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#22 Hepatologist and Dean of Medical School Interview - Lifestyle, Education, and Fires Sep 25, 2023

Show notes

Dr. Steven Herrine is the chair of medical education and professor of medicine here at SKMC at Jefferson and a practicing hepatologist and gastroenterologist. He grew up in NYC and studied math and history at Oberlin College, after which he spent a few years as a chef, and then went to Jefferson medical school, Penn, for IM residency and Jefferson for GI/hepatology, where he has stayed since. He has won multiple awards for teaching, including IM residency teacher of the year, which makes sense because he now runs medical education as the chair here at SKMC. This is a scary interview for me because if I say anything bad, Dr. Herrine can of course, kick me right out of medical school with only a couple months left.

Sep 25th

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0:00 - Intro

1:17 - From Being a Chef to Doing Medicine

5:39 - What Is Hepatology?

6:12 - Why Hepatology?

9:50 - What Was Fellowship Like?

10:48 - Choosing the Kind of Practice That You Want to Do

17:46 - Best Thing About Being a Hepatologist

20:29 - Worst Thing About Being a Hepatologist

22:07 - How to Get Into Dean/Chair Positions?

24:23 - An Average Week/Day Balancing Clinic and Dean Position

27:39 - Most Surprising/Unexpected Thing About Being a Dean

29:50 - Formalities and Processes for Changing Med School Curriculum

32:03 - Main Factors in Change

33:00 - LCME Guidelines on Curriculum

35:06 - Being the Dean of Medical Education

37:21 - Lessons Learned After Being in Medical Education for 20+ Years

39:52 - Social Science & Medicine

43:48 - Deciding on Online and On-Site Classes

47:28 - Medical Education Changing Over the Years

49:57 - Differences Between Successful and Unsuccessful Students

53:25 - Medical Education During COVID-19

57:56 - Future of Your Career

59:32 - If I Give You $100 Million, What Would You Do?

1:00:57 - Advice to People Entering Medicine

1:02:36 - What Advice Would You Give Your Med Student Self?

1:03:30 - Any Mistakes That You Made Throughout Your Career?

1:05:14 - Book Recommendations

1:08:28 - Closing Message for People Looking Into Hepatology

1:08:52 - Closing Message for People Going Into Medicine

1:10:03 - Tips for Making Great Graphics for Teaching

1:11:05 - Giving a Good Experience for Students at SKMC&Jefferson

1:13:55 - Closing Message

1:15:13 - Outro

Resources

Being There by Jerzy Kosinski: https://a.co/d/3a8BVrZ

Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose: https://a.co/d/cS4QFdF

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Welcome to the Zach Highley Show, where we discuss personal growth and medicine to figure out how to improve our lives. My name is Zach a Resident Physician in Boston. Throughout these episodes I’ll interview top performers from around the world in business, life, and medicine in hopes of extracting the resources and techniques they use to get to the top.

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#20 Prison Doctor Interview - Lifestyle, Leadership, and Crazy Pathology Aug 28, 2023

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Dr. Lalitha Trivikram is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician who graduated from Penn State College of Medicine and completed her post-graduate training at the University of Michigan and New York Hospital - Cornell. She has over 20 years of experience in outpatient, inpatient, and congregate care settings, including skilled nursing, acute rehabilitation, and correctional facilities. Currently, she serves as a medical director in the Philadelphia Department of Prisons, the jail for the City of Philadelphia, which has a daily census of around 4,500 citizens and a patient population numbering nearly 18,000 individuals annually. In the spring of 2020, she stepped into public health when asked to be the lead physician in the COVID-19 response at the PDP. Under her leadership, the mortality rate from Covid has been one-tenth that of other regional jurisdictions. She is a family friend, and I had the luxury of shadowing her as an undergrad. Lalitha is a stunningly good diagnostician and a fantastic person all around.

Aug 28th

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0:00 - Intro

1:21 - Statistics About Internal Medicine

2:49 - Why is Internal Medicine?

