Dr. Glaucomflecken On Humor & Sadness During Covid19

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Happy Doctors Day! In this special episode, everyone’s favorite doctor-comedian Dr. Glaucomflecken joins us! We discuss his brilliant use of humor in the early days of the #Covid-19 pandemic, how he keeps the sadness and sense of service close while he is making us laugh, and some key thoughts on the spleen.

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Key Learnings

1. The mindset of being funny in the midst of a pandemic

2. Answering the call to serve, while joking about it at the same time

3. Breaking down Dr. G’s brilliant Twitter thread on managing a ventilator

4. Why his tweet about eye care in the ICU made me cry

5. How Dr. G’s real life practice is different

6. Keeping the sadness close to the humor

7. Who Dr. G enjoys on Twitter

8. Wherein we go deep on the spleen

9. Thyroid vs pituitary

10. Dr. G’s background with First Descents

Links

Twitter @DGlaucomflecken

First Descents

Dr. G’s homepage

#Covid-19, #Covid19, #comedy, #pandemic, #doctorsday2020, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

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“Diversity in medicine is something we need to achieve to save lives”

Dr. Quinn Capers is a Professor of Medicine, an interventional cardiologist, and Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He is also an incredible mentor, teacher and guide around implicit bias and the importance of diversity in medicine. We discuss “the leaky pipeline”, the critical need for diversity in medicine, and how we can learn about implicit bias.

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Key Learnings

1. Defining “The Leaky Pipeline” and how talent is lost from kindergarten to medical school

2. Why the pipeline starts in kindergarten

3. Tools to plug leaks, prevent them from springing, and the importance of praise

4. The current state of medical school outreach programs

5. The impact of a diverse physician workforce

6. Understanding implicit bias as a good place to start and the importance of taking the guilt out of it

7. Picking up and overcoming guilt around implicit bias training

8. Recognizing the huge role that “gatekeepers” play in moving students along the pipeline & the impact their implicit biases can have

9. Expanding the audience for your ideas with social media

10. Dr. Capers’ passion for his clinical work and telling them “this heart attack is over”

11. Calling medical school applicants to tell them they’ve been admitted

Links

Twitter @Drquinncapers4

Take the Implicit Association Test

Reducing implicit bias in admissions process

Diversity in healthcare video

Implicit bias article

#diversity, #outreach, #bias, #implicitbias, #unconsciousbias, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

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“Every little effort counts, and it matters. We are all in this together”

Dr. Beth Linas is an Infectious Disease Epidemiologist who joins us at a pivotal moment in time as the world is gripped by the Coronavirus pandemic. We discuss the definition and work of an epidemiologist in this time, the critical importance of “flattening the curve”, and the aspirational fact that every single person has a part to play.

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Key Learnings

1. What is epidemiology?

2. Defining the toolbox for an epidemiologist in studying Covid19

3. Contact tracing and its incredible value

4. The importance of trust when doing contact tracing

5. Moving from containment to mitigation

6. What does “Flattening The Curve” mean?

7. The aspirational nature of having agency over flattening the curve

8. The consequences of not flattening the curve

9. What is Beth’s wish list for next few months

Links

Twitter @bethlinas

New York Times article on flattening the curve

#epidemiology, #publichealth, #covid, #coronavirus, #covid19, #pandemic, #flattenthecurve, #socialdistancing, #NBA, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

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“If people have the right to spread disinformation on social media, then it’s equally my right to spread information”

Dr. Ryan Marino is a medical Toxicologist and a power voice against medical disinformation on social media. We discuss the multiple roles a toxicologist plays, the battle against “detox” products, & pushing back against false narratives on social media. Ryan is outstanding at this work, there is much to learn from him. #DoctorsSpeakUp

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Key Learnings
1. Managing “the poisoned patient” as a medical Toxicologist

