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In S7 E 7 I am delighted to welcome Rob Orman, MD to the podcast.

Dr Orman is a physician coach and former emergency physician with two decades of clinical experience. He is the author of Supranormal: A Field Guide to Navigating the Impossible Job and helps doctors get unstuck, recover from burnout, and build careers worth staying in.

He is the host of Stimulus, a top-ranked medical podcast on resilience and career design for physicians, and an ICF-certified coach who has logged thousands of hours helping physicians navigate conflict, behavioral challenges, and major career transitions. Rob co-founded Guidewire Coaching, previously served as chief editor of EM:RAP, and for nearly a decade hosted Essentials of Emergency Medicine, the world's largest single-track emergency medicine conference. He was also a technical advisor on the Emmy-winning HBO series The Pitt.

In this episode, we talk about:

•       Building a career you do not need to recover from - sustainability, longevity and flourishing rather than merely surviving

•       Working ON your career, not just in it - are you renting or owning your career?

•       Afterburn, and the distinction between healthy concern and unhealthy rumination

•       The Supranormal Paradox - self-preservation reads as selfish in a culture that rewards self-sacrifice

•       Grit that saves, grit that buries - the same tool, two very different outcomes

•       Parasympathetic nurturing and self-care as an essential and trainable skill.

Thank you Rob for this coaching conversation and the new book which has given me more practical tools to take to my practice individually and with clinicians. 

Links:

Rob's podcast, Stimulus: wherever you listen to podcasts

Supranormal: A Field Guide to Navigating the Impossible Job: https://roborman.com/supranormal/

Guidewire Coaching: https://guidewirecoaching.com/

Unburnable — Anti-Burnout Cohort Course: https://guidewirecoaching.com/

Out On Time — Asynchronous Shift Efficiency Course: https://guidewirecoaching.com/oot/

The Awake + Aware Retreat (annual retreat): https://awake.guidewirecoaching.com/

The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au

Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not  necessarily reflect those of  our employers or other official organisations. 

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In S7 E 6 I am delighted welcome Dr Catherine Olweny (BA(Hons), BMBS, MA, MCoun, FANZCA, AFRACMA, Diploma Clinical Hypnosis, Graduate Certificate Therapeutic Child Play) to the podcast. Dr Olweny is a Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist. Her clinical interests focus on the prevention and management of procedural anxiety and distress in children, and on reducing the risk of medical trauma through trauma-informed healthcare practices. She is a strong advocate for trauma-informed systems in healthcare delivery, trauma-informed approaches to clinical education, and wellness-centred leadership in healthcare organisations. She holds a Master of Arts in French Studies from the University of New England and a Master of Counselling from Monash University. She is also trained in Clinical Hypnosis and Therapeutic Child Play. In addition to her anaesthesia practice, Catherine is a registered counsellor and provides therapy to paediatric patients. She also offers supportive counselling for senior medical staff, international medical graduates, doctors in training, and medical students. Additional Dr Olweny serves as a Board Director of The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation and the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (RACMA), where she chairs the Finance and Audit Committee.

In this episode, which continues our series theme of communication at every level in healthcare, we talk about:

•       Lifelong learning, curiosity, hypnosis and Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS)

•       Narrative medicine and the stories we tell ourselves and receive from our patients

•       Insights from the Stanford Chief Wellness Officer course, and organisational wellbeing and governance

Key Takeaways:

•       The power of "What?" questions and the shift from “Do you have any questions for me?” to “What questions do you have for me?” to maintain an open and curious dialogue.

•       The VTS three-question framework: What is going on here? What makes you say that? What more can we find? and applying visual thinking strategies to our communication with patients and colleagues. 

•       Clinician wellbeing is a KPI built at every level, from individual to the boardroom in healthcare

•       The Pillars of presence: mindful self-awareness, curiosity, humility and  compassion for self and others

Thank you Catherine for continuing to positively stretch my thinking, learning and practice. 