3:41 - Why Internal Medicine?

10:32 - What was IM Residency Like?

15:05 - Differences in the Residency years

17:07 - inpatient vs outpatient

20:16 - Working as the Medical Director in the Philadelphia Jail

23:54 - An Average Day as the Medical Director

26:25 - Difference diseases/injuries found in a jail setting

32:41 - If I Give You $100 Million, What Would You Do?

34:14 - Memorable Experiences at the prison

38:37 - Thoughts about working in a prison

39:57 - prison life during COVID-19

50:06 - Best Thing About Internal Medicine

51:01 - Worst Thing About Internal Medicine

52:12 - Burning out

54:01 -Choosing between the clinic and industry

55:55 - Common myth about IM doctors

57:57 - What makes the best IM student?

1:04:40 - Characteristics of an IM student

1:05:36 - Advice to students looking into a specialty

1:06:44 - Future of Internal Medicine

1:12:31 - Any Mistakes That You Made Throughout Your Career?

1:16:16 - Closing Message

1:17:35 - Outro

Resources

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Welcome to the Zach Highley Show, where we discuss personal growth and medicine to figure out how to improve our lives. My name is Zach a Resident Physician in Boston. Throughout these episodes, I’ll interview top performers from around the world in business, life, and medicine in hopes of extracting the resources and techniques they use to get to the top.

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#19 - 101 Pieces of Advice for A Better Life Aug 14, 2023

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Here are 101 pieces of advice to myself for a better life.

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00:24 - #1. Create don’t consume

00:53 - #2. Ask for help

1:02 - #3. Surround yourself with people who excite you

1:22 - #4. Remove people from your life that drain you

1:25 - #5. Avoid lukewarm romantic relationships

1:36 - #6. Be in nature

1:49 - #7. Meditate

2:09 - #8. Have long dinners with your family

2:31 - #9. The squeaky wheel gets the oil

2:40 - #10. Take the blame and give the credit

2:46 - #11. Focus on a single task

2:58 - #12. Do a difficult task every day

3:04 - #13. Allocate 2-3 hours of uninterrupted time to personal projects

3:30 - #14. Purchase things that eliminate negatives

3:40 - #15. Put yourself in other people's shoes

4:16 - #16. Ask, "What is the incentive?"

4:45 - #17. Maintain important relationships

5:17 - #18. Think if your actions are emotional or logical

5:45 - #19. Everything can be learned

5:49 - #20. Everything can be forgotten

6:10 - #21. Everyone will die

6:14 - #22. Everyone is focused 99.99% on themselves

6:52 - #23. Everyone wants to feel important

7:16 - #24. Everyone wants to be happy

7:20 - #25. Every semi-pro wants to guide a beginner

7:45 - #26. Switch up your gym routine

8:00 - #27. Realize the difference between bad and good pains

8:29 - #28. Find the time you work best and utilize it!

9:00 - #29. If you wouldn’t replace it, throw it away

9:23 - #30. Do not be afraid to confront haters

9:52 - #31. Remember your roots

9:58 - #32. Go first!

10:09 - #33. Connect with everyone you meet

10:34 - #34. Lean in

10:57 - #35. Make your own rules and stick to them

11:34 - #36. Just start!

11:38 - #37. Apologize quickly and sincerely

11:51 - #38. Don’t let your core products expire

12:15 - #39. Stay publicly a-political

12:32 - #40. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results

13:05 - #41. Act like your hero

13:30 - #42. Don’t wallow in sadness

13:58 - #43. People undervalue execution and overvalue ideas

14:28 - #44. Be humble

14:38 - #45. Be real

15:19 - #46. Sharing happiness doesn't dilute it, it concentrates it

15:40 - #47. Side projects and hobbies will change your life

15:55 - #48. Never complain

16:01 - #49. Use the 80/20 rule

16:51 - #50-84

30:43 - #85. Stop listening to junk

31:03 - #86. If your backups fail, it is your fault

31:45 - #87. Put on a show, tell a story

32:48 - #88. Do one thing every day you don't want to do

33:05 - #89. Don't hire mercenaries; inspire soldiers

33:14 - #90. Your appearance matters

33:34 - #91. Always make deadlines

33:57 - #92. If you are not sleeping 6 1/2 hours, you are not sleeping

34:03 - #93. Keep your sleep optimal

34:22 - #94. Wake up and go to bed at the same time

34:27 - #95. Call customer service

34:29 - #96. Always exercise

34:34 - #97. No one likes a know-it-all

34:43 - #98. Stop complaining about your New York strip steak

34:54 - #99. The top 1% of the business runs off connections

35:01 - #100. Get 1% better every day

35:17 - #101. Everything passes

Resources

Wait But Why - https://waitbutwhy.com/

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Welcome to the Zach Highley Show, where we discuss personal growth and medicine to figure out how to improve our lives. My name is Zach a Resident Physician in Boston. Throughout these episodes, I’ll interview top performers from around the world in business, life, and medicine in hopes of extracting the resources and techniques they use to get to the top.

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#18 Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident Interview - Lifestyle, Competition, and Entrepreneurship Jul 31, 2023

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Jason Han was Born and raised in South Korea until age 10. Came here with his family and attended Columbia University and Perelman School of Medicine, where he was the student body president. I'm currently a cardiac surgery resident at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the vice president of the TSRA, which is our national governing body. I'm broadly interested in communication, education, and leadership, especially concerning our patients and staff. I've written a column for the Philadelphia Inquirer for seven years and have written essays for the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of American College of Cardiology, and more.

July 31st

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0:00 - Intro

0:41 - Statistics About Cardiothoracic Surgery

9:03 - Managing Things Other Than Medicine

16:10 - Choosing Medicine

19:23 - What Is Cardiothoracic Surgery?

29:37 - CT Residency

33:21 - Working Hours

34:44 - Tips/Tricks to Maximize Competitiveness

40:14 - Getting Feedback From Attendings

41:24 - Symptoms of Burnout and Maintaining Happiness

46:45 - Family

47:25 - Being an Immigrant in America

52:49 - Best Thing About Cardiothoracic Surgery

54:42 - Worst Thing About Cardiothoracic Surgery

56:25 - If I Give You $100 Million, What Would You Do?

58:28 - Projects to Educate People About Surgery

1:08:19 - General Advice for People Picking Careers in Medicine

1:11:51 - Any Advice for Your Younger Self?

1:13:11 - Advice for Med Students Looking Into CT

1:17:00 - Things to Look For While Choosing a Program

1:24:42 - Characteristics of a Student for Cardiothoracic Surgery

1:28:54 - Future Career Plans

1:32:49 - Super Important Question!!!

1:35:36 - Closing Message

1:37:47 - Outro

Resources

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Welcome to the Zach Highley Show, where we discuss personal growth and medicine to figure out how to improve our lives. My name is Zach a Resident Physician in Boston. Throughout these episodes, I’ll interview top performers from around the world in business, life, and medicine in hopes of extracting the resources and techniques they use to get to the top.

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#17: An Interview with a Pediatrician Jul 17, 2023

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Dr. Harkness is a Pediatrician at Nemours in Paoli. Originally from Philadelphia, and has been a hospital pediatrician in the past. He went to medical school at University of Pittsburgh and trained in Pediatric at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has been with my his practice for the last 31 years treating pediatric patients in the outpatient setting. Dr. Harkness was actually my pediatrician as well, and, amazingly, I had the opportunity to work under him in a 3rd year rotation last year. I’ve had experiences with many Pediatrician’s in the past and he is easily one of the best. Dr. Harkness has an amazing way of making the children and parents feel comfortable, while, of course, being an amazingly skilled diagnostician. Welcome Dr. Harkness.

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0:00 - Intro

0:57 - Statistics About Pediatrics

3:33 - Pediatricians and Stickers

5:16 - What Is Pediatrics?

