The Balanced Medics' Handover Podcast
Are you a health professional seeking change in your work life? If so, this is the right podcast for you. The Handover looks to explore the journeys of people who have changed their life within health through beating burnout, changing specialities, going non-clinical or doing something completely different! The options are limitless. Your host, Isabella, has transitioned from clinical to non-clinical work and hopes to help in your transition to find a life that is right for you. Visit https://balancedmedics.com to find out more!
Episodes
2024 was a great year for The Handover Podcast. Let's see some of the highlights.
Stay tuned for part two!
Dr Sarah Wittry is a hospice & palliative medicine physician, coach, and podcaster who lives in Columbus, Ohio. She's on to discuss her unique journey in medicine, how she navigated overwhelm and burnout, and found greater balance in her life. She's also a wife, mother of four kids, and she is passionate about so many things in life (like yoga, travelling, and nature).
We discuss:
- How experiencing burnout led Sarah to see...
In this conversation, we're lucky to have Dr Jill Gamberg, Dr Adam Harrison, and Dr Urszula Carr on to discuss coaching for doctors.
Jill is a GP, lifestyle medicine specialist, and coach. Adam is a doctor, lawyer, and coach. Urszula is a pathologist and coach.
It's great to have such a wide variety of backgrounds on to discuss what coaching is, the benefits, and why it's useful to have a doctor who coaches for other do...
Dr Jason Lam shares his journey from being a professional dancer to pursuing a career in medicine. He explains how he transitioned from dance to medicine due to a collapsed lung and the limited opportunities in the dance industry. Jason highlights the importance of shaping one's practice and finding a balance between work and personal life.
We discuss:
- Jason's unique journey before medicine and within medicine
- Shaping ...
Shem is back to share more on his life and new book.
Tune in to hear about his colourful life and how he managed to write and practice medicine for over 20 years.
This episode we have Dr Joy Hussain on to share her unique journey in and outside medicine. From engineering, to remote medicine in Australia & Alaska, to a PhD in sauna therapy...Joy shows you can change lanes in medicine multiple times.
We discuss:
- Moving countries as a doctor and the challenges associated with it
- Remote medicine
- Leaving one opportunity to make space for another
- Sauna therapy and the benefits of s...
Dr Folusho "Foley" Tugbiyele is an Obstetrician & Gynaecologist from Atlanta, Georgia with a special interest in Urogynaecology. He's also an entrepreneur & intrapreneur and believes that intrapreneurship can help prevent burnout.
We discuss:
- What intrapreneurship is
- How to negotiate
- Ways we can reclaim our time
- His journey to entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship
Dr Hana Ali, the founder of HealthCareer Transitions, is on the pod today to speak all about her unique journey in and outside medicine. Dr Hana decided to pursue a career outside of clinical medicine in her final year of medical school.
We discuss:
- Dealing with unsolicited advice
- The decision to work outside of clinical medicine
- Entrepreneurship & tech startups
- The importance of community
- Trusting your own decisions ...
We are lucky to have the wise and powerful Dr Stacia Dearmin on the pod to discuss adverse outcomes, medical errors, and litigation.
Dr Dearmin is a paediatrician, speaker, coach, and a doctor who had her own experience with an unexpected patient death and malpractice litigation. Dr Dearmin turned this harrowing experience into Thrive, a business aimed at letting physicians know they're not alone and helping doctors learn how t...
Dr Jessica Wade is a Noongar woman now living on Bundjalung country (Northern Rivers Region, NSW) who is a mother, medical doctor, sex therapist, and founder of Living a Turned on Life. Her business, Living a Turned on Life is all about reclaiming joy, pleasure, and connection with yourself. Our conversation gets deep as we discuss burnout, healing as a healer, finding the path in medicine right for us, and being brave to go agains...
Dr. Samantha Benjamin-Allen is a board-certified physician in physical medicine and rehabilitation. She started her own business after witnessing the unnecessary decline and complications that can occur as an inpatient. Her business provides specialised care and treatment plans to help individuals recover and thrive at home.
We discuss:
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation can help individuals go from tragedy to triumph and r...
A quick episode on how we can all work with our inner critic. That pesky critical voice that we all have.
Using coaching knowledge, from training with The Co-Active Training Institute, Dr Isabella covers what the inner critic is, how we can identify it, and then work with it.
For coaching with Isabella go to balancedmedics.com/coaching
Dr. Maryam Baqir shares her journey from growing up in Pakistan to becoming a physician in New York. Dr. Baqir opens up about her experience of burnout and shares her journey of finding joy in medicine. Dr. Baqir also explains her transition from being a hospitalist to primary care, driven by her passion for preventive care and helping patients proactively maintain their health.
We discuss
- Experiencing burnout after yea...
Dr. Catherine Kizana is an Emergency Medicine Specialist and Parenting Coach. We're lucky to have her on to share her journey through medicine, parenting, and postnatal depression. Dr Kizana sees her experience being admitted in a mother and baby psychiatric unit for 5 weeks as the hardest thing she's ever been through and the greatest gift. From this difficult time, her company ABC Parenting was founded so that she can hel...
Dr. Phillippa Smith shares her journey from surgical training (SET program) to medical administration training (RACMA), highlighting the possibility of changing career paths at any point. She discusses her background in science and academia, her transition to government work, and her decision to pursue medicine. Dr. Smith also explains her initial interest in surgery, the process of applying to the surgical training program, and th...
Dr Sarah Arachchi is a paediatrician, soon to be author, speaker, mother of two boys and a strong advocate for women. She has organised conferences and events for medical parents and currently co-convenes the RACP educational sessions for paediatricians as well as being a member of the AMA Women in medicine committee.
We discuss:
- How mentorship and support are crucial in a medical career
- Being a parent and a doctor
- Fert...
Dr Adaira Landry is an Emergency Medicine Physician, and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School with almost a decade of experience mentoring students and early-career professionals. She is an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and mentor. She co-founded Writing in Color, a nonprofit that teaches the craft of writing.
Dr Resa E. Lewiss is a Professor of Emergency Medicine, TEDMed speaker, designer, entrepreneur, educator, me...
Dr. Malathi Acharya shares her journey from being a hospitalist to becoming a primary care physician and eventually starting her own practice in integrative medicine. Dr. Acharya emphasises the importance of self-care and self-nourishment in combating burnout and finding meaning and purpose in medicine.
We discuss:
- How self-care and self-nourishment are essential in combating burnout and finding meaning and purpose in medic...
Dr. Patrick Johnson, a psychiatrist and the medical director of the Victorian Doctors' Health Program, discusses physician suicide and wellbeing. He shares his journey to becoming a psychiatrist and his interest in doctors’ health. Dr. Johnson emphasises the importance of addressing loneliness, shame, and depression as risk factors for suicide. He highlights the need for leadership and wellbeing in the medical profession and en...
Dr Stephen Bergman AKA Samuel Shem, author of famed ‘The House of God’, is on to talk his new book.
‘Our Hospital’ is the final book in Shem’s Healing Quartet, about the COVID-19 pandemic and money-driven bureaucracy in medicine.
It was fun to speak with Shem to hear about his colourful life & provocative books.
‘The House of God’ is a satirical novel, exposing the dark side of medicine training. It’s often said...
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