Links/Reference and to learn more about Catherine and her work: 

https://counselling4kids.com.au/dr-catherine-olweny/

https://counselling4docs.com.au/our-team/

Catherine's recent podcast/webinar/workshop  series appearance as visiting fellow of Commonweal New School : https://tns.commonweal.org/podcasts/catherine-olweny/

Learn more: Visual Thinking Strategies Institute 

https://vtshome.org/

Related Episodes:

Prof Tait Shanafelt — Designing Occupational Wellbeing (Season 7, Episode 1): https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/designing-evidence-informed-occupational-wellbeing/id1513559414?i=1000771941730

Dr Daniel Murphy — Wellness-Centred Leadership (Season 3, Episode 9): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wellness-centred-leadership-with-dr-daniel-murphy-md/id1513559414?i=1000578350874

Dr Bethan Richards — Leadership, Strategy and Innovation (Season 5, Episode 11): https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/episodes/15672714

The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au

Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not  necessarily reflect those of  our employers or other official organisations. 

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In S7 E 5 I am delighted to welcome Dr Andrew Tagg to continue our theme of communication and expand or thinking and doing in presenting. 

Andrew is an emergency physician with a special interest in paediatrics, and one of the co-founders of the website Don't Forget The Bubbles. He wears many hats with a portfolio career that spans clinical medicine, workforce wellbeing leadership, education and research and as faculty for the DFTB international conference and globally renowned paediatric education platform. Andrew  spends much of his time thinking, and now writing, about the art and practice of effective  communication in medicine and healthcare. In this conversation we dive deeper into his most recent creation Speak Human, a newsletter dedicated to this topic.

We explore some of the frameworks, practical ideas and content of his newsletter and workshops. He challenges some of our ( my) pre-existing thinking and practice in this area and I left with truly practical and actionable ideas to work with.

Some of my takeaways on Speaking Human and Building a Talk That Lands 

• Start with the message -  what are the one or two things you actually want them to take away? Distil ruthlessly. No pain by PowerPoint.
• Use What → So What → Now What to build and test every point. Rather than “what do I want to say?” start asking “what do I want them to hear and why should they care?”
• Make it concrete, not abstract - a can of cola communicates a newborn's circulating blood volume better than any number does
• Audiences feel your nervous system before they hear your words - manage your own state first.
• The Power of the Pause - silence can one of the hardest but most powerful tools a speaker has
• Use AI as a tool to augment your content and make resources more accessible to your audience. 
•    Fundamentally you are not the audience, and you're there to serve them - know what you want them to learn, feel, and take away, and make it easy for them

Thank you Andrew. I learned so much in this session. You can learn more from Andrew and about his work by subscribing to his Speak Human Newsletter linked below. 

Links and References:

Speak Human newsletter: https://www.andrewjtagg.com/newsletter

The infamous Lego study: 

“Everything is awesome: Don't forget the Lego” — Tagg, A., Roland, D., Leo, G.S., Knight, K., Goldstein, H., Davis, T. and on behalf of Don't Forget The Bubbles (2019), J Paediatr Child Health, 55: 921-923: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpc.14309

Andrew's Emotional Contagion Talk:

Don't Forget The Bubbles — “Mirror, Mirror”: https://dontforgetthebubbles.com/mirror-mirror/

Access the full context from CCIM 2026 including the audio context from Andrew's workshop "Speak So People Listen"

Creative Careers in Medicine 2026 — Metamorphosis: https://creativecareersinmedicine.vhx.tv/checkout/ccim-2026-metamorphosis/purchase

The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au

Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not  necessarily reflect those of  our employers or other official organisations. 

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S 7 E 4 I am delighted to welcome Dr Michael Bonning to the podcast.

 Dr Bonning is a Sydney GP, with two decades of leadership across the AMA, AMSA, the RACGP and doctors' health. His clinical career has included Indigenous health, a career as a medical officer in the Royal Australian Navy, general practice ownership and management and COVID responses. He has made doctors' health a career-long focus, including as an inaugural director of the National Doctors' Health Service, six years on the board of Beyond Blue and as a director of hand n hand peer support. Michael is now running for Federal President of the AMA, on a platform to protect the value of doctors and the undermining of expertise, the importance of Medicare as a true safety net, the need to protect clinical independence and give doctors one clear, unified voice.

In this episode, we talk about:

•       Michael's two decades of leadership across the AMA, AMSA and RACGP, and his campaign for Federal AMA President

•       Communicating under pressure in healthcare from the media spotlight to earning public trust

•       The fight against mis- and disinformation in healthcare

•       Public health and prevention the upstream social and commercial determinants of health, and the core pillars of prevention.

• Doctors' Health Advocacy as a strategic imperative not nice to have, optional extra.

Key Takeaways — Communicating with Media:

•       Prepare - know your material before you say yes to an interview

•       Find out what matters - understand what the journalist or audience actually needs

•       Be measured, and ground your conversation in the science and the evidence

•       Phone a friend - check in with a trusted colleague before high-stakes media

•       Determine if you're the best person to give the advice

•       Don't become the story - keep the focus on the issue, not on yourself

Thank you Michael your skilled and purpose driven leadership and support for your colleagues and patients and our healthcare system at large is the consistent thread running through this conversation. 

Links:

Michael's LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/michaelbonning

Creative Careers in Medicine Conference 2026 (CCIM), Gold Coast QT, 4–5 September: https://events.humanitix.com/ccim2026

The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au

Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not  necessarily reflect those of  our employers or other official organisations. 

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In S7 E3 is a full circle moment for me as I get to welcome Dr Andrew Davies to the show. Andrew is my podcast mentor and has been instrumental in helping me get started and as an ongoing source of support and wise council. I could not think of a better guest given this season's theme of communication in medicine. 

Andrew has been an intensive care medicine specialist for  over three decades.  He experienced a period of severe depletion and burnout mid-life, mid-career  at a time of overcommitment to his research career. He describes the personal and professional growth that followed and now recounts this as an experience that reshaped his entire approach to medicine and life. Today he works at Peninsula University Hospital, where he is passionate about delivering compassionate, human-centred intensive care while actively supporting the wellbeing and development of fellow clinicians. Andrew hosts his own very successful podcast, Mastering Intensive Care  which recently reached 100 episodes. Here he faciliates deeply reflective conversations with his colleagues in critical care. It's a fantastic series and I heave learned a lot from Andrew and his guests to date. 

In this episode, we talk about:

 •       Listening as a skill  and why it matters as much in medicine as anywhere else. 

•       Our own experiences of mid-career and mid-life burnout, and re-learning how we approach self-care and regulation as an  intentional practice and ever evolving skillset.

•       The core pillars of wellbeing -movement, food, sleep, stress regulation and connection. Mindfulness as a muscle and the skill of making and protecting space for what matters. 

•       Individual versus systemic approaches to wellbeing in healthcare, and why both matter.

•       Running, ultra endurance feats and what these teach us about community, connection, and capacity for joy. 

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.”

— Howard Thurman

Links:

Andrew's podcast, Mastering Intensive Care: https://masteringintensivecare.libsyn.com

Upcoming Community Events:

Dr Dominique Lee — Book Launch, hosted by Dr Cheryl Martin. Melbourne, 15 August 2026, 3pm, Langham Hotel. https://events.humanitix.com/what-s-been-broken-is-all-the-more-sharp-or-book-tour-in-melbourne

CCIM Conference — Gold Coast, QT, 4–5 September 2026. https://events.humanitix.com/ccim2026

The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au

Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not  necessarily reflect those of  our employers or other official organisations. 

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S7 E2 Some conversations on this podcast carry more weight than others. This is one of them.

Dr Yoo Young (Dominique) Lee is a radiation oncologist, educator, researcher, and the author of What's Been Broken Is All the More Sharp,  a memoir that breaks a decade of silence about sexual assault within the medical profession, and examines what survivorship can look like inside a system that still struggles to acknowledge the harm it permits.

When Dominique reached out to come on the podcast in the lead-up to her book's release it was an unequivocal yes from me. What followed was a conversation that took a deeply human direction.

This is not a story of personal triumph. It is, as Dominique herself frames it, a relocation of shame from those who have been wrongly carrying it, onto the people and systems that should have been carrying it all along. It is also a love letter to the colleagues and friends who held her, and a call to every listener to consider whether they can be that person for someone else.

Among the threads we explore:

• The arc from a decade of silence to a tweet, a Guardian interview, and now a book and an active campaign for independent reporting of workplace misconduct in medicine
• Dominique's team of avengers and empathy warriors, the people she credits with her being alive today, and what their actions tell us about what it means to be an upstander and critical supporter.
• The culture of medicine more broadly and how we measure a "good" clinician
• Her presentation and advocacy work on how the system fails victims of abuse in medicine
• The work of HeyBoss! her physician wellbeing initiative, dedicated to helping doctors thrive through connection, purpose, and personal growth
• Why so few survivors of medical mistreatment remain, and what the profession owes those who did not stay
• The mission to support the people in medicine who feel like misfits. Something I now consider closer to the norm than the exception.

This is a conversation about what medicine has refused to address. It is, also, a conversation about the people who refused to look away. Thank you Dominique for reminding me why this podcast exists.

Content note

This episode discusses sexual assault, harassment and abuse in medicine, and suicide. Please take care of yourself as you listen. If you need to step away, the conversation will be here when you're ready.

Resources

If you need support right now

• Australia · 1800RESPECT · 1800 737 732 · 24/7 — https://www.1800respect.org.au
• UK · Rape Crisis England & Wales · 0808 500 2222 — https://rapecrisis.org.uk
• USA · RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline · 1-800-656-4673 — https://www.rainn.org
• New Zealand · Safe to Talk · 0800 044 334 — https://safetotalk.nz
• Canada · Ending Violence Association of Canada — https://endingviolencecanada.org

If you're a doctor seeking confidential support

• Australia · Drs4Drs — https://www.drs4drs.com.au - call 1300-374-377 for assistance
• USA · Physician Support Line · 1-888-409-0141 — https://www.physiciansupportline.com
• UK · Doctors in Distress — https://doctors-in-distress.org.uk

Dominique's work

• Dr Dominique Lee · website — https://drdominiquelee.com/
• HeyBoss! — https://heyboss.org/
• What's Been Broken Is All the More Sharp · Simon & Schuster Australia — https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Whats-Been-Broken-Is-All-the-More-Sharp/Dominique-(Yoo-Young)-Lee/9781764372336

Further reading on culture and safety in medicine

• Sexual Harassment Between Doctors: Healing Medical Cultures Around the World · edited by Prof Louise Stone (Cambridge University Press) · with foreword by Dr Dominique Lee — https://www.cambridge.org/au/universitypress/subjects/law/medico-legal-bioethics-and-health-law/sexual-harassment-between-doctors-healing-medical-cultures-around-world?format=PB&isbn=9781009673068
• SafeDr · Prof Leanne Rowe · empowering doctors to uphold human rights in healthcare under WHS laws — https://safedr.org

The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au

Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not  necessarily reflect those of  our employers or other official organisations. 

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Welcome to Season 7 Episode 1 in conversation with Professor Tait Shanafelt, Chief Wellness Officer, Associate Dean, and the Jeanie & Stewart Ritchie Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford WellMD & WellPhD Center.

Across more than two decades and several hundred peer-reviewed papers, Tait’s work has fundamentally reshaped how medicine understands itself,  shifting the conversation from “fix the doctor” to “fix the system.” His papers have been referenced in more episodes of this podcast, and more generally, than any other voice in the field. 

We begin with the conceptual shift that transitioned physician wellbeing from a personal and individual problem to an organisational responsibility referencing 2017 Nine Organizational Strategies paper. Post-pandemic The Wellbeing 2.0 paper reflected on where we have been, where we are and where we are headed.

With this frame in mind we discuss the update in research, thinking and practice through the published 2025 Ten Principles to Advance Occupational Well-being paper, This article provides an organisation-facing guidebook for leaders that concentrates decades of evidence into ten foundational principles. There is a deliberate language shift from physician wellbeing to occupational wellbeing across the whole healthcare workforce. We zoom in from the strategic-systems lens to the practical work of unit-level leadership, evidence-informed tactics, and the day-to-day realities of work-life integration.

We close on the  five-part Career Life Cycle series, published this year, that charts the influences on wellbeing across the arc of a career, from residency and fellowship through early, mid, and late career into retirement. There are unique challenges at each stage but across the whole arc, the fundamental drivers of wellbeing are similar: autonomy, meaning, community, connection. 

Along the way, we discuss the iteration and evolution of the Chief Wellness Officer and Wellbeing Director courses out of Stanford WellMD  pathways into this work that have shaped and continue to advance a generation of leaders globally. 

References

The 2025 paper at the centre of the conversation

Shanafelt T, Trockel M, Stolz S, Murphy D, Bohman B. Ten Principles to Advance Occupational Well-being in Health Care Organizations. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2025;100(6):995–1004. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2025.03.026

Landmark papers

Shanafelt TD, Noseworthy JH. Executive Leadership and Physician Well-being: Nine Organizational Strategies. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2017;92(1):129–146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2016.10.004

Shanafelt TD. Physician Well-being 2.0: Where Are We and Where Are We Going? Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2021;96(10):2682–2693. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2021.06.005

The five-part Career Life Cycle series (2025–2026)

Thomas LR, Brigham T, Shanafelt T. Residency and Fellowship: Fostering Physician Well-being Over the Career Life Cycle. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2025;100(9):1649–1659. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2025.05.024

Rotenstein L, Harry E, Shanafelt T. The Early Career Phase: Fostering Physician Well-being Over the Career Life Cycle.Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2025;100(10):1836–1845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2025.05.025

Ligibel JA, Awad K, Shanafelt T. Mid-Career: Fostering Physician Well-being Over the Career Life Cycle. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2025;100(11):2007–2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2025.05.026

Frey K, Arata M, Shanafelt T. Late Career: Fostering Physician Well-being Over the Career Life Cycle. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2025;100(12):2255–2261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2025.05.028

Brower KJ, Litt IF, Shanafelt TD. Retirement: Fostering Physician Well-being Over the Career Life Cycle. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2026;101(1):179–186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2025.05.027

Stanford WellMD course and education information discussed in the episode

•      Stanford WellMD & WellPhD Center  —  https://wellmd.stanford.edu

•      Stanford Chief Wellness Officer Course  —https://wellmd.stanford.edu/knowledge-hub/courses-conferences/cwo-course.html

•      Stanford Wellbeing Director Course  —  https://wellmd.stanford.edu/knowledge-hub/courses-conferences/directorcourse.html

The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au

Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not  necessarily reflect those of  our employers or other official organisations. 

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After a deliberate pause it's great to be back with Season 7.  This trailer episode introduces and sets the scene for the season and what you can expect. Thanks for listening. 

The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au

Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not  necessarily reflect those of  our employers or other official organisations. 

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In season 6 Episode 6  I am delighted to welcome Graham Walker, MD to the podcast. Dr Walker is an emergency physician by clinical background who practices in San Francisco, completing his medical school training at Stanford University School of Medicine. He also majored in social policy as an undergraduate and has had a life long interest in software development and digital technology. Today he combines these interests and skills in his clinical and non-clinical roles.

Graham is the co-director of Advanced Development at The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG), which delivers care for Kaiser Permanente’s 4.6 million members in Northern California. At TPMG, Graham works on practical AI development, commercialization, partnerships, and technology transformation under the Chief Innovation Officer. As a clinical informaticist, he also leads emergency and urgent care strategy for KP’s electronic medical record. 

With an appetite and aptitude for tech innovation and entrepreneurship Dr Walker created and founded MDCalc as a resident, a free online clinical decision support tool many clinicians including myself have been using for years now, indeed MDCalc turned 20 this month.

More recently Graham co-founded the platform and community  Offcall with a mission to bring joy back to medicine and facilitate contract transparency and financial literacy for US medical practitioners. 

These two online resources are dedicated to helping physicians globally.  In his free time Graham writes about the intersection of AI, technology, and medicine, and created The Physicians’ Charter for Responsible AI, a practical guide to implementing safe, accurate, and fair AI in healthcare settings.

In this conversation I have an opportunity to explore Dr Walkers perspective at the intersection of AI, technology and medicine and revisit some emerging themes from season 6 in relation to leading change and innovation in complex, siloed healthcare systems.  We discuss the challenges of communicating change efforts in this context and Graham shares his practical pearls for elevating clinical voices and translating information across disparate stakeholder groups. 

With a unique leadership role in his own organisation in this space I was keen to explore his perspectives on creating opportunities for intrapreneurship. Dr Walker is a globally respective clinical voice on AI in healthcare and we discuss the perils and promise of AI , the Physician Charter for responsible use of AI in medicine and his Offcall survey and  pending report on physicians views on the technology application and implementation in medicine ( now published and linked below) 

Finally it is Graham's mission to bring joy and humanity back to medicine and to use technology responsibly to augment the clinician experience and skillset enabling safer and higher quality care that is the major draw for me.  Thank you Dr Walker for you work which has global relevance and reach.

Links / References:

https://drgrahamwalker.com

https://www.offcall.com

https://www.offcall.com/learn/podcast

https://physicianscharter.ai

https://2025-physicians-ai-report.offcall.com

https://www.mdcalc.com

The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au

Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not  necessarily reflect those of  our employers or other official organisations. 

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I'm delighted to be back with S6 E9 and to welcome Associate Professor Vikram Palit to the podcast. Vikram is a Paediatric Respiratory Physician by clinical background and a Senior Lecturer in Health Systems science. He has held senior leadership roles across academia, clinical medicine and health services in Australia and the United Kingdom. He is also the founder and CEO of ConsultMed https://www.consultmed.co/about-us/ Consultmed brings together his passion for healthcare and embracing technology to deliver better outcomes for his patients. When he is not in a team huddle, a design workshop or doing a solution demo, you can find him quietly unplugging fax machines in hospitals and clinics near you.  Indeed in this episode he makes a compelling case to #axethefax.

In this conversation I have an opportunity to dive deeper into Vik's journey so far as clinician, health systems scientist and entrepreneur trying to solve real world clinical problems with modern technology solutions.

He discusses his previous academic studies and practical on the job exposure to health systems change, value-based care and digital health in the UK NHS and how this served as a catalyst for his founder story.

We learn more about the nuts and bolts of Consultmed including the core offering Advice and Guidance and how this can positively impact the healthcare referral landscape. We reference the recent Grattan Report on specialist referrals and the RACGP Heath of the Nation Report 2025.

Vik discusses the application and potential of embedding AI tools in the Consultmed platform and where he sees the future opportunities of the technology.  We revisit past podcast themes of the challenges of clinical entrepreneurship and "intra"preneurship and his insights as a CEO and founder in this space. His passion, energy and mission-driven dedication to his work and team permeates this entire conversation and I look forward to following the next chapter of the Consultmed story. Thank you Vik!

Links References:

https://www.consultmed.co/about-us/

https://grattan.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Grattan-Institute-Special-Treatment.pdf

https://www.racgp.org.au/FSDEDEV/media/documents/Health-of-the-Nation-2025.pdf

 Vik's book/ article recommendations:

https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/implementing-value-based-healthcare/

https://hbr.org/2013/10/the-strategy-that-will-fix-health-care

The Mind Full Medic Podcast is proudly sponsored by the MBA NSW-ACT Find out more about the charitable organisation supporting doctors and their families and/ or donate today at www.mbansw.org.au

Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not  necessarily reflect those of  our employers or other official organisations.