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Physician's Guide to Doctoring: Business of Medicine, Patient Experience, Communication, Burnout, Moral Injury, Personal Finance, Leadership, Side-Gigs, Work-Life Balance, Coaching, Career, EHR, White Coat, and Well-being for Healthcare Entrepreneurs


This is a podcast that answers the question, "what should we have been learning while we were memorizing Kreb's cycle?" This is a practical guide for practicing physicians and other healthcare practitioners looking to improve in any and all aspects of our lives and practices. Physician and non-physician experts are interviewed on a wide range of topics to help us with personal and professional development.
If you want to share you expertise on the podcast, please email me at brad@physiciansguidetodoctoring.com or @physiciansguide on Twitter.

Apr 19, 2022

Alison Escalante, MD is a practicing pediatrician who has developed a way of thinking and breathing through what she calls, “The Shouldstorm.”  As physicians, we face similar storms with our patients, colleagues, administrators, and ourselves.  She walks us through the ideas she presented in a TEDx talk and applies it to doctoring.     She can be found at  shouldstorm.com  And her TEDx talk can be found at  youtube.com/watch?v=mYT7EDi_nOs&t=387s   She did her undergrad at Princeton, studying Medieval Renaissance History, went to med school at Rutgers University-Robert Wood Johnson and pediatric residency at Duke and University of Chicago.  She is a former clinical instructor of pediatrics at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine and is now a pediatrician at DuPage medical group in Naperville, Illinois.  She practices what she preaches as the mother of two fun, friendly, rambunctious and startlingly wise boys.