Postcall Podcast

Christmas in the hospital

Nick Andrews and Emi Okamoto, MD, talk about spending the holidays in the hospital, take a holiday quiz, and Nick reads the winning essay from the American College of Surgeons' RAS essay contest.

How should patients choose their doctors?

Host Nick Andrews and Emi Okamoto, M.D., discuss how patients choose their doctors. Plus, Kristen Aliano Messina, a plastic surgeon in Plano, Tx., talks with Nick about resiliency among surgical residents.

AMA gives Hahnemann residents $220 to relocate and Nike has a shoe for you!

Nick Andrews and Emi Okamoto, MD, discuss the new Nike shoe for "Everyday Heroes," Google enters the EHR space (sort-of) and the American Medical Association gives 570 Hahnemann residents $125,000 for relocation and other fees such as immigration proceedings. The guest this week is David Fajgenbaum, MD, whose book, Chasing My Cure documents his struggle with Castleman Disease as well as his fortitude to use his medical training to find a cure and unite the cause. Links: * Nike Shoe [https://news.nike.com/news/nike-air-zoom-pulse] * Reddit reaction [https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/dwya0d/according_to_nike_were_everyday_heroes/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share] * Google EHR Video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=22&v=P3SYqcPXqNk&feature=emb_logo] * Reddit reaction [https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/e19leb/google_health_early_look_at_ehr/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share] * AMA grant for Hahnemann residents [https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/e077ye/ama_pledged_125k_for_relocation_expenses_for/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share] * Dr. Fajgenbaum information: * Academic profile [https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g348/p8205911] * Twitter [https://twitter.com/davidfajgenbaum?lang=en] * New York Times profile [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/business/his-doctors-were-stumped-then-he-took-over.html]

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Thanksgiving episode: on-call workouts, sharing with patients, special codes

Medical Muggle Nick Andrews and Emi Okamoto, MD, talk about all things Thanksgiving in this special edition of the Postcall Podcast. We recommend saving this episode for Thanksgiving or Black Friday if you can't be with your friends/family for this holiday season. In the episode, we talk about how sharing with patients increases trust, the best gifts for doctors, what we're thankful for, a good in-hospital, on-call workout, and codes that you may need for your Thanksgiving shift. *** Help us make this podcast better! Please take our short, anonymous listener survey by clicking here [http://bit.ly/2MFEoZe]. *** Links: * Sharing stories with patients [https://wb.md/34XKH0u] * Weighing yourself every day helps with holiday poundage [https://wb.md/36XNuIV] * On-Call workout [http://bit.ly/371dBP9] * 20 Thanksgiving Codes [https://wb.md/2rysJmY] * The best gifts for doctors this season [Gifts%20for%20Docs] For more MDedge Podcasts, go tomdedge.com/podcasts [http://bit.ly/2CfnY52] Email the show:podcasts@mdedge.com [podcasts@mdedge.com] Interact with MDedge on Twitter: @MDedgeTweets [http://bit.ly/2TN5AKO]