Postcall Podcast

Latest Episodes:

Schedule problems: helping your family, friends to get it, Ilana Yurkiewicz, MD May 31, 2019

Show notes

Nick and Emi Okamoto, MD, take the weekly quiz, Dr. Emi gives advice for talking to your friends and family about your crazy schedule, and can you tell if it's advice for residents or advice for newlyweds?

Time stamps:

MDedge Quiz (02:09)
Advice Game: Newlyweds or Residents? (06:45)
This week in MedTwitter (09:46)
- How to participate in holidays when you're working/can't make it (10:58)
- "I feel, I think, I want," educating your family (11:55)
Health equity (13:33)
Interview Intro (15:27)
Interview with Ilana Yurkiewicz, MD. 18:15)
- Meet Dr. Yurkiewicz: family, hobbies, etc. (31:06)
- What Dr. Yurkiewicz reads, Ted Cheng - Story of Your Life, Arrival (33:35)
- Best advice for residency/internship: (36:53)
- Worst advice for residency/internship (39:28)
- Dr. Yurkiewicz on the future of Hem/Onc.
Credits (46:16)
Blood & Cancer Clinical Correlation (47:07)

Show Notes:

MDedge Weekly quiz source articles:

You can take this or more MDedge Quizzes by clicking this link.

Tweet of the week: "The most frustrating thing about being a nurse (or in the medical field period) is the complete lack of understanding or empathy for our schedules by some." -- Ari BSN, RN @ArianaMasGrande

Dr. Okamoto's strategy is "I think, I feel, I want"

More on this strategy here.

Health Equity

Emi's passion for healthcare for all humans. Read more about health equity here.

Interview Intro:

This week's guest is Ilana Yurkiewicz, MD, a hem/onc fellow at Stanford. She writes the Hard Qeustions Columng for MDedge Hematology/Oncology and writes/records/produces the Clinical Correlation segment of Blood & Cancer, the official podcast of MDedge Hematology/Oncology.

Dr. Yurkiewicz's 's articles:

Doctor will you please lie to me?

Should doctors disclose primary results?

A complete list of Dr. Yurkiewicz's column, Hard Questions is available here, and you can check out Blood & Cancer here.

Links from the interview:

Advice for interns/residents, and "Better Words for Better Deaths" May 24, 2019

Show notes

Emi takes the MDedge weekly quiz, she gives some advice for all the new interns out there, Nick suggests movies that could help interns and residents identify with the struggle, and Nick and Emi discuss the commentary "Better Words for Better Deaths" by this week's guest, Anna DeForest, MD.

Show Outline:

MDedge Quiz
Emi answers questions from the #SoMeDocs Twitter chat.
Nick's intern survival movie list:
1. Miracle
2. Whiplash
3. Somm
Nick and Emi discuss "Better Words for Better Deaths".

Interview:

Interview with Anna DeForest, MD about her work in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Reasons to Live (Short stories by Amy Hempel).
Terror Management Theory

You can contact the show by emailing us at podcasts@mdedge.com and you can interact with Nick on Twitter @tribnic.

Introducing our new co-host, Emi Okamoto, MD May 17, 2019

Show notes

Welcome the new cohost of the MDedge Postcall Podcast, Emi Okamoto, MD.

In this episode, Dr. Okamoto and Nick take the MDedge Weekly Quiz, dive into the 2019 annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, and get to know Dr. Okamoto, or Emi, as she prefers.

Emi talks about what she does to unwind after a long day, what advice she'd give trainees as a new attending, and more.

You can email Emi and Nick at podcasts@mdedge.com, and you can follow Nick on Twitter at @Tribnic

Time Stamps:

MDedge Weekly Quiz (02:00)
Cool Stuff: American Academy of Neurology (5:50)
Interview with Emi Okamoto, MD (12:50)

Links from the show:

Improving physician practices: Doron Schneider May 10, 2019

Show notes

Doron Schneider, MD, joins Nick from the 2019 annual internal medicine meeting of the American College of Physicians to talk about a precourse he led on improving practice efficiency.

Dr. Schneider is with Abbington Hospital which is now a part of the Jefferson Health Family of Thomas Jefferson University and the Sidney Kimmel Medical College.

He told Nick about what bringing in a coach can do for your practice, and who it's important to collaborate.

Remember, you can contact the show with feedback, questions, ideas, and shoutouts for your friends, family or colleagues by emailing us at podcasts@mddge.com.

You can follow Nick on Twitter @tribnic, if you tweet at him with #PostcallPodcast, you may have your thoughts read on a future episode.

Beating Burnout Together: From IM2019 May 03, 2019

Show notes

Eileen Barrett, MD, wants to help doctors beat burnout.

After her pre-course at Internal Medicine 2019, the annual meeting of the American College of Physicians, in Philadelphia, Dr. Barrett spoke with Postcall host Nick Andrews about the real problem of physician burnout and how it exacerbates other underlying issues. She uses a famous quote from Anna Karenina to illustrate the issue as she sees it (07:02).

She also tells an anecdote about how a passing comment in her hospital turned into a new protocol for administering vaccines. She discusses how this simple interaction increased her gratitude for her non-physician colleagues and exemplifies how clinicians, administrators, and non-clinical professionals can come together to improve outcomes, "help the bottom line," and solve a logistical issue (11:45).

podcasts@mdedge.com

@MDedgeTweets

This week in MDedge:

Psychcast Ep 57: Physician Burnout Blood & Cancer Ep 14: CAR T-Cell Therapy Dermatology Weekly Ep 08: Are parabens safe?

Women in leadership: IM2019 Apr 26, 2019

Show notes

Nick talks to Fariah Shafi, MD about women in medical leadership now and moving forward.

RVU medicine and physician loneliness Apr 19, 2019

Show notes

In episode 25, Richard Wenzel, MD, joins nick to talk about his article in the New England Journal of Medicine on RVU medicine and physician loneliness

Nick would love to hear from you with your suggestions, ideas, feedback, or questions. You can email the show at podcasts@mdedge.com and you can follow him on Twitter at @Tribnic.

You can read Dr. Wenzel's article here.

ICYMI: Samuel Shem, House of God: Part II Apr 13, 2019

Show notes

In this episode, Nick continues his conversation with Samuel Shem.

ICYMI: Samuel Shem: The House of God Apr 05, 2019

Show notes

Doctor Stephen Bergman now goes by Samuel Shem and lives outside Boston, but in the 1970s, he published arguably one of the most impactful books on medicine in recent memory -- the cult classic, the House of God Newsweek named the House of God the second best satirical piece of fiction of all time behind Don Quixote. In this conversation, Shem tells me about his motivation for the House of God and reveals that there will be a sequel in 2019 on the current state of medicine.

Art & Medicine: Colleen Farrell, MD - Part II Mar 29, 2019

Show notes

Colleen Farrell, MD, is back for part II of her conversation with Nick on her Medical Humanities Twitter chat group.

You can contact the show by emailing podcasts@mdedge.com or on Twitter @MDedgeTweets. You can follow Nick on Twitter @tribnic, and Dr. Farrell @colleenmfarrell.

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected