and is an active investor. She can be reached at: www.chouletwellness.com and IG @chouletwellness This week's show is sponsored by The Scope of Practice Marriage and Money MD Summit happening November 15-17, where you will hear form 18+ different physician speakers discuss money, finances, and marriage and strategies for strengthening each pillar. It is completely free to sign up with optional VIP upgrades and bonuses.
Episode 81 - Dr. Brook Choulet is one of the only concierge psychiatrists in the US and is currently in the process of expanding her private practice to a large wellness center that offers several different wellness services. She built this practice from the ground up in less than 1 year and started it as a resident! She's got an incredible story and I'm excited for her to share some tips from her experience that I think will help you as you're building or growing your own business. After hearing this episode, you are going to wonder what's stopping you. Dr. Brook Choulet is a concierge psychiatrist and the founder of Choulet Wellness in Scottsdale, Arizona. Dr. Choulet was raised in San Diego, California, and graduated from La Jolla Country Day School. She completed a Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Arts and her medical degree at the University of Missouri Kansas City's rigorous six year BA/MD program. She obtained her medical degree at the age of 24 and pursued training in General Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix. Click here to download your free CME credits for listening to the show! Register for the Marriage and Money, M.D. Summit for free!For physicians who want a stronger marriage and better path to building wealthJoin us for this incredible free online event November 15-17, 2021!Medical careers drain time and energy from physicians and their spouses, not to mention the crushing debt most doctors are faced with when they first come out of training. The Marriage and Money, M.D. summit is a free 3-day online event that will give physician families the tools, resources, and encouragement they need to strengthen their marriage and build wealth so they can have the happy family and financial independence they deserve!Click here to learn more and sign up for free today!Register for the A.I. and Automation Summit for Free!Managing a Physician Practice is hard. Running a private medical practice involves so much more than medicine. To succeed, you need robust billing systems, a cohesive company culture, tried-and-true hiring and training practices, and effective ways to manage physician burnout. And that's to say nothing of finding time to manage the day-to-day operations between seeing patients. How can you make it all work seamlessly? With a little help from AI and automation.At the Physician Practice Automation Summit:You'll learn how the most successful doctors incorporate artificial intelligence and smart systems into their business model to scale and grow.Discover innovative ways to cut costs, save time, boost productivity, reduce employee turnover, generate more revenue, improve communication, and more.This week-long free event will help you create a practice you love (and one you can walk away from whenever you wish). And it's all yours with your FREE Ticket to Physician Practice Automation SummitCheck out the additional free resources available at The Scope of Practice!Business management resourcesPersonal finance resourcesRecommended online coursesRecommended books
Brook Choulet, MD, is here today to discuss How and Where and Why to Seek Help. There has been an uptick of adults AND kids who have anxiety. How do you know when it's time to seek help? Getting treatment isn't a sign of failure. There are several effective types of therapy, like cognitive behavioral therapy (or CBT), which helps us understand how our thoughts are affecting our behavior, and EMDR. Many of these can be done remotely now. Medication, especially SSRI's, are often used in combination with therapy to increase serotonin in your brain. So, how can we help our loved ones when we feel like they need it? Dr. Choulet will share helpful information surrounding these topics in today's podcast. Brook Choulet, MD, is a concierge psychiatrist and the founder of Choulet Wellness in Scottsdale, Arizona. She completed a Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Arts and her medical degree at the University of Missouri Kansas City's rigorous six year BA/MD program. She pursued training in General Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix. Dr. Choulet continued her training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry through Creighton University's fellowship program in Phoenix, Arizona. She is currently in her last year of the program and had the honor of being nominated as Vice Chief Fellow. Dr. Choulet has a passion for helping other physicians identify their career goals and grow their practices as well. Dr. Choulet has been working with many physicians across the country to help them build the private practice of their dreams. She can be found on Instagram and Facebook at @chouletwellness, and on her website at www.brookchouletmd.com. Dr. Hammerstedt and her lifestyle coaching team can be found at www.wholisthealth.com and @wholisthealth on Facebook and Instagram as well as the Facebook group Curate Your Health. Wholist helps high performing women and men lose weight for the last time, with an innovative food and mindset coaching program to blueprint YOUR optimal body and mind, with real food, real work, real results… and no products or BS. Come curate YOUR sustainable health future, and personal and professional dynasty. And remember, Who you choose to be Matters. You are valuable, You are worth this, You are your WholeYou.
Join your host Andrew Tisser with his guest Dr. Brook Choulet, as they speak about how Dr. Brook started her own private practice while still in training, how she got into active real estate investing, and how she handles the negativity toward private practice. For Dr. Brook, most naysayers who speak against private practice usually speak from fear and risk aversion. But if you ask her? There isn't any better time to start anything as a physician than during your time in residency.In this episode you will learn:· Can you start a private practice while in training?· Private practice is definitely not dead!· The practical steps to take when starting your own practice.· What is concierge medicine?· There's no better time to start something fresh than when you're in residency.About Dr. Brook Choulet:Brook Choulet, MD, is a concierge psychiatrist and the founder of Choulet Wellness in Scottsdale, Arizona. Dr. Choulet was raised in San Diego, California, and graduated from La Jolla Country Day School. She completed a Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Arts and her medical degree at the University of Missouri Kansas City's rigorous six-year BA/MD program. She obtained her medical degree at the age of 24 and pursued training in General Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix. Dr. Choulet continued her training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry through Creighton University's fellowship program in Phoenix, Arizona. She is currently in her last year of the program and had the honor of being nominated as Vice Chief Fellow. Following in the footsteps of her mother and grandfather, she will be a third-generation adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist.Aside from her career as a psychiatrist, Dr. Choulet has a passion for helping other physicians identify their career goals and grow their practices. She built her business during her residency training and began to expand and hire other practitioners while still in fellowship. Dr. Choulet sees adults and adolescents currently in her private practice, Choulet Wellness, and focuses on using a combination of medication management and therapy. Find Dr. Brook Choulet:Website: https://www.chouletwellness.com/ https://www.brookchouletmd.com/index.htmlLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/choulet-wellnessFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/chouletwellnessInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/chouletwellness/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/paradisevalleypsychiatry/ Connect with Talk2Medoc on:Website: https://www.andrewtisserdo.com/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewtisserdo/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Talk2MeDoc
Dr. Brook Choulet is a concierge psychiatrist and the founder of Choulet Wellness in Scottsdale, Arizona. Dr. Choulet was raised in San Diego, California, and completed her medical degree at the University of Missouri Kansas City's rigorous six-year BA/MD program. She then pursued training in General Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. She is currently in her final year of training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry through Creighton University's fellowship program in Phoenix, Arizona. Following in the footsteps of her mother and grandfather, she will be a third-generation adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist. She built her own concierge-style business during her residency and began to expand and hire other practitioners while still in fellowship. In her private practice, she focuses on using a combination of medication management and therapy. The practice consists of a single office now and will be expanding into a second office this fall. She has other interests, including a desire to help other physicians identify their career goals and grow their practices. So she mentors and consults with other physicians wishing to start their own practices. And she recently obtained her real estate license. Brook explains how she started her concierge practice, and why it eliminates most of the headaches of typical employment. And she believes that other physicians should consider starting a similar type of cash-based clinic, whether using the membership or hourly pay-as-you-go model. To access the show notes and all of the links for this episode, go to nonclinicalphysicians.com/establish-a-concierge-practice If you'd like to join my NEW Nonclinical Mastermind Group opening this fall, you can learn about it and join the waiting list at nonclinicalphysicians.com/mastermind. Get an updated edition of the FREE GUIDE to 10 Nonclinical Careers at nonclinicalphysicians.com/freeguide. Get a list of 70 nontraditional jobs at nonclinicalphysicians.com/70jobs. Check out a FREE WEBINAR called Best Options for an Interesting and Secure Nonclinical Job at nonclinicalphysicians.com/freewebinar1
With taxes pitted against you, it's time to stop trading your hours for dollars and start making money work for you! Vasu Kakarlapudi, MD was born in India, raised in Kansas City, and used his academic excellence to gain admission to an accelerated 6 year BA / MD program at the University of Missouri. He trained as an Ear, Nose, Throat, Head & Neck Surgeon and since has had a passion for bringing colleagues together. Dr. Vasu used his entrepreneurial skills as a founding board member of 50 plus physician-owned hospitals and also to create real estate opportunities for his partners through the development of multiple medical offices. In over 15 years of real estate investing, he has been successful in growing his passive income and net worth in retail, medical office, senior care, and multifamily. It is that passion to pay his knowledge and experience forward as Managing Partner of Apta Properties. Let's dive right in, get to know Dr. Vasu, and learn more about how to make your money work for you no