Author: Nance Goldstein

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Elizabeth Gaufberg trained as both an internist and psychiatrist. She practiced for many years at Cambridge Health Alliance in metropolitan Boston. Still at CHA, she now directs its Center for Professional Development. She also works with the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Research Institute to improve medical education and training. This work aims to match medical training curriculum to the challenges of today’s healthcare.

In this show, we talk about:

• How keeping one’s values at the core of any decisions can change one’s daily experience
• The importance of seeing what is working well and building on that
• How advocating for oneself improves things…and can be done better with the help of others

Show Notes

• A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey toward an undivided life Parker Palmer, 2004. Jossey-Bass

• ArtMed Insight Using art to enhance perception for diagnosis and treatment

• Center for Mindfulness and Compassion Cambridge Health Alliance

• Auscultations – Cambridge Health Alliance’s employee literary arts journal

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Jennifer Brinckerhoff is a geriatrician. She practices in primary care in one of the Boston area Hebrew Senior Life communities. In this show, she talks about:

• How curiosity led her to the right job for her. It was next door!
• What both a “stretch” goal and a “reach” goal can do
• How “the big picture” helps her day-to-day

Show Notes

• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Atul Gawande, 2014. Metropolitan Books

• Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs)

• The Conversation Project

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Megan Ranney is an emergency physician and directs Brown University School of Medicine’s Emergency Digital Health Innovation Program. She talks about:

• How working harder was not the right answer for her
• What figuring out her priorities did for her
• Who and what helped her keep perspective and renew her energy when things got difficult

Show Notes

The Emergency Digital Health Innovation Program (eDHI) at Brown University School of Medicine – Department of Medicine

The Office of Women in Medicine and Science at Brown University

Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine in the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Women in Emergency Medicine Interest Group, American Academy of Emergency Medicine

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Lanalee Sam is an Ob/Gyn. She created her own practice, Elite Obstetrics and Gynecology to serve her patients the way she wanted to. She talks about:

• How she created a practice that reflects her values
• People and resources that help her see things in perspective and
• How “flow” helps us as a physician and as a person.

Show Notes

Her practice is Elite Obstetrics and Gynecology.

• Facebook community by invitation: Physician Moms Group
• The Commonwealth Institute
• The Freedom Challenge and its planned July 2016 Wyoming Challenge.

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Mira Kautzky joined Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston as an internist after many years in small practice in Pennsylvania. She talks about:

• Accepting something less than perfect
• Mixing it up as a way to feel renewed,
• Matching your workload to your patterns, and
• Saying Yes carefully

Show Notes

Video parodies of EMRs and other medical challenges:

• EHR State of Mind
• #LetDoctorsBeDoctors
• ZDoggMD.com

Zdogg talks with Eric Topol about his parodies and his innovative medical clinic in Las Vegas: Medscape from WebMD

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Alice Rothchild practiced as an Obstetrician/Gynecologist at a large urban hospital for many years. In the episode she talks with us about:

• How she created a practice with friends designed to work when her children were young
• How she chose what she really wanted to do well, rather than allowing others to choose for her.

Show Notes

Alice’s website to access her books, film and blog on Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the state of Palestinian health and healthcare: www.AliceRothchild.com