Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast, leadership and health coach, Becky Wolfe. During her career as a Physician Assistant, Becky noticed that the healthcare system was treating a lot of chronic diseases but not doing […]

Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast physician coach Joseph Kaczmarczyk, DO, MPH, MBA. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a cascade of seemingly endless changes. While everyone’s experience of the pandemic […]

Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast author, international speaker, and consultant in performance and sport psychology, Dr. Haley Perlus. The principles of sport / performance psychology have many applications for surgeons, who are always striving […]

Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast physician leader and coach, Joseph M. Kaczmarczyk, DO, MPH, MBA. Joseph specializes in teaching physicians about crisis leadership and crisis management. Although there is overlap between crisis leadership and […]

Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Carla welcomes orthopaedic surgeon and coach, Jeffrey M Smith, MD, FACS, PCC to the 100th episode of the SurgeonMasters podcast! A huge part of the SurgeonMasters podcast has been inspiring others by highlighting issues […]

Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast physician leader and coach, Joseph M. Kaczmarczyk, DO, MPH, MBA. Although crisis leadership and crisis management are often used interchangeably, there is an important distinction between the two. Crisis […]

Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast Carla Smith, MD. Carla is an orthopaedic surgeon, educator, and coach. As physicians, we talk a lot about having compassion for our patients but we don’t really talk about […]

Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast orthopaedic surgeon, Wendell Cole, MD. Dr. Cole is also the host of the popular orthopaedic podcast, Nailed It Ortho. The Nailed It Ortho podcast grew from Dr. Cole’s desire […]

Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast board-certified pediatrician and founder of Doctoring Differently®, Dr. Naomi Lawrence-Reid. Doctoring Differently® is focused on teaching physicians that they can create the lives and careers that they deserve. Many […]

Jeff welcomes to the podcast Retired US Navy Captain and New York Times Bestselling author, David Marquet. David was a nuclear submarine commander who came up through an organizational structure that rewarded knowing the right answer and following orders. In many organizational structures, people are often biased towards doing what they’re told, even if they […]

Jeff welcomes to The SurgeonMasters Podcast orthopaedic trauma surgeon and founder of SIGN Fracture Care, Dr. Lewis G. Zirkle. SIGN is a humanitarian organization that builds sustainable orthopaedic capacity in developing countries by providing relevant education to surgeons, then manufacturing and donating the instruments and implants needed to treat fractures. Dr. Zirkle was inspired to […]

Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast SurgeonMasters collaborator and physician coach, Dr. Errin Weisman. Burnout is a common topic in the medical community. It’s been a topic of discussion for so long that some physicians […]

Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast orthopaedic surgeon, Darin Davidson, MD. Polyvagal theory describes how we experience life as humans at the most foundational level. Using that information, it then provides a very actionable framework […]

Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast surgeon, MD, PhD, and co-founder of surgical intelligence startup Theator, Dr. Tamir Wolf. Surgery is essentially an apprenticeship. As a result, the performance of a surgeon – what they […]

Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast pediatric orthopaedic surgeon and physician leadership advocate, Dr. Alvin Jones. As surgeons, we’re trained to perform procedures with the utmost technical precision. But we’re often not well trained at […]

Jeff welcomes to the podcast Stuart Slavin MD, MEd – a Senior Scholar for Well-Being at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The well-being movement has changed a lot over the past decade. Right now, it feels like we’re a little bit stuck. Maybe we shouldn’t be focusing solely on well-being activities like […]

Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast pediatric orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Alvin Jones. All surgeons are leaders. Even if we don’t have a formal leadership role, we are leaders in the OR. It can sometimes be […]

Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast Julie Samora, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at Ohio State University. Second Victim Syndrome can impact any surgeon when a patient experiences a bad outcome.  Many healthcare providers who make […]

Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast Dr. Ara Feinstein, an Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Arizona, College of Medicine – Phoenix. Ara is also a Physician Executive, an active member of a Federal Disaster […]

Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… In this episode of the mini-podcast, Jeff welcomes Stuart Slavin MD, MEd – a Senior Scholar for Well-Being at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Currently, there’s a big focus on system-wide […]

Jeff welcomes to the podcast Paul DeChant, MD., keynote speaker, author, and executive coach assisting healthcare leaders create more resilient organizations. We believe that the primary driver of burnout is the workplace, not the physician. As surgeons, we’re knowledgeable, trained, and dedicated. The problem is that we’re often in a work setting that depersonalizes our […]

Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast Professor at The University of New Mexico (UNM) and Chair of the Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation, Dr. Bob Schenck. As surgeons, it’s important to consider the work culture […]

Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast “recovering” radiologist and mindset coach, Dr. Tracey O’Connell. Throughout her career as a physician, Tracey has had many moments of feeling “not good enough” — which is something a […]

Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… Jeff welcomes to the podcast orthopaedic surgeon and advocate, Arianna Gianakos. The rates of bullying, sexual harassment, and discrimination present in the medical field are alarmingly high. These abusive behaviors in our field can […]