Have you read the novel “The House of God” by psychiatrist Samuel Shem? I read it when I was in medical school and it deeply influenced me.

The book tells a captivating story of what it’s like to be a Harvard resident with lots of humor, drama and wisdom.

I’ve had the great pleasure to interview Samuel Shem for you. In this conversation we cover lots of ground like:

• The best advice he ever got
• What his creative process looks like
• How he came up with the idea for The House of God
• How failure has set him up for success
• The quote he lives by
• And much, much more

Welcome to Episode 13 of the Medmastery Show. I hope you had a great summer and go with energy and inspiration into the new academic year.

Inspiration and energy is what you’ll get from today’s interview. I promise you that. There are lots of nuggets of wisdom that you can apply and use in your own life. Today’s guest is Dr. Dan Siegel.

He’s an internationally acclaimed psychiatrist and New York Times bestselling author. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and then trained in pediatrics and psychiatry at UCLA.

Dr. Siegel is an internationally acclaimed mindfulness expert and is known for his work on the new field of Interpersonal Neurobiology. You’ll learn more about it in the interview.

He received many honors some of which include the UCLA psychiatry department's teaching award and several honorary fellowships for his work as director of UCLA's training program in child psychiatry. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and is the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute.

He has lectured for folks like the Dalai Lama, Pope John Paul II, Google University, the Minister of Education of Singapore and the Public School Superintendents of the United States. So you see, there are lots of people who trust his advice and whose lives he helped to improve.

I could go on and on raving about Dan. Instead I suggest you listen to and learn from the man himself. 

Welcome to Episode 12 of the Medmastery Show. I’m super excited about today’s episode. First off - let me tell you, we’ve been super busy these last couple of weeks creating brand-new courses and workshops that will help you become the best clinician you can possibly be.

Some of these courses are already online some will be published in the upcoming months. So stay tune. But back to this episode:

Today’s guest is Judson Brewer MD an internationally acclaimed psychiatrist and mindfulness expert. His talks at TED and TEDMED on the use of mindfulness techniques in medicine have hit over 5 million views.

Dr. Brewer has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for addiction, including both in-person and app­-based treatments.

In this interview, Judson explains how we can use mindfulness for ourselves and our patients to help us become happier and more fulfilled in our jobs and daily lives.

So without further ado, here’s Judson Brewer.

Among other things, we’ll cover:

• What is mindfulness and how you can use it in your life and patients
• What are the differences between the most common forms of meditation
• Why mindfulness is over five times more effective than traditional addiction therapy
• How Judson meditates
• Why you are probably addicted and what you can do about it
• Why you need to start meditating and how to do it
• And much, much more

If you like this episode, then absolutely make sure to also check out Dr. Brewer’s TED talks, which you can find in the show notes at www.medmastery.com/magazine.

Dr. Harper is the Chair of Cardiology, at the Presbyterian Dallas Hospital . He was voted “Best Doctor in Dallas” by D Magazine and according to the Guide to top Doctors is among the best doctors in America. His clinical interests include bedside cardiology, he used to be an intervent. cardiologist but is now focussing more on being a consultant and on intensive care, he’s a passionate teacher and spends roughly 1/3 of his time teaching residents and medical students at the University of Texas Soutwestern Medicalschool. In 2009 he launched a unique conference entitled “Literature and Medicine”. In this podcast, Dr. Harper will teach you how you can use literature in order to become a better doctor, a better storyteller, a more empathetic listener and much, much more. This is a unique conversation with lots of pieces of wisdom. I really enjoyed it and I hope you will too. So without further ado, here’s Dr. John Harper.

Today’s guest is cardiologist inventor Dr. David Albert. Dr. Dave as he’s also called on Twitter is the founder of AliveCor a great company with a great product.

In this interview you'll learn how to become an entrepreneur and inventor in medicine. Dr Albert shares great advice including:

• which team members you need to get your medical startup on track,
• what character traits he is looking for when hiring,
• and several more highly useful tips.

Dr Albert had a quite unusual career for a doctor. At med school he took a break to earn a degree in engineering and since then founded several companies like AliveCor, InnovAlarm and Lifetone Technology. His previous startups include Corazonix Corp and Data Critical that he both sold. Data Critical was actually sold to GE where he then worked between 2001 and 2004. At the end of his tenure there he was the Chief Clinical Scientist in Cardiology. Dr. Albert has 32 issued US patents, a large number pending patents and several new "secret inventions" in development. He has authored or co-authored over 50 scientific abstracts and publications mainly in the field of Cardiology. He has lectured at the Entrepreneurship programs at the MIT Sloan School and the University of Oklahoma. He graduated with Honors from Harvard College and from Duke University Medical School.

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Today Franz is interviewing Dr. Joseph Martin. He's a neurologist and the former dean of Harvard Medical School. In this conversation, he shares several key insights from his roles as physician, educator, scientist and "politician".

There are so many nuggets of wisdom in this coversation. We are super-excited to share this inspirational interview with you and would love to hear your thoughts in the comments section of our blog!

Born in Alberta, Canada in 1938, he went to the University of Alberta Medical School. Trained as a neurologist, he was appointed Chair of Neurology at McGill University in 1977 at the young age of 39. After that he became chief of the neurology service at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1978. At Harvard he established the Huntington’s Disease Center that eventually lead to the discovery of the gene for Huntington’s disease. In 1989 he became dean at UCSF School of Medicine and would later serve as the dean of Harvard Medical School between 1997 and 2007. Dr Martin is a member of the Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences.

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We are really excited to present the first female guest in our show:

Today's guest is Pamela Douglas, MD. She is the Ursula Geller Professor for Research in Cardiovascular Diseases at Duke University and Director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute’s Imaging Program. Dr. Douglas is internationally known for her scientific work in noninvasive imaging especially echocardiography. She’s the author of over 320 papers and over 30 national guidelines, she has previously served on the faculties of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University and the University of Wisconsin. She was chief of cardiovascular medicine at Duke University and the University of Wisconsin as well as President of the American College of Cardiology and the American Society of Echocardiography.

In this interview we talk about what makes a good researcher and clinician and she gives advice to all female doctors and scientists on how to be successful.

In this short interview (around 30 minutes) we talk about how to be happy and successful as a cardiologist, what makes a great clinician, researcher and overall human being. If you are working in cardiology, you don't want to miss these valuable nuggets of wisdom!

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Today's guest is Dr. Bernhard J. Gersh. He is the Professor of Medicine and past Chair of Cardiovascular Education at Mayo Medical School, as well as Consultant of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Born in Zambia, he went to highschool and medical school in South Africa. After medschool he received a Rhodes scholarship and went to Oxford where he did his PHD in anesthesiology. When he came back to SA, he started his training and learned the nuts and bolts of hands-on clinical cardiology. In 1978 he joined the Mayo Clinic to continue his training. He has remained in their faculty up until the present moment with a short break of 5 years that he spent in Georgetown University in Washington DC. He has been awarded many clinical honors and it’s no exaggeration to say that he’s one of the most renowned cardiologists in the world.

In this interview we're talking about Dr. Gersh's track record, how he evolved from having to repeat first year at medical school to having straight A's and receiving the Rhodes scholarship. Furthermore he gives advice to younger doctors on how to show effort and establish work relationships with senior colleagues.