matter what level of activity you bring to an investment. From Medical Specialist to Real Estate Investor - [00:01 – 07:17] I welcome Vasu Kakarlapudi, MD to the show Bio Dr. Vasu gives some background on his life and mission Born in India, raised in Kansas City Going into medicine Transitioning into residency Making money work for you Using the vehicle of real estate How to Make Your Money Work for You - [07:18 – 16:48] Dr. Vasu talks about the transition into real estate One step at a time Convincing partners Benefits Impacting others' lives Becoming a mentor Deals with friends and family Allowing any level of activity Choose your own level of activity Final Questions - [16:49 - 24:26] What is your biggest superpower? Good at analyzing risk What was your biggest failure? Going into the ENT business Provide value to business models How are you making the world a better place? Helping underprivileged; kids get opportunities How to engage with Dr. Vasu Links below Final words Tweetable Quotes: “Take one step at a time… You can read all the books you want, you can listen to all the podcasts, but ultimately it requires action.” - Vasu Kakarlapudi, MD “Different strokes for different folks… I'm active on some deals, I'm passive on others; diversification is certainly important for your investment portfolio and life in general.” - Vasu Kakarlapudi, MD Resources: Good to Great Apna Foundation Want to connect with Dr. Vasu? You can find him on LinkedIn. Check out https://www.aptaproperties.com/ for more property investment opportunities! Try out SyndicationPro: Raise more capital in less time! Join the MFIN Summit and use our promo code: QUATTRO LEAVE A 5 STAR REVIEW + help someone who wants to explode their business growth by sharing this episode. Find out how team Quattro can help you by visiting www.TheQuattroWay.com. Real Estate Runway Podcast is all about alternative business and investment strategies to help you amplify life, and maximize wealth! Click here to find out more about the host, Chad Sutton.
In this episode we interview Dr. Gurleen Chadha, a third year psychiatry resident at Banner University Medical Center Phoenix. Enjoy!Tell me about yourself generally, where are you from, what do you like to do (any hobbies), anything from the bio I missed? (2:29)Can you briefly touch on the BA/MD program that you completed for our students not yet in medical school? (4:28)Did you always want to go into medicine? If not, what else could you picture yourself as? (6:29)Did you always know you wanted to be a psychiatrist? If not, what other specialty intrigued you in med school? (7:16)What drew you to the residency program that you are at now? (10:59)What would you suggest students look for in a residency program? (13:17)How was the adjustment from medical school to residency? Did you do anything to prepare? (16:43)Can you describe your first year of residency? What was call like fore the first time, your favorite rotation, what you do to unwind, etc.? (21:34)What was second year like? (32:35)It seems that in a lot of programs first and second year are pretty regimented, whereas third and fourth year are a little more flexible with more outpatient exposure. How have you liked the transition so far? (38:03)What has been the balance between pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy in your residency thus far? (42:36)What has been one of your more memorable patient experiences? (45:04)Do you have any idea of how you want to structure your future practice? Inpatient, outpatient, fellowship, etc.? (47:45)Any last minute tips to help medical students shine on their rotations? (50:14)If someone has any questions for you specifically, what's a good way to get a hold of you? (54:11) gurleen.chadha@bannerhealth.com
By Michael Tetreault, Host, The DocPreneur Leadership Podcast, Editor, Concierge Medicine Today Today we're joined by Brook Choulet, MD, Founder of Choulet Wellness (www.chouletwellness.com), a concierge psychiatry and wellness practice in Scottsdale, AZ. Dr. Choulet is a "DocPreneur" in every sense of the word. In today's interview we will unpack her journey into psychiatry, her self-taught, exploratory path into starting her own concierge medicine and mental health practice and what her vision is FOR her Patients and local community. Meet Brook Choulet, MD Concierge Psychiatrist, Owner, Choulet Wellness www.chouletwellness.com Office (480) 370-5656 Email Dr. Choulet: info@chouletwellness.com Dr. Brook Choulet was raised in San Diego, California and graduated from La Jolla Country Day School. She then left San Diego after high school to attend a rigorous 6 year BA/MD at the University of Missouri Kansas City. Dr. Choulet obtained her MD at age 24 and pursued a residency in psychiatry at the University of Arizona Phoenix. Dr. Brook Choulet is currently completing a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry. Following in the footsteps of her mother and grandfather, she will be a third generation child and adolescent psychiatrist. About Choulet Wellness Choulet Wellness is a fee for service clinic, where insurance is not accepted. This approach allows the doctor and wellness specialists to focus on comprehensive patient care, where all clients receive VIP treatment. For those patients with insurance, you can request a superbill, which you can submit to your insurance for out-of-network benefit reimbursement. Learn More at www.chouletwellness.com. RESOURCES MENTIONED www.chouletwellness.com https://www.instagram.com/chouletwellness/ https://www.facebook.com/chouletwellness/ www.ConciergeMedicineForum.com www.DocPreneurPress.org www.ForDoctorsForum.org www.ConciergeMedicineToday.org
Has the thought “I want to become a doctor” ever crossed your mind? Listen as Sree and Dr. Deena, a graduate of a BA/MD program, discuss direct medicine programs in the United States and what it takes to get into medical school as a high school student.
Dr. Carney is a graduate of the UMKC School of Medicine's BA/MD program and completed her Emergency Medicine Residency as a Chief Resident at Truman Medical Center / UMKC SOM. She then completed an EMS Fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, and subsequently returned to Kansas City, MO as a double board-certified EM and EMS Physician. Dr. Carney currently practices as a staff physician in the Emergency Department at Truman Medical Center - Hospital Hill / UMKC SOM. She serves as the EMS Medical Director for the City of Kansas City, Missouri, Region A, Central Jackson County Fire Protection District, the UMKC EMS Education System, and the Kansas City Zoo. Her hobbies outside of work include sports, playing ukulele, and spending time with her family and friends. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Dr. Amrita Karve is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Women's Heart Program at Mount Carmel Health System. Dr. Karve, MD, FACC, is a cardiologist at Mount Carmel Health System, a large private community health system in Columbus, Ohio. The Women's Heart Program was created to increase awareness of heart disease in women, reduce gender disparities in diagnosis and treatment, and to provide a concierge experience for women of all socioeconomic classes to be more engaged in their health. Dr. Karve is a member and guest speaker for the American Heart Association and is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, and echocardiography. Her special interests include women's health and innovative clinical approaches to obesity medicine. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from George Washington University's BA/MD program in 2004, completed her residency in internal medicine at the University of Michigan in 2014, and cardiology fellowship at Ohio State University in 2017. We discussed underdiagnosis for women's heart diseases, risk factors for women's heart diseases and the women's heart program at the Mount Carmel Health System. Check out The Women's Heart Program at the Mount Carmel Health System at https://www.mountcarmelhealth.com/find-a-service-or-specialty/womens-heart-program/ Rate, Review & Subscribe!
Dr. Carney is a graduate of the UMKC School of Medicine's BA/MD program and completed her Emergency Medicine Residency as a Chief Resident at Truman Medical Center / UMKC SOM. She then completed an EMS Fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, and subsequently returned to Kansas City, MO as a double board-certified EM and EMS Physician. Dr. Carney currently practices as a staff physician in the Emergency Department at Truman Medical Center - Hospital Hill / UMKC SOM. She serves as the EMS Medical Director for the City of Kansas City, Missouri, Region A, Central Jackson County Fire Protection District, the UMKC EMS Education System, and the Kansas City Zoo. Her hobbies outside of work include sports, playing ukulele, and spending time with her family and friends. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Apple VP of Health and Stanford Clinical Professor, Dr. Sumbul Desai, discusses her journey through medicine after a career in journalism at ABC News and Strategy at Disney. Sumbul shares her heartwarming story behind her career in medicine, journalism, and media to become a tech executive spearheading Apple's work in health and wellness. Join for an conversation around indirect paths through medicine, the potential traps of BA/MD programs, becoming a tech executive from medicine without an MBA, and more. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tdio/message
Meet Dr. Nekia Barrow - OBGYN, amazing wife, and all around "real" doc. Listen to this episode to learn more about: 1. How she did college and medical school in 7 years through the 7 year BA/MD program at Brooklyn College that leads to a SUNY Downstate Medical Degree 2. How she switched from General surgery to Obstetric and Gynecology during medical school 3. How she balances being married in medicine and what that means for her career 4. Her tips for burn out prevention & self care & more! Take 30 minutes and learn more about what is means to be a married, Black woman in the OB-GYN field. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nikkif_md/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/real-medicine-with-dr-rox/message
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Today’s infertility patients are more informed, empowered, and have more choice than ever before. 77% of patients search their physician online before booking an appointment, and almost three quarters (72%) of patients use online reviews as the very first step to finding a new doctor.Social media has become a go-to source of information, particularly where infertility patients are concerned. There is a lot of empowering and useful information on social media, but misleading and inaccurate data exist online as well. How do you know when a reproductive endocrinologist is telling the whole truth, and how can you spot a potential conflict of interest?When selecting an infertility clinic, patients want accessibility and connection with the clinics they choose, over and above excellent care. Many clinics near you may be honest, trustworthy, and genuinely care about the patient. So what sets one apart from the rest? In this episode, Kenan Omurtag, M.D., associate professor of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the Washington University St. Louis School of Medicine, OBGYN department, joins host Mark P. Trolice, M.D., to discuss the role of social media and online reviews when choosing an infertility clinic, the status of social media today, and where it may be headed in the future.Tune in to discover:The value of social media for infertility clinics and patientsRed flags you should be aware of on social media and how to deal with themTips to help you determine potential conflicts of interestWhich factors carry the most weight for patients when deciding on an infertility specialistThe top online portals to source fertility clinic information (see links below)Notes:www.sart.orgwww.arsm.org (Reproductive Facts.Org)www.resolve.org (emotional support)About Kenan Omurtag, M.D.Kenan Omurtag, MD is associate professor of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the Washington University St. Louis School of Medicine, Department of OBGYN. He received his medical degree from the 6-year combined BA/MD program at the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Medicine and completed his residency in OBGYN at Emory University in Atlanta, GA and Fellowship at Washington University St Louis School of Medicine. Dr. Omurtag completed his formal training at age 31 and became board-certified in 2015, making him one of the youngest board certified physicians in both obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive endocrinology and infertility. Dr. Omurtag is a nationally-known scholar due to his research efforts focusing on three core fronts: male factor infertility, social media use among fertility clinics and their patients, and access to assisted reproductive technology (ART).Dr. Omurtag is highly lauded by his patients as he works to help couples and individuals navigate the highs and lows of the short, or sometimes long, journey to parenthood. Along with the fertility treatments he can offer, Dr. Omurtag believes in the power of compassion, advocacy and the most innovative technology and resources to help people become parents.About Mark P. Trolice, M.D.Mark P. Trolice, M.D., FACOG, FACS, FACE is Director of Fertility CARE: The IVF Center in Winter Park, Florida and Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology (OB/GYN) at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine in Orlando responsible for the medical education of OB/GYN residents and medical students as well as Medical Endocrinology fellows. He is past President of the Florida Society of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility (REI) and past Division Director
Why You Should Listen: In this episode, you will learn about autoimmunity and neurology in the context of Lyme disease and co-infections. About My Guest: My guest for this episode is Dr. Elena Frid, MD. Dr. Elena Frid is a Board Certified Neurologist and Clinical Neurophysiologist, widely regarded as a investigating diagnostician, adviser and treatment strategist specializing in Infection-Induced Autoimmune Disorders. Pioneering the field of Autoimmune Neurology, she often sees patients with complex cases of Lyme disease and co-infections resulting in multiple neurological complaints. Using cutting edge diagnostic tools and clinical expertise she is able to differentiate between idiopathic vs organic causes of various neurological disorders. Dr. Frid attended a coveted BA/MD program at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and went on to North Shore-LIJ Health Care Systems where she completed residency in Neurology and fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology (EMG / EEG). Her many areas of expertise are: General Neurology, Headaches & Migraines, Autoimmune Neurology, Neuropsychiatric and Neurodegenerative Disorders. Her knowledge has been sought by patients from all over the United States, as well as England, Germany, Spain, Australia, and Canada. She is one of the most experienced and unique Lyme doctors in the field, due to her background in Autoimmune Neurology, with heavy focus on diagnostic methodology, clinical expertise in neurology and psychiatry, and treatment therapy encompassing western and eastern medicine. Dr. Frid is a member of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN). She is a voting member of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS), Medical Adviser to the Project Lyme organization, and member of the Independent Physicians of New York (IDNY). Upon request from families, Dr. Frid frequently collaborates on complex pediatric cases of Neuro Lyme disease with Dr. Charles Ray Jones, a world leading pediatric Lyme disease specialist with over 40 years’ experience in dealing with children with Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses. Key Takeaways: - How often is chronic Lyme neuro-Lyme? - What triggers autoimmunity? - Can autoimmune lab indicators be reversed? - What drives Hashimoto's? - How do you calm an over-active immune system? - What are the underlying issues in Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, MS, Parkinson's, ALS, and Alzheimer's? - What is PANDAS and PANS and does it resolve with treatment? - How do we keep our brains working well? - How can we heal the nerves after years of assault from chronic infections? - How can we reduce inflammation? - What causes seizures? Tinnitus? - What can we do about fear and anxiety involved in dealing with Lyme? Connect With My Guest: http://www.elenafridmd.com Interview Date: July 7, 2017 Disclaimer: The content of this show is for informational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any illness or medical condition. Nothing in today's discussion is meant to serve as medical advice or as information to facilitate self-treatment. As always, please discuss any potential health-related decisions with your own personal medical authority.
Neurologist Elena Frid, MD, discusses the latest Lyme disease findings, Lyme misinformation, how to protect yourself against Lyme disease, and how to treat ongoing Lyme symptoms. Serena Marie, RD, explains how to become a fat-adapted runner and how to transition away from fueling with carbohydrates. Featured Guest: Elena Frid, MD Pleate note: Always consult your physician. The following interview is not intended to replace the advice of your physician or medical care provider. The mid-Atlantic, northeast region of the United States, among other areas, faces a great risk for Lyme disease—of an endemic (regularly found among particular people or in a certain area) proportion. Neurologist, Dr. Elena Frid, who specializes in Lyme disease, joins Kari to inform listeners about this horrible disease. For the last five years, Dr. Frid has treated adult patients with Lyme disease, and she feels that ultimately Lyme disease is a neurologic condition. She has attended different conferences, such as the International Lyme and Associated Disease Society (ILADS) conference. She has attended such events as the Hugged by Global Lyme Alliance and has become part of their medical advisory board. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection and is a very elusive type of organism. It is often very difficult for doctors to diagnose. For more information, go to the Lyme section of Dr. Frid's website. To find a Lyme-literate physician in your area, visit org. There are certain laboratory tests and physical exam findings that you can undergo, but not everyone will test positive even if they do have Lyme disease. The testing that's available now may be up to 50 percent inaccurate, according to Frid. She sees symptoms at the onset of the disease, such as low-grade fever, fatigue, chills, aches, headache, joint pain. The typical rash that occurs may actually happen in less than 50 percent of patients, and many times the rash isn't the classic bull's eye rash that people are told to look for. People can also develop neurologic symptoms when symptoms go undiagnosed for weeks or months, such as debilitating headaches, facial weakness (Bell's palsy), numbness or weakness in limbs, muscles aches and twitches, difficulty moving, debilitating fatigue, dizziness, nerve pain, and so on. Listen to your body, and you will know that something is wrong. Don't excuse symptoms as just stress. To diagnose Lymes disease, doctors should consider the patient's history, a physical exam, and blood work, as well as MRIs or nerve testing. Blood tests may be 50 percent inaccurate, and if you get tested within 4 weeks of a tick bite, the test is only 30 percent accurate. The criteria established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is very strict. Frid recommends getting to know more about the blood testing and speaking to Lyme-literate physicians, especially if you've had a thorough medical workup for your symptoms and all other tests come back negative. She recommends going to org to find Lyme-literate physicians. In terms of geography, Lyme disease is more prevalent in the northeastern states like NY, CT, PA, and NJ. However, Lyme has been reported in every state in the United States, according to Frid. If you do find a tick on yourself, you can send the tick in to be tested to bayarealyme.org. Ticks are extremely small. Adult ticks are only the size of a poppy seed. You should check for ticks after you've been outdoors in grassy, wooded areas. Have a partner check for you, particularly around the groin area, between your toes ,under your armpits, behind the ears and knees, and in the hair line. To remove a tick, grab it by the head and pull it out. Use a magnifying glass and tweezers. You can save the tick in a plastic, sealed bag. Many Lyme-literate physicians are now saying that the literature that says you are not prone to Lyme disease if a tick has been attached for 72 hours or less is incorrect. If you go into an emergency room and they say you don't need to worry since the tick has only been attached for an hour or two, you might want to seek a second opinion. To prevent getting Lyme disease, wear proper clothing, such as long-sleeve shirts, long pants, socks, light-colored clothing, and closed-toed shoes. You can pretreat your clothing (by soaking) with a permethrin pesticide that binds to the fabric. There are natural repellents too, such as Buzz Away. To protect your yard, you can use fencing and mulch. The CDC acknowledges the fact that patients may have chronic Lyme symptoms even after adequate diagnosis and treatment. The body develops antibodies and is essentially fighting itself. Some Lyme-literate doctors believe that it could be or is an ongoing infection that was never fully treated. They believe that you need to be treated for six to eight weeks instead of just two to three weeks after exposure to a tick. The bacteria multiplies every four weeks. If you are exposed to