2. The wonder of Poison Control

3. What makes up bread and butter clinical toxicology

4. Engaging with the public as a toxicologist and the level of understanding

5. The insidious way “toxins” have infiltrated public discourse

6. What techniques has Ryan found helpful in discussing vaccines with people who are hesitant and what to avoid

7. Why Ryan is so committed to pushing back against false narratives on Twitter

8. Recognizing that changing one mind and impacting one person’s behavior is a tremendous victory

Links

Twitter @ryanmarino

American College of Medical Toxicology website

#toxicology, #poison, #poisoncontrol, #detox, #toxin, #vaccine, #vaccines, #vaping, #fentanyl, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

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“You’re gonna have to be fearless”

Caitlin Thompson is back! She is the co-founder of the splendid Racquet Magazine. More than that, she is an emerging leader and powerful social commentator. We discuss how industries like healthcare and professional tennis have opportunities to address climate change and what happens when they do. Hot takes abound!

Here’s Caitlin’s previous appearance on Explore The Space Podcast episode 126

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Key Learnings

1. Acknowledging how our industries are drivers of climate change

2. What transpired at the Australian Open and how it helped shape Caitlin’s view of the impact of climate change

3. Why Caitlin is disappointed in the approach taken by professional tennis around climate change to date.

4. How does eco-anxiety drive inertia?

5. Identifying areas where tennis is innovating and taking action around climate change

6. What happens if Roger Federer breaks from a sponsor because of climate change and fossil fuels?

7. The parallels between tennis players and doctors finding their voice

8. Some premium tennis talk with a brilliant mind for the sport we love

Links

Twitter @caitlin_thomps

Racquet Magazine: https://racquetmag.com

Racquet Podcast episode w/ Nicole Gibbs

#tennis, #climatechange, #fossilfuel, #sports, #leadership, #advocacy, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

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“I believe that art and visual imagery is innate. Anyone can understand it”

Dr. Mike Natter is a 3rd year Internal Medicine resident and a stunning artist. Like truly wonderful. We discuss using art as a teaching tool, how he reflects and critiques residency training through his art, and our shared love for Calvin & Hobbes. This is so much fun, enjoy!

Don’t miss your chance to nominate a guest for Explore The Space Podcast and win a fantastic coffee-centric prize! Contest closes 2/28 at 8am PST

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Key Learnings

1. Using art as a teaching tool

2. Does Mike use his art for other subjects or just medicine

3. How the process of art is beneficial, not the end-product

4. Tools of the trade

5. The things that Mike feels compelled to draw at any opportunity

6. How Mike reflects the challenges and hardships of residency in his art

7. What does a day off look like

8. The art that Mike enjoys

9. The growth of graphic art and medicine

10. Why talking about our shared hobbies at work is a challenge

11. Calvin and Hobbes. That’s it

12. Merging and sustaining more than one passion

Links

Twitter @mike.natter  Instagram: @mike_natter

 

#art, #passion, #hobby, #medicine, #residency, #graphicart, #teaching, #calvinandhobbes, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

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“The interests of the public are greater than the interests of special interest groups that oppose it”

Ken Berlin is the President & CEO of The Climate Reality Project, an essential organization working against climate change. We discuss how to spur individual & organizational movement on climate, why the political lever is the most crucial one to pull in 2020, and how to become a Climate Reality Leader.

The Explore The Space Podcast archive of climate change-related episodes can be found here

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Key Learnings

1. The strategic view of the current state of climate change activism and advocacy

2. How large organizations from the business world are being engaged

3. Examining the disproportionate impact of climate change on economically disadvantaged communities

4. How Climate Reality tries to be agile in a changing climate environment

5. Spurring movement on climate change: showing it’s an issue people must pay attention to and that there are solutions available

6. Dealing with climate change denial

7. Levers to maintain and propagate a sense of hope and progress

8. Acknowledging the importance of the 2020 US election in driving towards progress on climate change, getting people to vote, and helping politicians understand there is a mandate for change

9. What happens when an athlete or celebrity divests from a company over climate change response

10. Why Ken came to the world of climate change advocacy

11. Why having doctors and healthcare professionals engaging in climate change advocacy is some vital

12. Becoming a Climate Reality Leader

Links

Twitter @climatereality, Instagram @climatereality

The Climate Reality Project

Becoming a Climate Reality Leader

#climatechange, #climate, #climatedenial, #wildfire, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

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“It was a thinking about how we could use a journal as an instrument for social change”

Dr. Richard Horton is a physician & the Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet. He joins to discuss the extraordinary path towards social change this massively influential journal is walking, why physicians have an obligation to engage in nonviolent protest around climate change, & how he seeks to make the advancement of science for the good of society a primary goal amidst the commercialization of science

Here is a link to all of the climate change-related episodes of Explore The Space Podcast.