6:01 - Why Pediatrics?

9:52 - What Was Pediatrics Residency Like?

16:02 - Practicing After Residency

21:26 - Being Happy as an Outpatient Pediatrician

28:51 - Average Day of a Pediatrician

29:35 - How Did COVID Change Your Practice?

32:57 - If I Give You $100 Million, What Would You Do?

36:50 - Best Thing About Being a Pediatrician

38:14 - Worst Thing About Being a Pediatrician

41:15 - Things You Wish You Knew Before Coming Into Pediatrics

44:50 - Sneaky Tips and Tricks With Kids

51:26 - Characteristics of a Student for Pediatrics

54:13 - General Advice for People Picking Careers in Medicine

58:31 - Any Mistakes That You Made Throughout Your Career/Life?

58:59 - Common Mistakes

59:53 - Positive Qualities & Characteristics

1:03:04 - Advice for Students Looking Into Pediatrics

1:04:24 - Very Important Question!

1:06:39 - Closing Message

1:09:30 - Outro

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Resources

Co-parenting Through Separation and Divorce: Putting Your Children First by David L. Hill and Jann Blackstone - https://a.co/d/5skU6ZV

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Welcome to the Zach Highley Show, where we discuss personal growth and medicine to figure out how to improve our lives. My name is Zach and I’m a medical student, and soon to be physician, in Philadelphia. Throughout these episodes I’ll interview top performers from around the world in business, life, and medicine in hopes of extracting the resources and techniques they use to get to the top.

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#16: An Interview with a Urology Resident Jul 03, 2023

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Halle grew up in Minneapolis, MN and went to undergrad at St. Olaf College, a small liberal arts school about an hour south of the Twin Cities. She went to Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI and ultimately matched out in Philadelphia at TJUH for my urology residency. She graduated summa cum laude from St. Olaf and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. In medical school she was in AOA. She studied abroad twice in undergrad and recently went on a pediatric urology medical mission trip to Amman, Jordan.

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0:00 - Intro

0:42 - Statistics About Urology

3:23 - Residency Trip to Amman, Jordan

7:58 - Why Urology?

15:10 - What Was Urology Residency Like?

21:53 - If I Give You $100 Million, What Would You Do?

23:28 - Best Things About Urology

26:29 - Worst Things About Urology

28:56 - Good and Bad Consults

30:30 - Things You Wish You Knew Before Coming Into Urology

31:19 - Common Myths About Urology

31:57 - Memorable Patient Encounters

34:36 - Advice for Students Looking Into Urology

37:28 - Maximizing Competitiveness Going Into Urology

40:32 - Were You Ever Burned Out?

42:53 - Advice to People to Have a Successful/Long-Term Career

46:11 - What Advice Would You Give Your 18-Year-Old Self?

46:53 - Common Mistakes Made by Attendings

48:38 - Positive Qualities & Characteristics Seen in Attendings

49:40 - Favorite Book Recommendation

51:23 - Closing Message

53:59 - Outro

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Resources

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee - https://amzn.eu/d/5llEmiM

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#15: Alternative Careers in Medicine - Pharmaceuticals and Venture Capitalism Jun 19, 2023

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Today I have the privilege of sitting down with my Dad, Ivan Gergel, again. My dad was born and raised in London where he went to medical school and became a psychiatrist. He then joined the pharmaceutical company GSK in developing new antidepressant drugs, famously some of the SSRIs we all are of course aware of today. This job took him to the US where he started our family with my Mom. Dad was responsible for the running of hundreds of clinical trials, directed R&D for various pharmaceutical companies, and personally led the development and approval of 14 new therapies such as Lexapro, Paxil, and Namenda that have had fantastic impacts on patient’s lives. He currently is working in healthcare investing with new startup drug and device companies. Today, we will be discussing alternative careers in medicine, specifically because my Dad only practiced medicine for two years before switching over to Industry.

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0:00 - Intro

0:54 - Going Into Medicine

5:37 - Specializing in Psychiatry

8:58 - Why Leave Medicine?

