Private Equity in Private Practice, Protector or Pillager? with AJ Shekar and Scott Davis of Provident Healthcare Partners
Physician's Guide to Doctoring with Bradley B. Block, MD
Release Date: 01/14/2022
Noisy Breathers and Snotty Noses: Pediatric ENT with Gopi Shah, MD
Physician's Guide to Doctoring with Bradley B. Block, MD
Gopi Shah is a Pediatric Otolaryngologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. She did her residency in otolaryngology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia and her fellowship in peds at UT Southwestern. Her clinical interests are pediatric sinus and skull base. She loves teaching and is the fellowship director for pediatric otolaryngology. She is also a co-host for the BackTable ENT podcast. We talk a little about the podcast and then get into snotty, stuffy, noisy pediatric ENT problems, like what OTC medications she gives her kids...
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Does Everyone Have Pencillin Allergy? Does Anyone? with Payel Gupta, MD
Physician's Guide to Doctoring with Bradley B. Block, MD
On today’s show we speak to allergist, Dr. Payel Gupta about penicillin allergy. Dr. Gupta is triple board certified in Allergy & Immunology, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine and currently has a practice at Ease Allergy in Brooklyn. We discuss how common penicillin allergy is and how commonly the diagnosis is incorrect. She goes through the four types of hypersensitivity reaction, and then focus in on type I, the IgE-mediated reaction. We go through presentation, treatment, and some commonly confused conditions. She teaches us how penicillin testing is done, why...
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How to Build a Winning Team with Aaron Fritts, MD, of Backtable
Physician's Guide to Doctoring with Bradley B. Block, MD
Dr. Aaron Fritts is a co-founder of BackTable and a practicing Interventional Radiologist in Dallas, Texas. Early in his practice, Dr. Fritts realized the need for centralized, in-depth procedure and device information that his peers could access on the fly. Not long after, BackTable was born. Backtable is a podcasting brand for physician education, which started as interventional radiology and now also includes ENT, urology and their newest podcast, innovation, for physician entrepreneurs. We talk about the origin of the backtable, where he sees it evolving, what will happen if he starts...
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WTF PSLF?! with Michael Foley CFP
Physician's Guide to Doctoring with Bradley B. Block, MD
Michael Foley is a comprehensive financial advisor who runs his practice out of Scottsdale, Arizona, under North Star Resource Group. Michael was trained at Duke University and holds his Certified Financial Planner designation alongside his Certified Student Loan Professional designation. Although Michael serves a diverse group of clients with their financial and student loan needs, with two physician parents, Michael has found a specialty in working with those in the healthcare space. He helps clarify what the heck is going on with PSLF and what this waiver is all about, as well as other...
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Get Organized for Better Work-Life Balance with Sarah Hart-Unger, MD
Physician's Guide to Doctoring with Bradley B. Block, MD
is a pediatric endocrinologist, who did all of her education at Duke, and is now the pediatric residency program director at Joe Dimaggio Children’s Hospital in South Florida. She is intrigued by the challenges of making work and life fit together — so much that she cohosts a podcast on the topic, , with time management expert and writer . She is married to a vascular surgeon and has three young children, so we discuss how they manage get it all done using the Getting Things Done methodology. We talk about how checklists aren’t just critical in central...
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Docs Should Borrow from Doc2DocLending Now with Zwade Marshall, MD, MBA
Physician's Guide to Doctoring with Bradley B. Block, MD
Zwade Marshall, MD, MBA is a co- founder/managing partner of Doc2DocLending and is principally involved with investor relations and business development. He is a Harvard-trained, double board certified anesthesiologist and interventional pain management specialist. He also serves as the Chief Medical Officer of Regenerative Spine and Pain in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Marshall got his MD/MBA from Emory and while there was awarded Emory’s Humanitarian of the Year Prize for his work with Pipeline, a longitudinal inner-city high school mentoring program. Dr. Marshall is the managing...
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How to Become the Next Millionaire Next Door
Physician's Guide to Doctoring with Bradley B. Block, MD
On today’s episode, we discuss the characteristics that predict an individual’s propensity to build wealth, why physicians have a bad reputation in this department and what we can do to improve, with industrial psychologist, Dr. Sarah Stanley Fallaw. Dr. Fallaw is the author of The Next Millionaire Next Door and the founder of DataPoints LLC, a research and technology company that provides advisors and individuals with behavioral science tools to achieve financial success. DataPoints created the industry's first assessment of individual propensity to build wealth based...
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This Pediatrician is a Sci-Fi Writer with Teresa Fuller, MD, PhD
Physician's Guide to Doctoring with Bradley B. Block, MD
On the heels of our interview with author Jack El-Hai, who teaches physicians creative writing as an outlet, we have pediatrician, speaker and sci-fi writer Dr. Teresa Fuller. Dr. Fuller received both her M.D. and Ph.D. at Howard University and has been a practicing pediatrician in the Maryland area for more than 20 years. In addition to full-time pediatric practice, Dr. Fuller has been a contributing health writer for The Baltimore Times and Demand Media. She is the author of Change 1 Thing: A Doctor's Guide to Permanent Weight Loss, Disease Prevention and a Lifetime of...
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Doctoring Through the Shouldstorm with Alison Escalante, MD
Physician's Guide to Doctoring with Bradley B. Block, MD
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 And her TEDx talk can be found at She did her undergrad at Princeton, studying Medieval Renaissance History, went to med school at Rutgers University-Robert Wood...
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Make Your Work Days Happy Days with Lara Hochman, MD, of Happy Day Health
Physician's Guide to Doctoring with Bradley B. Block, MD
Lara Hochman, MD is a Family Medicine physician, and advocate for fellow doctors' wellbeing amidst rising burnout and dissatisfaction. No, this is not another podcast about burnout. We are going to be talking about finding a practice you’ll love and on the other side, being the practice that other physicians will want to join and never leave. She founded Happy Day Health, a boutique physician matchmaking agency to match doctors with well run, physician-owned practices where they can have a voice and enjoy practicing medicine again. She gives us the perspectives of both the practice owner and...
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