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Key Learnings

1. The meaning of responsibility and legacy

2. How The Lancet is reinventing itself as an instrument of social change and social action

3. Recognizing that climate change is the greatest existential threat we face

4. The long record of The Lancet advocating for physicians participating in peaceful, nonviolent protest

5. Dr. Horton’s statement on physician’s responsibility around climate change

6. How the National Health Service (NHS) is hardwired into the British mindset

7. Health, connection, and solidarity

8. Cross-over appeal and how The Lancet is seeking a broader audience and leverage social change

9. Hearing from people in China about coronavirus and the importance of elevating those voices in The Lancet

10. The importance of combining political power with evidence to leverage social change

11. Have any editors from other medical journals reached out to learn from The Lancet?

12. Wherein the founding documents of The Enlightenment are referenced

13. Moving away from the commercialization of science and towards Enlightenment aspirations of advancing the well-being of society.

14. Richard’s interest in examining the impact of capitalism on human health

Links

Twitter @richardhorton1, @thelancet

The Lancet Countdown report for 2020

#thelancet, #journal, #climatechange, #climateemergency, #coronavirus, #health, #coronavirus, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

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“Action feels better than anxiety”

Jesse Spurr is an ICU nurse, Dr. Courtney Howard is an Emergency physician, and they are both essential parts of a new international healthcare conference: Coda 2020. We discuss both why and how Coda will focus on climate change, the unique approach to information sharing and collaboration it will engender, and just what is at stake.

Coda 2020 is going to be very special, and I am honored to announce that I will be participating as a member of the conference faculty. Please check out the website and stand by to register! Registration goes live on April 1, 2020. Coda takes place in Melbourne, Australia from Sept 28-Oct 2, 2020.

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Key Learnings

1. The resonance of viewing Earth as our sick patient in need of resuscitation

2. How Courtney learned about the connection between climate change & human health

3. Solistalgia and eco-anxiety

4. The origins of Coda as a collaboration to tackle global health issues starting with climate change and the excitement it engenders

5. How climate change can impact both health and health care systems and the thrill of engaging across disciplines to help solve the problem

6. Getting out of echo chambers and creating a diverse audience so Coda has a profound ripple effect.

7. The irreverent, iconoclastic style of the conference & The Four Pillars of Coda

8. Strategies for keeping the  call to action from Coda sticky and resonant when we get home

9. What’s actually going to happen in the day to day at Coda, and why you should come

Links

Twitter @courtghoward @codachange @inject_orange

Coda 2020 homepage

Courtney’s website

#Coda, #SMACC, #climate, #climatechange, #conferences, #CME, #Melbourne, #international, #ecoanxiety, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

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“It’s really hard to look someone else in the eyes and say hey, here’s this moment for me that I’m broken about”

Mitochondrial Eve (not their real name) is a Critical Care RN and a prominent voice in the medical Twittersphere #MedTwitter. We discuss the concept of transparency on social media juxtaposed with transparency in the clinical setting.

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Key Learnings

1. Why Eve stays anonymous on Twitter

2. Navigating boundaries with patient and members of the care team

3. The importance of understanding transference when caring for patients

4. Leveraging personal experience to enhance communication with patients and families while respecting one’s own personal boundaries

5. The power of stillness and being able to absorb

6. How Eve responds when someone shares a personal or difficult thing with them via social media

7. Whether Eve writes on social media spontaneously or crafted before posting

8. #BakingWithEve, #BreadThreads and the wonder of baking bread

9. Eve’s apex breads

10. Coffee and Aeropress vs French Press

Links

Twitter @browofjustice

Eve’s article “I Will Not Cry”

Eve’s favorite #BakingWithEve Twitter thread

#transparency, #criticalcare, #nurse, #nursing, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician