Stimulus - Learn Tools to Crush It in Your Medical Career
By Rob Orman, MD
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Episodes: 144
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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 it up, think differently.
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Crystal-Clear and Error-Free | Three Essential Tools for High-Stakes Communication
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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How to Stop Spiralling When Massively Stressed with Scott Weingart
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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How I Coach Doctors With A Performance Improvement Plan
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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An Insider’s Look at Addiction Medicine
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May 26, 2025 |
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Are You Still Lit Up by the Core of Your Work?
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May 12, 2025 |
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The White Coat Investor | Avoiding the Money Mistakes That Sink Physicians
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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From Fried to Fired Up | How One Doctor Rebuilt His Career
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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A Guide to Skillful Death Communication with Alex Jabr, PhD
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Your First Leadership Role? Start With These 8 Principles
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Active Shooter: Run, Hide, or Fight?
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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The Upset Patient Protocol
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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The Emergency Mindset: What Med School Got Wrong
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Nonverbal Communication | From facial expressions to tonal authority
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Why You Can't Be Bad at Meditation
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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What's It Like To Be A Transgender Physician?
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Regression to the Mean Isn’t as Boring as it Sounds
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Five Ways to Connect With Patients
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Mel Herbert on Mediocrity, Forgiveness, and the Cost of Holding Grudges
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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The Fine Print of Crushing It | Small actions for big impact
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Registration for Awake + Aware 2025 is Now Open!
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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The Lowest Common Denominator of Communication
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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How to be a Good Boss and Navigate a Bad One
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Tax Secrets Every Doctor Should Know
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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The Mistake Most of Us Make When Work Feels Crappy
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Is Your Hospital Toxic? | The Critical Role of Psychological Safety
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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What If Your Job Ended Tomorrow?
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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So You Want To Start A Business | Going all in on the side hustle
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Are You Betting On Yourself? | How locus of control makes all the difference
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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The Strange History of Medical Debt
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Impatience, Anger, and the Guilt of Abundance | Insights from the Dalai Lama’s Doctor
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Are Non-Compete Clauses About To Be History? | And what to consider before accepting a signing bonus
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Why Cultural Context Matters in Patient Care and Clinician Burnout
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Kicking The Can Down The Road | How to break up with deciding not to decide
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May 20, 2024 |
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How to Create a Team in 10 Seconds | Why time is not linear and every second not worth the same
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Thinking Outside Your Retirement Account | working harder vs creating value
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Phantasia Kataleptike | The secret skill of Stoicism
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Making the trade | How to know when it's time to change careers
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Default Mode Network vs. Task Positive Network | How our brains balance mind wandering and focused attention
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Moral Injury | The crossroads of conscience
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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117. From Chaos to Control | Taming the tempest of task saturation
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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116. Resistance | How to crack inertia
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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115. Zero Warning | Scott Weingart on frameworks for no-notice critical patients
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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114. An Insider’s Guide to Medical Malpractice | Why the US system is so peculiar and how to navigate the morass
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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113. Understanding Healthy (and Unhealthy) Relationship Dynamics
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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112. Pizza doesn’t work | An evidence-based intervention that reduced physician burnout and increased job satisfaction
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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111. Does Private Equity Belong in Medicine?
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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110. A Strategy Mid-Shift Overwhelm | Conquer the deluge and get home on time
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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109. Is Your Identity Holding You Back?
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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108. How To Not Argue With Reality | The paradox of accepting the present moment, even when seems really sh*tty
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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107. The Power of Lightly Held Beliefs | Bitcoin enemas, cold exposure, and the law of speedy gains
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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106. The Drama Triangle | Rewriting the script for conflict and broken communication
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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105. How Do You Decide When to Say Yes or No | Steps to develop a heuristic for decision making
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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104. Trapped in a World of Bad Advice | The tightrope between asking and telling with Edgar Schein, PhD
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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103. How to Have a Nearly Perfect Shift | Reversing frustration and identifying the opposite outcome
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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102. Ten Percent of a Bad Idea | Why your gut reaction may lead you astray
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May 15, 2023 |
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101. Being In-Between | How to navigate big and small transitions
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May 01, 2023 |
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100. Listening to Understand versus Listening to Win | Strategies for quality listening and how to know when you've got it right
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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99. Unlocking the Secrets of Learning | Mental models of expertise, threaded cognition, and tactics for information retention
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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98. How to recover from a horrible, rotten, no-good shift
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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97. The Spock Retreat | Using logic to solve emotional situations (and how to stop it)
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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96.5 The curious case of Zithromax and viral respiratory infections
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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96. Compassion Fatigue
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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95. A Disability Insurance Deep Dive | What to look for in a policy, why it's so often a fight with insurance companies, and how to collect
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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94. Why We Argue About Money | Finance advice and the value of a scarcity mindset
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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93. Five Sleep Tools We've Tested and Like
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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93. Feedback can be hard to give and harder to receive. Here are techniques to do both better.
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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92. Strategies for Shift Endurance
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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91. Is this the end of note bloat? | Breaking down the 2023 documentation guidelines
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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90. The Dalai Lama’s Doctor Has a Prescription for You | The critical distinction between empathy and compassion
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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89. The Drunk Whisperer | Verbal de-escalation for the agitated, upset, and unruly
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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88. Peak Ending | How closings color our recollections and using that to our advantage at work
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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87. Availability Bias | Skewed risk assessments from a pervasive cognitive distortion
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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86. Mastering Workflow and Overwhelm | Task hierarchy, rate limiting steps, parallel processing, swarming, and the forgotten art of running the board
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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85. The Professional's Mindset | Embracing the pact and extreme ownership
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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84. A Look Inside Ketamine Clinics (and how to start your own)
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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83. Recalibrating when it all falls apart | In real time strategies to reset during a calamity
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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82. Letter to My Future Self | Proactively managing self-doubt
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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81. Medical Ethics in the Heat of the Moment | Withdrawing and withholding care, delaying death, over-treatment, and the daughter from California,
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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80. The False Assumption of Apologizing for Medical Mistakes
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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79. The Sleep Expert | Get to sleep and stay asleep
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May 31, 2022 |
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78. I Was Unlucky, But You Frankly Suck | The fundamental attribution error
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May 16, 2022 |
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77. Tiny Habits | Anchors, micro moves, and upward scaling
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May 02, 2022 |
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76. Inner Criticism | How to keep a negative inner voice from taking over
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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75. Hot Debriefing | Processing events while you're still in the arena
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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74. Flipping the Narrative on Performance Metrics | Why we're bad at self assessment, crafting meaningful metrics, balancing data
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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73. The Value and Pitfalls of Signout Culture with Mike Weinstock, MD
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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72. Navigating Uncertainty and Powering Down at the End of the Day with Dan Dworkis MD, PhD
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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71. Designing Your Life | How an engineer recommends evaluating your work, health, love, and play
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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70. Real World Applications of Nonviolent Communication
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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69. A Primer on Nonviolent Communication
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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68. Take the Suck out of Documentation | Making the most of scribes, documenting in the room (and in front of the patient), efficient workflows
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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67. Caring for the Unapologetically Unvaccinated
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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66. Hell Yeah or No
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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65. Bouncing Back After a Tough Case
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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64. Why Focusing on Patient Experience and Not Satisfaction Is the Right Move
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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63. The Pillars of Your Professional Life | Do you own or rent your career?
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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62. Primum Non Nocere | How 8 doctors practice 'first do no harm'
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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60. How to Be A Medical Expert Witness with Amal Mattu, MD and Rich Orman, JD
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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59. Aim to be a Zero | An astronaut's guide to life on Earth
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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58. Lessons Learned in Blood | Mass casualty response effectiveness with Green Beret and physician Mike Shertz, MD
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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57. Cultivating the Emergency Mind | Graduated pressure, sangfroid, and acknowledging the suboptimal
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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56. Rescue in the Jungle | Rob and Melissa meet a hiker with a medical emergency
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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55. Too Much On My Plate | Getting un-busy, procrastination, and pulling back from overcommitment
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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54. Spanish matador Juan Belmonte practiced naked | Defining success and developing character through the medium of career
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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53. The Five Fears of Scott Weingart
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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52. Listening to Podcasts for Maximal Retention | Interstitial time, task type, hour of day, driving vs undivided attention
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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51. Excellent Presentations with Ross Fisher, MD | Detailed instructions for how to slay it on stage (or online)
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May 31, 2021 |
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50. The Wedge | An internal shift to thrive under duress
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May 17, 2021 |
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49. Can Sex Improve Nasal Function?
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May 06, 2021 |
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48. Skill Decay | How to get back in the game
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May 03, 2021 |
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46. Strategies to De-Stress Your Nervous System | Before, during, and after intense events
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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44. The Beirut Explosion and Mass Casualty | A First Hand Account
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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43. How to Not Take Things Personally
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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42. Tough Love and Managing Complainers | Unapologetic expectations with Jim Adams, MD
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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41. Cognitive Reframing | Shifting the approach with addiction, end of life, and catastrophizing
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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39. Vinay Prasad Wants to Flip Your Vote | Chemotherapy delusions, overstating benefit, trade offs, and medical reversal
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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38. How to Meditate
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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37. Stress Inoculation | HALO procedures, racing the clock, low fi sim, and the power of an audience
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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35. A Physician's Terminal Diagnosis | Facing mortality and sharing wisdom
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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34. How Tylenol and Sleep Impact Vaccine Antibody Response
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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33. Willpower Depletion and the Limits of Self Regulation
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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31. The Dalai Lama’s Doctor, Barry Kerzin MD
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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29. How To Be An Effective Leader
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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27. Imposter Syndrome, Either/Or Thinking, and the Daily Dose of Goodness
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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25. Digital Minimalism
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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23. Michele Harper on Being a Guardian of the Vulnerable
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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22. Mastering Communication When It Matters Most
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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21. Responding in Anger | Impulse vs intent
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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19. Esther Choo and the Equity Quotient
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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17. Why We Procrastinate
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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16. The Accumulation of Marginal Gains With Salim Rezaie | From 260 pounds to super fit
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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14. Stoic With a Capital S
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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12. How to Achieve Flow State
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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11. ZDoggMD | Race, Star Wars, virtue signaling, and prepping for a live show
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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10. The Space Between Stimulus and Response
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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9. The Master Skill of Taking Breaks
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May 25, 2020 |
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8. The Bob Ross School of Trauma | Don't rush but don't linger, full chill, talk the process
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May 14, 2020 |
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7. The White Coat Investor | Bear markets, investing plans, income loss, and cushion cash
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May 07, 2020 |
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5. The Art of Breathing
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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4. Talking to Fear
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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3. Street Medicine
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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2. Pregame Like a Pro | Walk into your shift ready to rock
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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1. Verbal Judo | The art of verbal de-escalation
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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What this show is about.
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Mar 02, 2020 |