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Stimulus - Learn Tools to Crush It in Your Medical Career — 157 episodes
Avoiding Disability Insurance Disasters
Congratulations, You’re a Cog | Reclaiming agency inside a hungry system
Why Your Job Needs a Better Scorecard
How to Switch From Self Flagellation to Context Assessment
How to Handle Interruptions Without Alienating Your Team
Why You Might Be Chasing the Wrong Dream
Dan Millman on How to Practice Life
Supranormal
How To Not Overthink Simple Decisions
What Every Premed Parent Needs to Know
Why You Have More Power Than You Think to Change Healthcare
Do You Know the Difference Between Competence and Capacity?
Boundary Rituals: How to Keep Work from Following You Home
Crystal-Clear and Error-Free | Three Essential Tools for High-Stakes Communication
How to Stop Spiralling When Massively Stressed with Scott Weingart
How I Coach Doctors With A Performance Improvement Plan
An Insider’s Look at Addiction Medicine
Are You Still Lit Up by the Core of Your Work?
The White Coat Investor | Avoiding the Money Mistakes That Sink Physicians
From Fried to Fired Up | How One Doctor Rebuilt His Career
A Guide to Skillful Death Communication with Alex Jabr, PhD
Your First Leadership Role? Start With These 8 Principles
Active Shooter: Run, Hide, or Fight?
The Upset Patient Protocol
The Emergency Mindset: What Med School Got Wrong
Nonverbal Communication | From facial expressions to tonal authority
Why You Can't Be Bad at Meditation
What's It Like To Be A Transgender Physician?
Regression to the Mean Isn’t as Boring as it Sounds
Five Ways to Connect With Patients
Mel Herbert on Mediocrity, Forgiveness, and the Cost of Holding Grudges
The Fine Print of Crushing It | Small actions for big impact
Registration for Awake + Aware 2025 is Now Open!
The Lowest Common Denominator of Communication
How to be a Good Boss and Navigate a Bad One
Tax Secrets Every Doctor Should Know
The Mistake Most of Us Make When Work Feels Crappy
Is Your Hospital Toxic? | The Critical Role of Psychological Safety
What If Your Job Ended Tomorrow?
So You Want To Start A Business | Going all in on the side hustle
Are You Betting On Yourself? | How locus of control makes all the difference
The Strange History of Medical Debt
Impatience, Anger, and the Guilt of Abundance | Insights from the Dalai Lama’s Doctor
Are Non-Compete Clauses About To Be History? | And what to consider before accepting a signing bonus
Why Cultural Context Matters in Patient Care and Clinician Burnout
Kicking The Can Down The Road | How to break up with deciding not to decide
How to Create a Team in 10 Seconds | Why time is not linear and every second not worth the same
Thinking Outside Your Retirement Account | Working harder vs creating value
Phantasia Kataleptike | The secret skill of Stoicism
Making the trade | How to know when it's time to change careers
Default Mode Network vs. Task Positive Network | How our brains balance mind wandering and focused attention
Moral Injury | The crossroads of conscience
117. From Chaos to Control | Taming the tempest of task saturation
116. Resistance | How to crack inertia
115. Zero Warning | Scott Weingart on frameworks for no-notice critical patients
114. An Insider’s Guide to Medical Malpractice | Why the US system is so peculiar and how to navigate the morass
113. Understanding Healthy (and Unhealthy) Relationship Dynamics
112. Pizza doesn’t work | An evidence-based intervention that reduced physician burnout and increased job satisfaction
111. Does Private Equity Belong in Medicine?
110. A Strategy Mid-Shift Overwhelm | Conquer the deluge and get home on time
109. Is Your Identity Holding You Back?
108. How To Not Argue With Reality | The paradox of accepting the present moment, even when seems really sh*tty
107. The Power of Lightly Held Beliefs | Bitcoin enemas, cold exposure, and the law of speedy gains
106. The Drama Triangle | Rewriting the script for conflict and broken communication
105. How Do You Decide When to Say Yes or No | Steps to develop a heuristic for decision making
104. Trapped in a World of Bad Advice | The tightrope between asking and telling with Edgar Schein, PhD
103. How to Have a Nearly Perfect Shift | Reversing frustration and identifying the opposite outcome
102. Ten Percent of a Bad Idea | Why your gut reaction may lead you astray
101. Being In-Between | How to navigate big and small transitions
100. Listening to Understand versus Listening to Win | Strategies for quality listening and how to know when you've got it right
99. Unlocking the Secrets of Learning | Mental models of expertise, threaded cognition, and tactics for information retention
98. How to recover from a horrible, rotten, no-good shift
97. The Spock Retreat | Using logic to solve emotional situations (and how to stop it)
96.5 The curious case of Zithromax and viral respiratory infections
96. Compassion Fatigue
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
94. Why We Argue About Money | Finance advice and the value of a scarcity mindset
93. Five Sleep Tools We've Tested and Like
93. Feedback can be hard to give and harder to receive. Here are techniques to do both better.
92. Strategies for Shift Endurance
91. Is this the end of note bloat? | Breaking down the 2023 documentation guidelines
90. The Dalai Lama’s Doctor Has a Prescription for You | The critical distinction between empathy and compassion
89. The Drunk Whisperer | Verbal de-escalation for the agitated, upset, and unruly
88. Peak Ending | How closings color our recollections and using that to our advantage at work
87. Availability Bias | Skewed risk assessments from a pervasive cognitive distortion
86. Mastering Workflow and Overwhelm | Task hierarchy, rate limiting steps, parallel processing, swarming, and the forgotten art of running the board
85. The Professional's Mindset | Embracing the pact and extreme ownership
84. A Look Inside Ketamine Clinics (and how to start your own)
83. Recalibrating when it all falls apart | In real time strategies to reset during a calamity
82. Letter to My Future Self | Proactively managing self-doubt
81. Medical Ethics in the Heat of the Moment | Withdrawing and withholding care, delaying death, over-treatment, and the daughter from California,
80. The False Assumption of Apologizing for Medical Mistakes
79. The Sleep Expert | Get to sleep and stay asleep
78. I Was Unlucky, But You Frankly Suck | The fundamental attribution error
77. Tiny Habits | Anchors, micro moves, and upward scaling
76. Inner Criticism | How to keep a negative inner voice from taking over
75. Hot Debriefing | Processing events while you're still in the arena
74. Flipping the Narrative on Performance Metrics | Why we're bad at self assessment, crafting meaningful metrics, balancing data
73. The Value and Pitfalls of Signout Culture with Mike Weinstock, MD
72. Navigating Uncertainty and Powering Down at the End of the Day with Dan Dworkis MD, PhD
71. Designing Your Life | How an engineer recommends evaluating your work, health, love, and play
70. Real World Applications of Nonviolent Communication
69. A Primer on Nonviolent Communication
68. Take the Suck out of Documentation | Making the most of scribes, documenting in the room (and in front of the patient), efficient workflows
67. Caring for the Unapologetically Unvaccinated
66. Hell Yeah or No
65. Bouncing Back After a Tough Case
64. Why Focusing on Patient Experience and Not Satisfaction Is the Right Move
63. The Pillars of Your Professional Life | Do you own or rent your career?
62. Primum Non Nocere | How 8 doctors practice 'first do no harm'
60. How to Be A Medical Expert Witness with Amal Mattu, MD and Rich Orman, JD
59. Aim to be a Zero | An astronaut's guide to life on Earth
58. Lessons Learned in Blood | Mass casualty response effectiveness with Green Beret and physician Mike Shertz, MD
57. Cultivating the Emergency Mind | Graduated pressure, sangfroid, and acknowledging the suboptimal
56. Rescue in the Jungle | Rob and Melissa meet a hiker with a medical emergency
55. Too Much On My Plate | Getting un-busy, procrastination, and pulling back from overcommitment
54. Spanish matador Juan Belmonte practiced naked | Defining success and developing character through the medium of career
53. The Five Fears of Scott Weingart
52. Listening to Podcasts for Maximal Retention | Interstitial time, task type, hour of day, driving vs undivided attention
51. Excellent Presentations with Ross Fisher, MD | Detailed instructions for how to slay it on stage (or online)
50. The Wedge | An internal shift to thrive under duress
49. Can Sex Improve Nasal Function?
48. Skill Decay | How to get back in the game
46. Strategies to De-Stress Your Nervous System | Before, during, and after intense events
44. The Beirut Explosion and Mass Casualty | A First Hand Account
43. How to Not Take Things Personally
42. Tough Love and Managing Complainers | Unapologetic expectations with Jim Adams, MD
41. Cognitive Reframing | Shifting the approach with addiction, end of life, and catastrophizing
39. Vinay Prasad Wants to Flip Your Vote | Chemotherapy delusions, overstating benefit, trade offs, and medical reversal
38. How to Meditate
37. Stress Inoculation | HALO procedures, racing the clock, low fi sim, and the power of an audience
35. A Physician's Terminal Diagnosis | Facing mortality and sharing wisdom
34. How Tylenol and Sleep Impact Vaccine Antibody Response
33. Willpower Depletion and the Limits of Self Regulation
31. The Dalai Lama’s Doctor, Barry Kerzin MD
29. How To Be An Effective Leader
27. Imposter Syndrome, Either/Or Thinking, and the Daily Dose of Goodness
25. Digital Minimalism
23. Michele Harper on Being a Guardian of the Vulnerable
22. Mastering Communication When It Matters Most
21. Responding in Anger | Impulse vs intent
19. Esther Choo and the Equity Quotient
17. Why We Procrastinate
16. The Accumulation of Marginal Gains With Salim Rezaie | From 260 pounds to super fit
14. Stoic With a Capital S
12. How to Achieve Flow State
11. ZDoggMD | Race, Star Wars, virtue signaling, and prepping for a live show
10. The Space Between Stimulus and Response
9. The Master Skill of Taking Breaks
8. The Bob Ross School of Trauma | Don't rush but don't linger, full chill, talk the process
7. The White Coat Investor | Bear markets, investing plans, income loss, and cushion cash
5. The Art of Breathing
4. Talking to Fear
3. Street Medicine
2. Pregame Like a Pro | Walk into your shift ready to rock
1. Verbal Judo | The art of verbal de-escalation
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