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Dr. Ben Belknap is a community Emergency Physician in NYC. He is also the co-Founder and Director of The Kingiti Fund, a non-profit working with leaders in rural Tanzania to create and maintain high-quality emergency services (among many, many other things) there.

Ben managed The Kingiti Fund throughout medical school after founding it while serving in the Peace Corp. He expanded its services while completing residency. For Ben, training in emergency medicine was always a tool allowing him to better meet the needs of the Mpwapwa community rather than a personal fascination. However, there was ways for hobbyists in international medicine to contribute in meaningful ways too.

Please enjoy this fascinating discussion with Ben about international aid, medicine, development,  ethics, and how you can get involved.

You can reach Ben at:
[email protected]

Links to people and things discussed in this episode:
The Kingiti Fund
Mpwapwa, Tanzania

Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal is an internal medicine physician. She is also a New York Times best-selling author and the current Editor-in-Chief of Kaiser Health News.

Elisabeth has had an extremely successful career exploring and writing about the complexities of US healthcare system and the human body. She entered the physician-training pipeline as a traditional pre-med/biology major but got the writing bug, started writing for anyone and everyone, and never looked back.

Join us for a fascinating discussion with Elisabeth about challenges inherent to the American healthcare system, how physicians are uniquely positioned to write about them, and the steps you can take to do so.

You can reach Elisabeth at:
[email protected]

Her book:
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

Links to people and things discussed in this episode:
Science Digest
Discover
Leon Daniel
Marshall Allen
Sarah Kliff
Marty Makary
KHN Bill of the Month
Perri Klass
One School Project

Dr. Chase DiMarco (PhD) is a medical student (MD), author, and tech entrepreneur. He is also currently the CEO of the crowdsourcing platform FindARotation.com.

Chase is a serial entrepreneur who identifies challenges and solutions to those challenges everywhere he goes. During medical school, he realized that international medical graduates (IMG) were at a significant disadvantage compared to US graduates since IMGs were generally expected to find their clinical rotations, while most US graduates have those at the ready. He also realized that the number of available rotations were shrinking with the proliferation of nurse practitioner and physician assistant programs. Available services to help match students with preceptors were inadequate, so he founded the crowdsourcing platform FindARotation.com.

Chase was not a software engineer or web developer, of course. He had to figure out how to build the platform on his own.  During this episode, we'll learn from Chase the steps needed to create a software platform and how you can do the same. 

You can find Chase at:
FindARotation.com
Twitter/Insta/LinkedIn @ChaseDiMarco

Enjoy!

Dr. Gerardo Guerra Bonilla is a practicing family physician, hospitalist, and best-selling author.

Gerardo saves EHR note templates for himself so he can more efficiently document his patient encounters. He realized early in his career that these templates save him a significant amount of time. He also realized that other physicians would similarly benefit from access to high quality note templates. He sought ways to distribute his templates to his physician colleagues.

From his ambition to make documentation easier for others, Gerardo ended up with a best-selling book and a crowdsourcing web platform, Chartnote.com. Gerardo doesn't have degrees in journalism or literature. He didn't have a book deal or an agent. Further, he isn't a software engineer or web developer. He identified ways to self-publish his book and a number of ways to monetize his activities using resources easily available on the internet.

In this episode, we'll take an in-depth look at how physicians can publish and monetize books while continuing to practice medicine (or while transitioning away from it!).

Enjoy!

Find Gerardo at:
Chartnote.com
Twitter/Insta/LinkedIn: Gerardo Guerra Bonilla

Links discussed in the episode:
StatNote: Dot Phrases to Expedite your Medical Documentation
Tim Ferris
99 Designs
Amazon Self-Publishing
Amazon Affiliate Program
Wordpress
Mail Chimp
The 10% Entrepreneur: Live Your Startup Dream without Quitting your Day Job

Dr. Michael Barrie is an emergency physician and advisor in simulation and virtual reality.

Michael continues to practice community emergency medicine full-time. He also works in the consulting world, where he is an advisor to Sim X VR, a company pioneering healthcare simulations using virtual reality technologies. His commentary is used to shape medical education. 

Interestingly, Michael is not physically located in Silicon Valley. His work is remote and started with his general interest in VR, a poster presentation at an emergency medicine conference,  networking, and being open to new opportunities. 

Learn about Michael's non-clinical work here and find out how you can enter this fascinating world at the front of the medical technology wave.

Contact Michael at:
[email protected]

Find more about Sim X VR at:
SimXVR.com

Dr. Daphne Denham is a general surgeon and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) specialist.

Daphne runs a HBOT research and treatment center in Fargo, ND. In her surgical practice, she found there was a need for novel and creative options for treating sequelae associated with a number of conditions including concussions, chronic wounds, and even COVID-19. HBOT has shown great promise to that end. She spends her time treating patients with complex conditions with HBOT while constantly optimizing administration and pioneering treatments for new conditions. 

This is fascinating stuff.  Here, Daphne offers a master class in the science underlying HBOT while sharing the details about how you can successfully transition to a career at the front of the HBOT wave.

Find Daphne at:
HealingWithHyperbarics.com

Dr. Riva Kamat is a pediatric hospitalist and physician coach. 

Riva found there was a need for healing among healers and found a calling in providing it. She pivoted a bit from her career as a pediatric hospitalist and now has a successful career in coaching physicians.

Here, we will explore what it means to be a physician coach and take you step-by-step through how to start a practice supporting physicians.

Find Riva at:
LotusPhysicianCoaching.com

Welcome to our podcast! 

We are Andrew and Keevin, practicing physicians exploring the world of non-clinical and non-traditional physician employment. 

We love the passive income and the FIRE (financial independence, retire early) movements. Their proponents continue to teach us so much! However, we find that many of our colleagues enjoy the satisfaction of a hard day's work and want to continue working. Unfortunately, the medical education pipeline is geared toward clinical and/or academic practice and it offers very little information about alternative careers. We plan to help fill in the backstory for a variety of fascinating careers open to physicians. 

We hope you enjoy our podcast! 

Willing to share your story? Have questions or comments?  
Contact us at: 

[email protected] 
@ActiveIncomeMD 
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