13:36 - Disliked Aspects of Clinical Medicine

15:55 - Transitioning From Medicine and Second Thoughts

23:54 - First Job in the Industry

29:52 - Why Go Into Pharma?

31:18 - Career Rundown in Pharma

34:08 - Key Factors in Changing Careers

35:52 - Leadership Lessons Learned by Leading 900 People

42:51 - Advice for People to Navigate the Corporate World

48:54 - Top 3 Important Decisions in Your Life?

51:27 - Considering Other Careers

53:56 - Why Change Into VC Now?

58:35 - Advice to a High School Student

1:00:52 - Common Bad Advice High School Students Receive

1:04:16 - Are MBA’s and Ph.D’s Any Useful?

1:07:57 - Characteristics of Someone Who Would Do Well in Corporations

1:11:26 - What Do You Look For in a Person While Hiring Them?

1:14:08 - Any New Life-Changing Habits in the Last 5 Years?

1:16:15 - Closing Message

1:18:00 - Outro

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#14: An Interview With a World-Renown Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgeon and Chair of Surgery - Charles Yeo Jun 05, 2023

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Charles J. Yeo is a hepatopancreaticobiliary surgeon here at Jefferson. He was born in East Orange, New Jersey, and attended Spring Valley Senior High School in Spring Valley, New York. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1975, summa cum laude with an A.B. in Biochemistry. Dr. Yeo graduated in 1979 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, being awarded the Upjohn Achievement Award and he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha and Phi Beta Kappa. While completing his internship and residency in General Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, he pursued a one year Research Fellowship at the S.U.N.Y. Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Dr. Yeo joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University as an Instructor and Assistant Chief of Service in the Department of Surgery in 1985, and rose to the rank of Professor of Surgery in 1996. In 1997, he became a Professor in the Department of Oncology. Dr. Yeo directed the Pancreatic Cancer Interdisciplinary Working Group at Johns Hopkins, and served as the Surgical Clerkship Coordinator and Surgical Curriculum Consultant. In 2002, Dr. Yeo was named to an endowed chair at Johns Hopkins, becoming the inaugural John L. Cameron M.D. Professor for Alimentary Tract Diseases. On October 1, 2005 Dr. Yeo was named the 8th Samuel D. Gross Professor and he assumed the chairmanship of the Department of Surgery at Jefferson (now Sidney Kimmel) Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, and as the Senior Vice President and Chair of Enterprise Surgery for Jefferson Health (an 18 hospital system). Dr. Yeo has authored over 500 peer reviewed scientific papers, 105 book chapters, and over 15 books or monographs. Dr. Yeo is also known as the “Whipple King” having completed over 1700 Whipple procedures and treated 2100 patients with pancreatic and related cancers. Thank you so much Dr. Yeo for taking the time to speak with me.

All proceeds from this episode go to Friends Against Pancreatic Cancer Fund and the Drs. Francis and Ernest Rosato Fund for Surgical Education and Research.

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0:00 - Intro

2:22 - What Is Hepato Pancreato Biliary Surgery?

3:00 - Whipple Procedure

9:13 - Treating Pancreatic Cancer

14:15 - How Did You Become the Whipple King?

17:14 - Navigating and Choosing Surgery in Med School

25:57 - Residency

32:41 - Memorable Experiences While at John Hopkins

37:11 - Going Into Hepato Pancreato Biliary Surgery

51:44 - An Average Day/Week as a Chair of Surgery

56:40 - Best Thing About Being an HPB Surgeon

58:52 - Worst Thing About Being an HPB Surgeon

1:05:16 - Differences in Becoming the Chair of Surgery

1:08:16 - Best Things About Working in Academia

1:10:28 - Characteristics of the Best Med Students/Residents

1:11:26 - Maximizing Competitiveness Going Into Surgery

1:14:10 - Favorite Historical Surgeon

1:15:42 - Responsibility of Surgeons in Advocacy of Social Change

1:17:30 - Advice for Graduating Med Students

1:19:58 - Very Important Question!!!