a tick, especially in those endemic regions, Dr. Frid suggests starting treatment even before testing the tick. Frid recommends a healthier diet for patients, but she wants to emphasize that if you do have Lyme symptoms, you cannot treat it just with diet. You have to treat it appropriately and then supplement with smart food choices and physical activities. She recommends foods that increase good bacteria in your gut (refrigerated fermented foods, yogurt). She suggests staying away from a lot of sugar or grains and making smart decisions. Besides medication and nutrition, you can work out as long as you are able. To support loved ones with Lyme disease, you can simply be there for them and believe them. Some Lyme patients have a hard time convincing others that something is wrong, because physically they may look fine. Be patient with the expectations for treatment durations (which can take up to one to three years) and help the patient be an advocate for him or herself. After any elective surgical procedures (tooth extraction, labor and delivery, gall bladder removal), due to stress on your body, Lyme symptoms may become accentuated and out of control. Frid says that the answer to whether someone can give Lyme disease to someone else through sexual contact is unclear. At this time, there is no Lyme disease vaccine for humans. She believes that this disease should really be called tick-borne illnesses, because there are other infections that may be transmitted through ticks including bacteria and viruses that may take a long time to treat. She recommends a four-step approach to know when to come off of medication. There is no set time frame, since every body is different: Once you've been on antibiotics, recheck your blood work to make sure that the antibodies are clearing or have cleared. Make sure that you've been asymptomatic for two months while you're still on antibiotics. You've had an illness unrelated to Lyme disease during this period that has not exacerbated your symptoms. When you know/feel that it's all gone. Serena Marie, RD Go-to, real-food dietician answers a listener's question about fat-adapted running and how to transition from being a carb-fueled athlete to a fat-fueled athlete. Serena's information is based on the following literature and her blog post “Real Food Fueling for Runners”. “Utilization of lipids during exercise in human subjects: metabolic and dietary constraints” “Fat Metabolism During Exercise: A Review. Part III: Effects of Nutritional Interventions” “Strategies to enhance fat utilisation during exercise” In order to transition from being a carb-fueled athlete to someone who relies on fat to fuel, it's important to do a few things prior to race day. Regularly engage in fasted cardio. Practice doing fasted runs with caffeine. Perform endurance exercise on a regular basis. For seven to ten days prior to race day, transition your diet to being a high-fat diet where 60–70 percent of your calories come from fat. You can go over an hour or two during a run without consuming calories by using your own body fat (your own endogenous fat stores) to fuel. You might just need to take something with electrolytes in it during a long run. Question: How do you get used to and comfortable doing fasted runs? Answer: Take a little bit of dark chocolate or a scoop of peanut butter or coconut oil along as you transition to being totally fasted when running. The first few runs during your transition could be difficult. But remember that every body is different. Your magnesium becomes depleted in the body very quickly, so it's important to supplement with magnesium. Serena and Kari also talk about magnesium deficiency in “Teri Goetz” (Episode 54). Dark, green leafy vegetables and bitter chocolate both have good amounts of magnesium in them. If you don't choose a diet high in fat, it's still possible to still do well doing fasted cardio. If you can do fasted runs, it suggests that your body is good at being fat adapted. Gratitude Jar (Woot! Woot!) Serena is grateful when listeners contact her via social media! She and Kari have so much fun interacting with listeners, so please tweet Serena at @SerenaMarieRD and Kari @KariGormley. You can also connect on Facebook via The Running Lifestyle Show page. Kari is extremely grateful that she can reach out to rock stars like Dr. Elena Frid to get all the latest information concerning key topics. Next week, Kari interviews the TRLS April Book Club author, Laura Vanderkam, who wrote 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think You Do. Vanderkam will chat about her book, answer questions, talk about her running journey, and is also the featured Runner of the Week. Contact: Elena Frid: Website: NeuroAssociatesNY.com or ElenaFridMD.com Bio: Dr. Elena Frid is an American board certified neurologist who holds double board certifications from The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) and The American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology (ABCN). Dr. Frid helps patients (18+) with diagnosis, treatment, and management of disorders affecting the nervous system, muscles, peripheral nerves, spine, and the brain. She is also a Lyme Literate specialist who sees patient with Neuroborreliosis and other tick borne diseases and works close with Infectious Disease specialists and Primary Care physicians to encompass the best possible treatment. Dr. Frid received her BA/MD degree from Rutgers Medical School, NJ and her residency, chief resident and fellowship training in Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology from North Shore University Hospital-Hofstra North Shore LIJ School of Medicine, NY. She is currently a medical director at Neurology Associates of New York, a private practice in New York City on the Upper East Side. Serena Marie, RD: Website: www.SerenaMarieRD.com Facebook: /SerenaMarieRD Twitter: @SerenaMarieRD Instagram: SerenaMarieRD Kari Gormley: Facebook: The Running Lifestyle Show Twitter: @KariGormley Instagram: @KariGormley
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Peter Angelos, MD. PhD, is the Linda Kohler Anderson Professor of Surgery, chief of endocrine surgery, and associate director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Dr. Angelos earned his bachelor’s and medical degrees from Boston University in a six-year accelerated BA/MD program. During medical school, he entered the PhD program in philosophy at Boston University where he pursued study of the philosophical basis of medical ethics. As our faculty member, Dr. Angelos is not only a highly regarded surgeon and expert in treating endocrine cancer, but he also leads the first surgical ethics program in the world. Last year, his fellow faculty members named Dr. Angelos the University of Chicago Medical Center Faculty Physician Peer Role Model for his embodiment of medical professionalism. The “Big Ideas in Medicine” series is part of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine admitted student weekend. The panel of speakers features five leading physicians and scientists whose work has had a transformative impact in their respective fields. What will not be obvious from their talks is that students at Pritzker interact with these faculty members on a daily basis. They are our students’ teachers, mentors, and advisors, along with being our institution’s leaders. It is these daily interactions of students and faculty that provide Pritzker's enriching intellectual environment and unparalleled opportunities for our students to learn from some of the most important physicians and scientists in the country.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Peter Angelos, MD. PhD, is the Linda Kohler Anderson Professor of Surgery, chief of endocrine surgery, and associate director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Dr. Angelos earned his bachelor’s and medical degrees from Boston University in a six-year accelerated BA/MD program. During medical school, he entered the PhD program in philosophy at Boston University where he pursued study of the philosophical basis of medical ethics. As our faculty member, Dr. Angelos is not only a highly regarded surgeon and expert in treating endocrine cancer, but he also leads the first surgical ethics program in the world. Last year, his fellow faculty members named Dr. Angelos the University of Chicago Medical Center Faculty Physician Peer Role Model for his embodiment of medical professionalism. The “Big Ideas in Medicine” series is part of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine admitted student weekend. The panel of speakers features five leading physicians and scientists whose work has had a transformative impact in their respective fields. What will not be obvious from their talks is that students at Pritzker interact with these faculty members on a daily basis. They are our students’ teachers, mentors, and advisors, along with being our institution’s leaders. It is these daily interactions of students and faculty that provide Pritzker's enriching intellectual environment and unparalleled opportunities for our students to learn from some of the most important physicians and scientists in the country.
UNM's BA/MD degree program, a collaboration between UNM's College of Arts and Sciences and the UNM School of Medicine, aims to get more physicians practicing in rural and underserved areas of New Mexico. HSC TV first profiled the program and some of its very first students in 2009 ( http://youtu.be/V_c6Rd-IIHY ), as the program was just getting off the ground. Now fully funded and thriving, we check back with some of the same students we featured in our 2009 story, to find out how they're faring in medical school and how they hope to one day pay back the opportunity by practicing medicine in their home state.
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