High Impact Physician

Heard of the book “Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard” (by Chip and Dan Heath) but don’t have time to read it? Get the most important insights from someone who’s applied them in medicine, Dr. Cara Beatty. 
On this episode, she and Sandy dig into:

• Challenges between providers and their support staff
• How slowing down can lead to more alignment
• Why resistance to change is often due to a lack of clarity
• A better approach to big complicated problems (vs. assuming a big complicated solution is needed)
• The mental cost of doing things differently
• Three biggest takeaways from the book

Dr. Beatty has been a Physician Executive for over 20 years and is the CMO of  Northeast Washington at Providence Health. 

Heard of the book “How Will You Measure Your Life?” (by Clayton M. Christensen) but don’t have time to read it? Get the most important insights from someone who’s applied them in medicine, Dr. Jeremy Blanchard. 
On this episode, he and Sandy dig into:

• Deciding to leave a health system because of culture
• Cold calling 16 influential leaders for advice
• Why you should define your “north star” based on your motivators
• One way to help a friend along their journey
• Three biggest takeaways from the book

Dr. Jeremy Blanchard is the Chief Medical Officer of North Mississippi Health Services.

Heard of the book “The Obstacle is the Way” but don’t have time to read it?
Get the most important insights from someone who’s applied them in medicine, Dr. Mark Stephens. On this episode, he and Sandy dig into:

• A framework for more objective perception and action
• The skill of teasing out rationality and emotionality
• Practical ways Mark applied the lessons of the book in medicine

Dr. Mark Stephens is, among other things, the Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Professor of Humanities at Penn State.

Want to  give it a read? Click here to check out "The Obstacle is the Way"  on Amazon!

Dr. Katrina Ubell is a physician and master certified life coach specializing in helping women-identifying doctors who overeat.

Dr. Katrina Ubell and Sandy dig into:

• The power of a future focused mindset
• The root causes of emotional eating
• Auditing your relationship with food, especially during a pandemic
• Why constraints aren’t always restrictive
• A ton of practical tips for physicians who struggle with weight loss

Learn more about Katrina’s work here.

Dr. Patty Fahy's role as a clinician, a member of an executive team, and a leadership consultant has been focused on supporting people to make important and often difficult changes. She is the host of Licensed To Lead Podcast and a Keynote Speaker.

Dr. Patty Fahy and Sandy dig into:
- What to do when administrators don’t give you the full truth
- The power of a physician with a Business School Mindset
- Who are the masters of healthcare?
- Why you don’t need an MBA
- Questioning the dyad structure
- Practical ways to create a better culture, from the inside out

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Dr. John Gabis and Sandy Scott dig into:

• Moonlighting at his own practice
• The nuances of training residents to treat opioid use disorder
• Dealing with the fallout of embezzlement (with Gabis’ 3 S’s)
• Cooper-tition (cooperation + competition)
• Building a state-of-the-art simulation hospital in Appalachia
• Resources for physicians who want to govern themselves
• Chairing the Hope Partnership Project -- a local collaboration to eliminate Substance Abuse Disorder

Dr. John Gabis is the President at Adena Medical Group in Chillicothe, Ohio -- where he leads 300 colleagues to be the trusted first choice of patients for multi-specialty physician services in a nine county service area. He’s Board Certified in Family Medicine and a Certified Physician Executive.

Dr. Dan McCarter and Sandy Scott dig into:

• Leading the launch of an ACO (after calculating it would lose money)
• Shifting business models
• Adopting EMR before the internet
• How a temporary job turned into a 27 year practice
• Results of using a meditation app for over 170 days in a row

Dr. Dan McCarter is the National Director of Primary Care Advancement at ChenMed.

Dr. Dan Field and Sandy Scott dig into:

• Waldorf education
• Is there a positive side to Imposter Syndrome?
• Skill stacking -- how to combine your existing skills in a new way to provide unique value
• Taking 50 dying patients on an all-expenses-paid trip to France (annually)
• The satisfaction of getting one thing done early in the morning

Dr. Dan Field is the chief medical officer for MDstaffers, one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States.

Dr. Field is responsible for overseeing all clinical staff operations and quality assurance for MDstaffers. He provides clinical leadership to MDstaffers’ contract staff and assists in creating innovative staffing models to help healthcare facilities achieve optimal physician staffing levels while also upholding the highest quality standards in the ever-present physician shortage. Dr. Field is an emergency physician by training and has practiced emergency medicine for more than 30 years. Dr. Field is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and maintains an active clinical practice.

Dr. Field is an instructor at the California Northstate University College of Medicine and previously served as clinical faculty at UC Davis School of Medicine for 25 years. Dr. Field serves the California Medical Board as an expert reviewer/consultant and provided medical expertise to the Sacramento County Sheriff SED/SWAT team as a Reserve Deputy Sheriff.

Dr. Field received his medical degree from the University of California at San Francisco, completed an internship at Highland Hospital in Oakland and residency at University Hospital in Cincinnati. Dr. Field has an active California medical license. He has experience practicing in resource-rich, urban hospitals as well as under-served, rural, critical-access facilities. Dr. Field also has extensive experience in telemedicine and telehealth staffing.

Dr. Field has served as an expert witness for cases involving personal injury, criminal law, standard of care, and malpractice. He has also been a featured speaker, panelist, media physician, and talk show guest.

Specialties: Emergency Medicine, Urgent Care, Emergency Department, Triage, Remote and Rural Medicine, Expert Witness, Peer Review, Personal Injury, Product Liability, Criminal, Malpractice, Employment, strangulation, assault, trauma, domestic violence, stabbing, gunshot wounds, forensic medicine, medicolegal, locum tenens, physician staffing, telemedicine, telehealth, managed services

Dr. Brent Jackson is BACK, to dig into:

• Most surprising parts of getting an MBA
• Designing a physician leadership program with no budget constraints
• The core strategies of “pandemic management”
• Unexpected benefits of sending out a Friday Newsletter -- and how to make one yourself

Brent Jackson is the VP/Chief Medical Officer at Dignity Health, Mercy General Hospital. He is a Physician executive experienced with inpatient/outpatient Utilization Management, physician leadership, quality/process improvement, and organizational change. Check him out on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjacksonmd/