Dr Paddy Barrett Podcast

Latest Episodes:

Dr Paddy Barrett - Relaunching The Podcast May 24, 2021

Show notes

Welcome back everyone!

After much deliberation I have decided to relaunch the podcast. I had originally intended to do so about 18 months ago but found that I did not want to limit the conversation to clinician burnout alone.

The podcast is now called the 'Dr Paddy Barrett Podcast' and will be an exploration of topics much closer to home from a professional perspective as a preventive cardiologist.

For me, health is about optimizing 3 parts. Lifespan, health span and soul span.

The length of your life. The Quality of your life. Your sense of meaning and purpose.

The first two are largely where I have spent my professional scientific life and the later, soul span, is much more aligned with what I learned during my explorations of clinician burnout and relates more to psychology, philosophy etc.

This is just a quick 5 minute explainer.

I hope to release new episodes in the coming months.

Paddy Barrett

Surf Doctor - Dr Peter Acker On Global Emergency Care & Surf Medicine Sep 26, 2016

Show notes

Dr Peter Acker is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine. In addition to his work in the ER, he is an active member of the Stanford Emergency Medicine International Team whose work it is to assist in the provision of emergency medical care around the world. Dr Acker is also a key member of the organization, 'Surfing Doctors' and gets to combine his love of surfing with his passion for medicine.

The topic of surf medicine has been requested multiple times by listeners. So finally, here it is.

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Selected Show Notes:

Dr Peter Acker

Stanford Emergency Medicine International Team

Surfing Doctors

'Checklist Manifesto' by Atul Gawande

Email: peteacker@gmail.com

Alternative Careers In Medicine - Dr Abeyna Jones of Medic Footprints Sep 19, 2016

Show notes

Dr Abeyna Jones is an Occupational Medicine Registrar in London and is also the founder of Medic Footprints, a site dedicated to physician wellness and alternative careers in medicine. Dr Jones has travelled the world with her medical training and even spent time as a trauma surgeon in Africa in not exactly ideal conditions but garnered more satisfaction from that experience than her conventional surgical training in the UK at that time.

This is a fantastic conversation about the challenges of stepping outside the conventional frameworks of traditional medical practice and carving a path less travelled. Even if you have never considered an alternative career in medicine, this is a worthwhile discussion about why we choose what we do and where we derive satisfaction from our careers.

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Selected Show Notes:

Dr Abeyna Jones

Medic Footprints

Med Net

Twitter: @DrAbeynaJones

Rehumanizing Healthcare - Dr Robin Youngson of 'Hearts In Healthcare' Sep 12, 2016

Show notes

Dr Robin Youngson is a practicing anesthesiologist and international advocate for promoting compassion in healthcare. Dr Youngson has worked for many years on developing the concepts of rehumanizing healthcare at a clinical and leadership level. In addition to being the CoFounder of 'Hearts in Healthcare', a global social movement for physicians, he is also the author of several books, his most recent being the highly acclaimed 'Time To Care: How to love your patients and your job'.

This is a fantastic conversation on how we desperately need to bring humanity back to medicine and how we might go about doing so.

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Selected Show Notes:

Dr Robin Youngson

Compassionate Happiness Inventory

Dr Pamela Wible - Ideal Medical Care

Hearts In Healthcare

The lost art of healing: Practicing Compassion in Medicine by Dr Bernard Lown

'Time to Care' by Dr Robin Youngson

Twitter: @HeartsInHealth

The Dangers Of Sleep Deprivation - Prof Russell Foster, Oxford UK. Sep 05, 2016

Show notes

Prof Russell Foster is a circadian neuroscientist and heads the Circadian Neuroscience Institute at the University of Oxford, UK. He has spent his career exploring the issues of sleep, from why we sleep to what its relationship is with mood disorders and abnormal cognitive behavior.

This is a conversation I have wanted to have for quite some time and a topic I wanted to include on the show as sleep, or more accurately, its absence is an ever present concern for most physicians.

