Dr Paddy Barrett Podcast

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Dr Adam Gazzaley On How Taking The Road Less Travelled Matters Most Feb 28, 2016

Show notes

Dr Adam Gazzaley is Director of the Gazzaley Lab and Professor of Neuroscience, Physiology and Psychiatry at UCSF. His work as a cognitive researcher has reached international acclaim with publications in Nature, The New York Times, TIME, Discover, WIRED and has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors. He wrote and hosted the PBS documentary 'The Distracted Mind" and continues to do cutting edge research in the area of cognitive neuroscience with a particular interest in how gaming influences cognitive processes.

Having completed his MD PhD at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, research fellowships at UC Berkeley and now sits on the frontier of neuroscience cognitive gaming research, he has walked an incredibly unique path in medicine. This is an exciting conversation I have wanted to have for a long time and we touch on issues related to the gamification of medicine, meditation neuroscience and if there is a scientific basis to enlightenment.

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Selected Show Notes:

Dr Adam Gazzaley - The Gazzaley Lab

Come Wander - Adam Gazzaley Photography

PBS Special - "The Distracted Mind" with Dr Adam Gazzaley

Nature "Games to do good"

TEDxASB: Mumbai India "Closing The Loop Between The Brain and Education"

Ted Sonoma - Promise of Tech and the Brain

Twitter: @AdamGazz

Dr Brene Brown On Physician Courage & Vulnerability Feb 22, 2016

Show notes

Dr Brene Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work and is a world renowned expert in shame, guilt and vulnerability research. She is the author of 3 New York Times best sellers and her TEDx talk has been viewed almost 25 million times. She is also the Founder and CEO of The Daring Way and COURAGEworks.

This was a conversation I was looking forward to having for quite some time and I believe the issues we discuss are at the very core of physician unhappiness and how we navigate the challenges of being a physician today.

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Selected Show Notes:

Dr Brene Brown

The Gifts Of Imperfection by Brene Brown

Daring Greatly by Brene Brown

Rising Strong by Brene Brown

Twitter: @BreneBrown

Dr Paul Teirstein On Finding Fulfillment In Life & Work Feb 15, 2016

Show notes

Dr Paul Teirstein is Chief of Cardiology at the Scripps Green Hospital, La Jolla, California. He is a world renowned Interventional Cardiologist and was a pioneer in the early development of coronary stent technologies. He is the holder of 23 patents, all of which have been licensed. Last year, he was awarded one of the most prestigious awards in cardiology, being recipient of the Geoffrey Hartzler, Master Clinical Operator award. Beyond the world of medicine he is an immensely accomplished pilot and an avid salsa dancer.

This conversation is one of the most enlightening and heart felt conversations I have had and Dr Teirstein is one of those rare minds in medicine. His perspectives and insights are truly brilliant and I know that I will be listening to this conversation again and again.

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Selected Show Notes:

Dr Paul Teirstein - Chief of Cardiology, Scripps Green Hospital, CA

Dr Geoffrey Hartzler - Pioneering Cardiologist

Dr Geoffrey Hartzler - Master Clinical Operator Award - TCT 2015

National Board of Physicians and Surgeons (NBPAS)

NEJM Boarded To Death - Why Maintenance Of Certification Is Bad For Doctors and Patients

Dr Dike Drummond - Beating Burnout - Part 2 Feb 08, 2016

Show notes

Dr Dike Drummond is a Mayo trained Family Practice Physician who now specializes in physician burnout. The founder of TheHappyMD.com and author 'Stop Physician Burnout' he has come face to face with the realities of burnout as a physician on two separate occasions himself. He understands the complexities of physician burnout and how the one suffering burnout is often the last to know. Dr Drummond has coached thousands of physicians through the challenging times of burnout and speaks regularly across the globe to healthcare institutions in need of guidance on addressing this ever growing problem.

This is Part 2 of a two part series on burnout. Episode 1 focused on the causes and symptoms of burnout and this episode focuses on the strategies to address burnout at an individual and group level. This is truly an eye opening episode jam packed with strategies to beat burnout.

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Selected Show Notes:

TheHappyMD.com

Stop Physician Burnout by Dike Drummond

Burnout Prevention MATRIX by Dike Drummond

Twitter: @DikeDrummond

Dr Dike Drummond Deep Dives On Burnout - Part 1 Jan 31, 2016

Show notes

This episode is part 1 of a two part series. On this episode we deep dive into what burnout is, what its causes are and how it manifests. This episode will be followed up by Part 2 which will focus on the strategies to target burnout at an individual and organizational level.

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Selected Show Notes:

TheHappyMD.com

Stop Physician Burnout by Dike Drummond

Burnout Prevention MATRIX by Dike Drummond

Twitter: @DikeDrummond

Dr Este Geraghty on Personalizing Your Medical Career & Healthcare Data Visualization Jan 25, 2016

Show notes

Dr Este Geraghty is the Chief Medical Officer of Esri (Environmental Systems Research Institute) in Redlands, California. Having originally trained in Internal Medicine and working as an Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine at UC Davis her primary focus is now on how healthcare data visualization can change how we deliver healthcare in the modern world. This is an exciting conversation with topics ranging from how technology will guide the patient to the best car parking space to how recent infectious diseases crisis like the ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone and Liberia was managed.

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Selected Show Notes:

Dr Estella Geraghty

Esri - Health & Human Services

California HHS Open Data Portal

California Center for Health Statistics and Informatics

ESRI - Ebola Outbreaks 1976 - 2015

ESRI Story Maps

'The Hot Spotters' the New Yorker by Atul Gawande

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic by Steven Johnson

Tracking Medicine: A Researchers Quest to Understand Health Care by John Wennberg

The Emperor Of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

GIS Tutorial for Health by Kristen Aurland and Wilpen Gorr

Twitter: @EsteGeraghty

Dr Bruce Johnson On Research On Everest & Antarctica Jan 18, 2016

Show notes

Dr Bruce Johnson is an extreme physiology researcher at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota whose real laboratories are the extreme environments the world has to offer. He has conducted high altitude physiology research with climbers on Aconcagua in Argentina and free divers in Croatia. He has also conducted high altitude research over two seasons in Antarctica. Recently, as part of a NorthFace and National Geographic expedition to Everest he conducted extreme physiology research with the world renowned climber, Conrad Anker.

This conversation explores the details of how to integrate the passions you may have outside of your conventional career and use them as an opportunity to do truly exciting things. Dr Johnson's work is an exploration of the extreme physiology of the abnormal in normal environments and the normal in the most abnormal environments.

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Selected Show Notes:

Dr Bruce Johnson - The Mayo Clinic

The North Face: Everest Research Expedition

National Geographic - 'The Call of Everest'

Dr Ronan Kavanagh On Embracing Creative Interests In Medicine Jan 10, 2016

Show notes

Dr Ronan Kavanagh is a practicing rheumatologist in Galway, Ireland and is the co-founder of the dotMED Conference which embraces all that is creative in medicine. In addition to his full time practice Dr Kavanagh is a regular medical blogger and has been one of the leading physicians on social media for many years. Dr Kavanagh is a medical columnist with The Medical Independent, is a consultant to several med tech startups and is also the chairman of the Macnas Theatre Company.

This discussion takes us through all the challenges that surface during a career in medicine and how embracing a more diverse range of interests can be the thing that adds balance to a busy life as a clinician.

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Selected Show Notes:

Dr Ronan Kavanagh

The Musicians Clinic

dotMED The Creative Medical Conference

The Medical Independent - Dr Ronan Kavanagh Column

Macnas Theatre Company

How Twitter Cured My Mid-Life Crisis by Ronan Kavanagh

VidScrip

Atul Gawande - Personal Best (On Having A Coach)

The Bad Doctor: The Troubled Life and Times of Dr. Iwan James by Ian Williams

A Fortunate Man by John Berger

Twitter: @RonanTKavanagh

Dr Dike Drummond - Burnout Exercises Jan 06, 2016

Show notes

Here are two quick exercises by Dr Dike Drummond, the physician burnout expert, that anyone struggling in healthcare should try. The first helps greatly in providing insight into burnout, the second is an emergency reset button when things get challenging. Enjoy!

Dr Dike Drummond on Physician Burnout & How To Deal With It Jan 03, 2016

Show notes

In this episode we discuss how burnout manifests in physicians, how men and women differ in their display of symptoms and most importantly we discuss the steps to addressing burnout. This discussion was one of the most eye opening conversations on burnout I have had and explained so much of why we feel the way we do in times of stress.

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Selected Show Notes:

TheHappyMD.com

Stop Physician Burnout by Dike Drummond

Burnout Prevention MATRIX by Dike Drummond

Twitter: @DikeDrummond