Was your medical education enough to handle everything physician life demands? From lawsuits to leadership, career decisions to challenging conversations, balancing the personal with the professional — not enough was addressed in medical school, residency or fellowship. This medical podcast fills those gaps so you can live up to the expectations that come with the white coat — not just in the exam room, but in all the places your MD follows you. This show is the physician mentor you didn’t r ...
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Better Physician Life: How to Get Unstuck in Your Medical Career
Doctor Podcast Network, Physician Coach, Michael Hersh MD
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Many physicians feel stuck. But what if mid-career medicine didn’t mean burnout, boredom, or being boxed in? Better Physician Life, hosted by Dr. Michael Hersh, is the podcast that helps doctors reclaim clarity, joy, and purpose in their careers—without quitting medicine. Through honest solo episodes and transformative guest interviews, Dr. Hersh explores what it really means to design a life in medicine on your own terms. This is where mindset meets reinvention—and where stuck doctors find ...
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Scalpel and Sword: Conflict and Negotiation in Modern Medicine
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Behind every procedure, every patient encounter, lies an untold story of conflict and negotiation. Scalpel and Sword, hosted by Dr. Lee Sharma—physician, mediator, and guide—invites listeners into the unseen battles and breakthroughs of modern medicine. With real conversations, human stories, and practical tools, this podcast empowers physicians to reclaim their voices, sharpen their skills, and wield their healing power with both precision and purpose.
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Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary is the longest-running independent healthcare podcast. 17 years of unfiltered truth about American healthcare. Matthew survived brain cancer at 21, built the young adult cancer movement from nothing, and now channels patient rage into political power. Each episode features battle-scarred survivors, exhausted caregivers, and the rare insider brave enough to name what's killing us. Real stories from real people who refuse to accept that healthcare has to hu ...
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Julie Soukup Hosts. With Medical Memory recording over 150,000 (and counting) patients, we felt it relevant to start discussing what are the best practices in patient communication and how can we optimize these conversations now captured and recorded by video. We will be meeting with industry and video communication experts about how to elevate these conversations to optimize time, and maximize the patient experience. What can we learn from the medical and surrounding industries now that the ...
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Join host Lindsey Smith and other Osmosis team members for a global conversation about improving health and healthcare with prominent figures in education and healthcare innovation such as Chelsea Clinton, Mark Cuban, Dr. Ashish Jha, Dr. Eric Topol, Dr. Vivian Lee and Sal Khan, as well as senior leaders at organizations such as the CDC, National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins University, WHO, Harvard University, NYU Langone and many others.
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Do you work in medicine and love patient care but feel like parts of the job don’t measure up? Stimulus equips you with tools, mindset shifts, and strategies they didn’t teach you in training—so you can practice medicine like a boss, flourish in your career, and not let it crush your soul. Emergency physician and executive coach Rob Orman, MD, goes in-depth with thought leaders on how to avoid burnout, improve communication, lead without drama, and stay calm amidst the storm. Don’t just suck ...
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Join us as we discuss topics related to seniors and their caregivers, curated to enrich their lives. SeniorLivingGuide.com Podcast invites guests who are experts on a variety of topics. Our podcasts are designed to reach seniors and caregivers with enlightening, engaging, and resourceful information in each jam-packed episode in an effort to give them the tools needed to pursue a better quality of life as they age. Sponsored by: TerraBella Senior Living and Tom Marks, Best Selling Author on ...
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The Doctor's Mentor® Show: Ideal Medical Practice | Business of Medicine | Entrepreneurship | Exit Strategies | Docgitimacy™
Lori L Barr MD: Practice, Career and Lifestyle Mentor and Radiologist
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Before medical school you want to help people feel better. Once you start training and get into your practice,whether it is private, hospital-based, institutional, academic or corporate, you discover the distress of toxic work habits, stressed health professionals and bureaucracy. You are in danger of becoming a faceless white coat that doesn't have a clue how to feel good! This show meets doctors and allied health professionals where they are, from medical school, residency, fellowship, pra ...
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Designing Healthcare that Cares is a podcast for leaders who believe healthcare can, and must, be built differently. Hosted by physician, executive coach, speaker, author, and consultant Dr. Laura Suttin, each episode explores how to transform burnout-driven systems into thriving cultures where both people and performance flourish.Through thoughtful conversations with healthcare executives, frontline leaders, and changemakers, along with solo episodes where Dr. Suttin shares practical tools, ...
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Living with lung cancer isn't just about treatment plans and statistics—it's about the raw, real, messy truth of what it means to survive. No topic is off-limits. No question is too uncomfortable. No experience is too raw to share.
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THRIVING MINDS PODCAST
Professor Selena Bartlett, Neuroscientist, Brain Health is Everyone's Business
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Do you want to learn how to build resilience, boost your cognitive performance, and achieve mental agility? Then it's time to discover the exciting world of brain health and fitness with Thriving Minds. Hosted by renowned neuroscientist Professor Selena Bartlett, Thriving Minds is a podcast dedicated to exploring the latest advances in brain science education. With decades of experience studying addiction, stress, and mental health, Professor Bartlett is a true expert in her field. And she's ...
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Dental Marketing Leader, Grace Rizza hosts Dentistry's Growing with Grace, a dental podcast about marketing, entrepreneurship, and leadership. Get the industry's top innovation, tips, and advice while enjoying a moment of positivity.
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The Prosperous Doc Podcast (formerly the White Coat Wellness Podcast) is a show for doctors who are ready to improve their overall wellness in every aspect of life. In each episode we highlight real-life stories from physicians and dentists to inspire you to become a prosperous doc yourself and achieve personal, professional, and financial wellness. If you would like to know more about the Prosperous Doc show, find show notes, and learn more about our host, Shane Tenny, visit bit.ly/Prospero ...
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Doctor-Patient Communication: What We Didn’t Learn in Medical Training with Dr. Bradley Block | Ep19
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What if the key to better patient interactions isn't more time or expertise, but how you show up? In this episode of Better Physician Life, Dr. Michael Hersh sits with Dr. Bradley Block as he shares his journey from communication struggles to mastery. Starting his podcast after a frustrating clinic day that cost him family time, Dr. Block reveals w…
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Your work world is built on endurance, intensity, and mastery. The culture is 'always on,' and you were trained to perform in conditions no one would call normal. The work is supranormal. It sits at the edge of reasonable and regularly exceeds what is sustainable by most standards. High performers like you often find themselves on an above-the-fray…
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The Case for Physician Coaching: From Anecdotes to Evidence with Dr. Tyra Fainstad and Dr. Adrienne Mann| Ep20
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What if coaching isn't just hype, but evidence-backed medicine for your well-being? In this episode of Better Physician Life, Dr. Michael Hersh sits with Dr. Adrienne Mann and Dr. Tyra Fainstad, as they share their skeptical starts with physician coaching and how it evolved into a groundbreaking program. Drawing from personal rock-bottom moments an…
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EP31 – How More Doctors Are Quietly Building 7-Figure Passive Income with Private Real Estate
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From Burnout to Better Leadership: Practical Tools with Ellen Whitlock Baker | Ep51
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Burnout rarely shows up all at once. It creeps in quietly — disguised as overwhelm, responsibility, and “this is just how work is.” Ellen Whitlock Baker knows this firsthand. After nearly 20 years in higher education leadership, she hit a breaking point that forced her to confront something deeper than stress: misalignment between her values, her i…
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Aligning Investment in Family Medicine With Its Impact: Dr. Jen Brull, Board Chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians
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“Delivering a baby one day and holding a patient’s hand at the end of life literally the next day...that continuity is very powerful,” says Dr. Jen Brull, board chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). And as she points out, that continuity also builds trust with patients, an increasingly valuable commodity when faith in medicine …
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Communicating With Your Doctor: Knowing When It’s Time to Switch
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Changing doctors can feel overwhelming, but it’s often an important part of getting the right care—especially in lung cancer. In this episode of Living With Lung Cancer: Ask Me Anything, host Annabelle Gurwitch talks with advocate Colette Smith about how to communicate your needs, recognize when a doctor isn’t the right fit, and build a care team t…
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Fresh vs. Frozen Veggies: Myth-Busting Your Way to Better Eating
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In this episode, we tackle the age-old debate of fresh versus frozen produce with two expert guests who bring real-world insights to your kitchen. Lisa Johnson, corporate dietitian for Homestyle Direct, and Maddie Ehrlich, Boise account manager for Simplot, join host Darleen Mahoney to bust myths and share practical wisdom about maximizing nutritio…
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How Physician Leaders Handle Change-Resistant Colleagues, with John Schneider, MD | Ep495
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Dr. MaryAnn Wilbur trained her whole life to care for patients, then left medicine behind when it became a machine that punished empathy and rewarded throughput. She didn’t burn out. She got out. A gynecologic oncologist, public health researcher, and no-bullshit single mom, MaryAnn walked straight off the cliff her career breadcrumbed her to—and l…
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Episode #207. Thank you for listening and a Blueprint for Feeling Good to Finish out 2025.
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Episode #207 marks a moment of deep gratitude and reflection. In this special episode, I look back on the journey that shaped Thriving Minds from the early days of questioning how the brain works, through decades of neuroscience, to the new era we are stepping into together. This episode explores how early life experiences shape the nervous system,…
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EP30 – If It’s Not Documented, It Didn’t Happen – Lessons from the Ambulance That Save Doctors in Court
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#206: Thriving Minds 2026: The Future is Connection, Healing & Human Potential
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2025 has felt like a turning point. Across this year’s Thriving Minds conversations—from brain health and dementia, to stress, team flow, near-death experiences, and the “neuroscience of two”—one message keeps rising to the surface: We are only just beginning to understand how powerful we are for each other’s brains. In this special reflection epis…
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Reimagining Public Health: Dr. Deb Houry, Former Chief Medical Officer at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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“This is a time to reimagine public health and public health/healthcare system integration,” says Dr. Deb Houry, the former chief medical officer for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In this thoughtful Raise the Line conversation, Dr. Houry reflects on unprecedented federal action in vaccine guidance and other issues since her not…
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How to Talk to Your Doctor: Shared Decision-Making in Lung Cancer Care
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Communication with your oncologist can make all the difference in your lung cancer journey. In this episode, host Annabelle Gurwitch talks with thoracic oncologist Dr. Alice Shaw about how to have more effective conversations with your care team. Learn practical strategies for discussing treatment goals, managing side effects, understanding biomark…
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Episode 5 of Standard Deviation with Oliver Bogler on the Out of Patients podcast feed pulls you straight into the story of Dr Ethan Moitra, a psychologist who fights for LGBTQ mental health while the system throws every obstacle it can find at him. Ethan built a study that tracked how COVID 19 tore through an already vulnerable community. He secur…
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The Good Cancer Club Sucks: Chelsea J. Smith
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Chelsea J. Smith walks into a studio and suddenly I feel like a smurf. She’s six-foot-three of sharp humor, dancer’s poise, and radioactive charm. A working actor and thyroid cancer survivor, Chelsea is the kind of guest who laughs while dropping truth bombs about what it means to be told you’re “lucky” to have the “good cancer.” We talk about turn…
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The Two-Step Process for Turning Difficult Patients into Raving Fans, with Doug Noll, JD | Ep494
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EP29 – From Conflict-Avoidant Introvert to Empowered Leader: Dr. Asha Padmanabhan’s Playbook for Women Physicians
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Physician Complacency: The Silent Career Killer (and How to Break Free) | Ep18
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What if your "good enough" life is quietly eroding your potential? In this episode of Better Physician Life, Dr. Michael Hersh explores complacency—the subtle numbness that sneaks in after success, making routines feel stale without crisis. Sharing personal stories, like his own "rinse and repeat" year and a client's guitar breakthrough, he challen…
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Teaching Kids About Money with Dr. Michele Cho Dorado | Ep50
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Most of us didn’t learn about money until adulthood — often by accident or after making mistakes we wish someone had warned us about. Dr. Michele Cho Dorado was no different. In fact, she was nearly a decade into attending hood before realizing she had no real financial education and wasn’t alone in that experience. This realization set off an iden…
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Understanding ROS1-positive Lung Cancer with Dr. Alice Shaw
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In this episode of Living With Lung Cancer: Ask Me Anything, host Annabelle Gurwitch sits down with Dr. Alice Shaw from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for an in-depth conversation about ROS1-positive lung cancer. Learn about this rare biomarker affecting only 1-2% of lung cancer patients, breakthrough targeted therapies, and how next-generation treat…
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A Clear Path to Promotion in Academic Medicine, with Joe Losee, MD, MBA | Ep493
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When Julia Stalder heard the words ductal carcinoma in situ, she was told she had the “best kind of breast cancer.” Which is like saying you got hit by the nicest bus. Julia’s a lawyer turned mediator who now runs DCIS Understood, a new nonprofit born out of her own diagnosis. Instead of panicking and letting the system chew her up, she asked quest…
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What if the best decision is to not decide at all? We waste valuable mental energy overthinking simple choices, especially when the outcomes are nearly identical. That kind of cognitive drain reduces our capacity to think clearly when decisions actually matter. In this episode, we explore how to reduce cognitive load, identify low-risk choices that…
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EP28 – Why Every Doctor Needs a Coach Even If You Think You Don’t
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The Scarcity Trap in Medicine: Why More Is Never Enough | Ep17
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What if the constant feeling of "not enough" is the real virus draining your life in medicine? In this reflective episode of Better Physician Life, Dr. Michael Hersh unpacks the scarcity mindset that permeates physicians' lives—from chasing RVUs and promotions to feeling there's never enough time for family or self-care. Drawing from personal stori…
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The Power of Empathy in Science Communication: Dr. Jess Steier, Founder of Unbiased Science
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“My most powerful content is when I lead with my voice as a mom because I have the same concerns about keeping my kids safe as my audience does. It’s a powerful and effective way to find common ground with people,” says Dr. Jess Steier, a popular public health scientist and science communicator seeking to bridge divides and foster trust through emp…
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Side Effects & Lung Cancer: What Patients Wish Doctors Knew
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Side effects can be painful, frustrating, and deeply misunderstood—especially when they’re invisible. In this episode, host Annabelle Gurwitch and advocate Colette Smith share candid stories about surgery recovery, TKI toxicity, anxiety, and the everyday challenges patients rarely talk about. Learn how to navigate tough conversations with doctors, …
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Dr. Rachel Gatlin entered neuroscience with curiosity and optimism. Then came chaos. She started her PhD at the University of Utah in March 2020—right as the world shut down. Her lab barely existed. Her advisor was on leave. Her project focused on isolation stress in mice, and then every human on earth became her control group. Rachel fought throug…
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Home for the Holidays: Checking in on Aging Parents
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In this episode, we sit down with Chandler Burckbuchler, Senior Division Manager and Marketing Manager for Terra Bella Senior Living, to discuss the critical warning signs families should watch for when visiting aging loved ones during the holidays. Chandler explains why the weeks following Thanksgiving and Christmas are traditionally the busiest t…
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Reenactments, Rants, and Really F*cked Up Insurance
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION Before she was raising millions to preserve fertility for cancer patients, Tracy Weiss was filming reenactments in her apartment for the Maury Povich Show using her grandmother’s china. Her origin story includes Jerry Springer, cervical cancer, and a full-body allergic reaction to bullshit. Now, she’s Executive Director of The C…
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How the Unfulfilled Physician Can Find Purpose Again, with Richard Boyatzis, PhD | Ep492
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What If You Took the Risk? Physician Entrepreneurship & Change with Dr. Jimmy Turner | Ep16
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What if embracing change could unlock a more fulfilling life in medicine? In this inspiring episode of Better Physician Life, host Dr. Michael Hersh welcomes Dr. Jimmy Turner, an academic anesthesiologist, certified coach, author of Determined: How Burned Out Doctors Can Thrive in a Broken Medical System, and co-host of the Money Meets Medicine pod…
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EP27 - Microaggressions in Medicine: The Triangle of Source, Recipient, and Bystander
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Leadership in Practice – Dr. Jeff Gaines’ Path to Culture Change | Ep49
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Burnout is often discussed like a clinical condition — something to solve, measure, or “fix.” But what if burnout is actually a signal? A message inviting us to pause, reset, and redesign the way we lead and care? In this deeply honest episode of Designing Healthcare That Cares, Dr. Laura Suttin and Dr. Jeff Gaines explore what it really takes to b…
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Amplifying Physician Voices Online: Dr. Kevin Pho, Founder of KevinMD
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“I realized that rather than talking one-to-one with patients in the exam room, you could talk one-to-many on social media,” says Dr. Kevin Pho, explaining the origins of KevinMD, the highly influential information sharing site he created for physicians, medical students and patients twenty years ago. Since then, KevinMD has become a valuable space…
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Financial Toxicity in Lung Cancer Care: How Patients Navigate the Hidden Costs
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How am I supposed to afford this? It's the question many lung cancer patients are afraid to ask out loud. In our premiere episode, host Annabelle Gurwitch tackles the financial toxicity of cancer care—the hidden costs beyond medical bills, insurance battles, medical debt, and where to find help when you can't afford treatment. Financial toxicity is…
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