Doctors Take the Mic

Most commonly information assets are hacked by ransomware, misconfiguration, credential stuffing, or social engineering. Watch out for phishing and emails asking for money or your login data. Some IT security experts predict Blockchain Technology will be able to prevent hacking. In Blockchain Technology, the data is decentralized and stored in nodes.

Watch out for cybersecurity. This is an ongoing threat. HIPAA protects patient data, but what about other data points? If hacked, the hospital can lose millions of dollars in repairing the hack, or class action lawsuits can worsen the profit margin of healthcare systems.

"Shedding Light on Uveal Melanoma" talks about the need to visit an eyeMD or ophthalmologist once a year. The eyeMD goes to medical school and can diagnose hypertension, diabetes, tumors in your eye before it becomes too late. So often, patients have a small lesion and it is ignored for many years and then it becomes a cancer. Make sure you and your loved one gets a dilated eye exam every few years so that there is a clean bill of health. The tumors in the eye can be avoided!

"**Bridging the Gap: Gender Pay Equity with statistics US Department of Labor**" is an enlightening podcast that delves into the persistent issue of gender pay disparity in the workforce. Whether you're an employer, employee, or simply someone interested in social justice, "Bridging the Gap" offers valuable insight about women and their pay level. If your mother ever worked and if you have daughters who worked, depending on the times, pay equity has remained a problem. Ghe Department of Labor has a toolkit to explore gender pay equity.

"Gender Equity in Health Profession" is the continuation of a series of gender pay equity. Women in medicine who want to rise up within the academic hierarchy need to write 8 papers per year. I learned of this statistic 5 years ago. no one had told me for many years! Unless the woman has many publications per year, the woman physician in academic medicine does not rise up the ladder.

So how does one write 8 papers per year? Need a lab, need fellows, residents, research fellows. How do you pay for this on your academic salary based on patient care? Aha! You need grants. This is a chicken and egg problem. If you have no papers, you cannot apply for grants. And you need grants to write papers. Find out how to navigate this world.

"Gender Equity and Academic Medicine" is a thought-provoking podcast about women in medical centers and universities. There is a paucity of role models. There is a lack of interest in promoting women as competition is everywhere. The women do not know how to go beyond the very first rung of academic medicine. There are perceived glass ceilings. From the point of view of the male department chairs, the men feel that there are plenty of programs but their women colleagues do not apply. Most feel that role models are important for women to succeed in academic medicine.

"Women Pay Equity: Unveiling the Gap" is a pay equity for women physicians. We uncover the challenges women face in their life cycle, pregnancy, childbearing, sandwich generation, all while being women physicians. These stages of life may or may not be barriers for all women. However, childbearing does play a role in the career of women physicians in the US and abroad. "Women Pay Equity: Unveiling the Gap" offers a look into a pressing socioeconomic problem of the 21st century.

The podcast where innovation meets health. In this episode, we look at the groundbreaking technology of AliveCor's Kardia ECG. This device would be particularly useful in people with cryptogenic stroke. Dr. Wu used it herself and she loved the ease and accuracy. She talked to Dr. Paul Wang, Chief of Cardiac Electrophysiology at Stanford, and he agreed. Discover how this compact, user-friendly device is revolutionizing the way we monitor heart health from the comfort of our homes. We'll explore its features, including its ability to detect atrial fibrillation, bradycardia, tachycardia, and more, all with clinical-grade accuracy. It is portable, the size of a credit card. Dr. Wu purchased the smaller version that is half the size of a credit card but is thicker. Dr. Wu has no financial interest in Kardia.

"Cryptogenic Stroke" dives into the enigmatic world of strokes with loss of vision and retinal emboli. Each episode of this informative podcast series sheds light on cryptogenic stroke, which accounts for about 30% of ischemic strokes annually. It can affect people age 40-50 years old, younger than the stroke demographic. Causes can include heart disease.

The "4 Health Sector Stocks" are 1)Drugs, 2) Medical Devices, 3)Payer Stocks, and 4) Healthcare Provider Stocks. This podcast talks about the influential companies within the health sector. From the physician's point of view, how will these sectors rise to the challenges of the 21st century in terms of health and disease.