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Selected Show Notes:

Prof Russell Foster - Circadian Neuroscientist

TED Talk - 'Why We Sleep'

Selected Publications - Prof Foster

The Oxford Online Program in Sleep Medicine - Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience

Twitter: @OxNeuro

The Inevitability Of Physician Burnout - Dr Anthony Montgomery, Organizational Psychologist Aug 29, 2016

Show notes

Dr Anthony Montgomery is an organizational psychologist and an internationally recognized expert on burnout. Currently he is an Associate Professor of Work & Organizational Psychology at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. He has studied the individual and organizational elements of burnout for many years and his findings are fascinating.

I came across Dr Montgomery's work after reading an article he wrote entitled 'The Inevitability of Physician Burnout'. This is an enlightening conversation as to why we need to refocus the issue of burnout from the individual level to the ecosystem level.

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Selected Show Notes:

Dr Anthony Montgomery

'The inevitability of physician burnout' by Dr Anthony Montgomery

Well Med Conference

'Mindset' by Carol Dweck

Areas Of Work Life Survey

Physicians As Agents For Change - Dr Stephen Beeson of Practicing Excellence Aug 21, 2016

Show notes

Dr Stephen Beeson is the founder of the Physician Effective Project at Practicing Excellence and a nationally recognized leader in physician and healthcare performance. Dr Beeson is a family medicine physician of 20 years and played a pivotal role in transforming the Sharp Rees-Stealy Healthcare group from a lowest tertile group to the highest, over several years. He is the author of 2 national best selling books on physician performance: Practicing Excellence and The Engaging Physician.

This episode is a fantastic conversation with someone who is deeply committed to improving the lives of physicians and transforming the world of healthcare today. I know that I will be coming back to this conversation again and again.

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Selected Show Notes:

Dr Stephen Beeson

Practicing Excellence

'Practicing Excellence' by Dr Stephen Beeson

'The Engaging Physician' by Dr Stephen Beeson

Twitter: @SBeesonMD

Email: stephen@practicingexcellence.com

Life As An Antarctic Physician - Dr Gavin Francis, Scottish Physician & Writer Aug 15, 2016

Show notes

Dr Gavin Francis is a Scottish physician and award winning writer. He has practiced medicine across the globe from Africa, India, Greenland, the Arctic and Antartica. After a rigorous selection process he was chosen to be the sole physician for a 15 month period on the Halley Research station in Antartica. The Halley Research station is said to be harder evacuate a casualty in winter than the International Space Station.

This is a fantastic conversation with a physician who has used the platform of medicine to do a spectacular range of activities across the world. We get into what the section process is like, what life is like acting totally unsupported as a physician and what 3 months of darkness feels like.

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Selected Show Notes:

Dr Gavin Francis

Empire Antartica by Dr Gavin Francis

British Antarctic Survey

Halley Research Station - Selected Images

Twitter: @GavinFranc

Inside The Mind Of Burnout - Psychoanalyst Prof Josh Cohen Aug 08, 2016

Show notes

Prof Josh Cohen is a psychoanalyst and Professor of Modern Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. Prof Cohen is the author of a recent article featured in The Economist entitled 'When Minds Turned To Ash' which explores the societal issue of burnout and why its possibly not a matter of working too hard.

This is a fantastic conversation with an incredibly insightful mind on the topic of burnout. I certainly learned an immense amount from this discussion and I would highly recommend this episode for anyone looking to get some insight on the causes and strategies to address burnout.

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Selected Show Notes:

Prof Josh Cohen

Minds Turned To Ash - The Economist

'A Burnt Out Case' by Graham Greene

Prof Josh Cohen - Selected Publications

'The Private Life: Why Remain In The Dark' by Prof Josh Cohen

Walden: A Life In The Woods by Henry David Thoreau

Playing and Reality by Donald Winnicott

When A Helicopter Is Your Emergency Room - Dr Mike Abernethy - Flight Physician Jul 31, 2016

Show notes

Dr Mike Abernethy is full time Flight Physician and Clinical Professor at the University of Wisconsin. Having completed Medical School at the University of Cincinnati and Residency at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics. Dr Abernethy has been a practicing Flight Physician for 25 years and is an internationally recognized speaker on the topic.

This is a great conversation blending the topics of medicine and aviation. We get into the details of what it takes to be a flight physician and how to get there.

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Selected Show Notes:

Dr Mike Abernethy

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter Brown

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Twitter: @FLTDOC1