1:22:31 - Closing Message

1:23:52 - Outro

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Resources

The Smart Take from the Strong by Pete Carril - https://a.co/d/is7c0cN

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#13: From Interviewing Bill Clinton to Performing Surgery - An Interview with a General Surgery Resident May 22, 2023

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Brian Till, MD is a PGY-4 in surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Born in San Francisco and went to Haverford College where he studied political science, then University of Vermont college of medicine. Brian has been awarded multiple grants for his outstanding research and innovations. Amazingly, Brian is also an accomplished writer, still writing articles for such places at The New Republic, Foreign Affairs, and The Atlantic. He has also written a book, “Conversations With Power,” where he performed original interviews from people such as Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianTillMD

Checkout his book: https://a.co/d/1ZBYYKO

Email him: Brian.Till@jefferson.edu

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0:00 - Intro

0:32 - Writing and Politics Before Medicine

4:00 - Transitioning Into Medicine

6:11 - What Event/Experience Made You Decide on Medicine?

7:41 - Goals

11:33 - Entering Med School Older Than Most People

12:42 - Being Dyslexic and Dealing With It

15:55 - The Hardest Thing You Have Done?

17:39 - Average Day/Week as a General Surgery Resident

29:08 - Years of General Surgery Residency

33:41 - Things You Wish You Knew Before Going Into GS Residency

35:14 - Maximizing Competitiveness as a Med Student Going Into GS Residency

37:26 - Ending Part 1

37:50 - Part 2

38:24 - If I Give You $100 Million, What Would You Do?

42:25 - Med School Debts

44:06 - Best Things About Being a Surgeon

46:04 - Worst Things About Being a Surgeon

47:04 - Characteristics of a Student for Surgery

54:32 - General Life Advice for People

1:00:15 - People That Have Helped/Inspired You in Surgery

1:06:42 - Common Mistakes You See

1:07:13 - What Would You Say to Year 1 Med School Brian Till?

1:18:14 - Getting Interviews With Bill Clinton and Gorbachev

1:26:47 - How Do You Write a Book?

1:29:08 - Book Recommendations

1:32:17 - Closing Message

1:35:50 - Outro

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Resources:

Conversations with Power by Brian Till: https://a.co/d/1ZBYYKO

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanith: https://amzn.eu/d/4zn4RFc

The House of God by Samuel Shem: https://a.co/d/2bhGtPR

The Cost Conundrum: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/06/01/the-cost-conundrum

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Email him: Brian.Till@jefferson.edu

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#12: An Interview with a Gastroenterologist in Industry - Dr. Chiang May 08, 2023

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Dr. Chiang is a triple board-certified (gastroenterology, internal medicine, obesity medicine), got his BS from Duke, MPH from Harvard, and MD from Columbia. IM trained from NY Presbyterian Hospital, GI from Harvard at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Bariatric endoscopy fellowship from there as well, with a final advanced endoscopy fellowship here from Jefferson. He is currently the Chief Medical Officer of the gastrointestinal business for Medtronic. He is also an assistant professor of Medicine at TJUH and chief Social Media Officer for the health system. He is also the director of the endoscopic bariatric program here at Thomas Jefferson. He has been named Helios 2018 Gastroenterology innovator of the year and been featured on the NYT, CNBC, BBC News, Men’s Health, and more. Finally, he sits on the inaugural YouTube Health Advisory Board and joined the White House healthcare leaders in social media roundtable in 2022.

Follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/austinchiangmd/

Follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AustinChiangMD

Follow him on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@austinchiangmd

Follow him on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/austinchiangmd

Follow him on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AustinChiangMD

Checkout his website: http://www.austinchiang.com/home

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0:00 - Intro

1:14 - Statistics About Gastroenterology

3:50 - What Is Gastroenterology?

4:52 - Why Did You Pick GI?

9:42 - Deciding on GI in Med-School?