2024 Wrapped Part One
2024 was a great year for The Handover Podcast. Let's see some of the highlights. Stay tuned for part two!
Dec 07, 2024•33 min•Season 3Ep. 20
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!
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Palliative care, infertility, fostering, adoption, overwhelm & coaching with Dr Sarah Wittry
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 seek coaching, which transformed her life Infertility, fostering, and adop...
Oct 05, 2024•42 min•Season 3Ep. 19
Doctors who coach doctors with Dr Jill Gamberg, Dr Adam Harrison, & Dr Urszula Carr
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 doctors. We discuss: Everyone's unique background and journey in and outside me...
Sep 22, 2024•57 min•Season 3Ep. 18
From professional dancer to surg training to GP & sports medicine with Dr Jason Lam
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 your practice based on your interests - Keeping your non-medical identity ...
Sep 08, 2024•40 min•Season 3Ep. 17
A colourful life of medicine and writing - take two with Samuel Shem
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.
Aug 25, 2024•40 min•Season 3Ep. 16
Changing lanes in medicine: from remote medicine to research in sauna therapy
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 sweat Going for your dreams, and continuing to try in finding your special spa...
Aug 11, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Becoming an intrapreneur within clinical medicine with Dr Foley Tugbiyele
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 For coaching with Isabella go to balancedmedics.com/coaching To reach out to Dr Foley head to his Website | LinkedIn | Instag...
Jul 28, 2024•49 min•Season 3Ep. 14
From med school to tech startups & serial entrepreneurship with Dr Hana Ali
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 Her new company HealthCareer Transitions To connect with Dr Hana Ali go to ...
Jul 14, 2024•49 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Surviving medical error, adverse outcomes, and litigation with Dr Stacia Dearmin
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 to thrive after litigation and poor outcomes. Takeaways Stacia's journ...
Jun 30, 2024•55 min•Season 3Ep. 12
From GP training to sex therapist with Dr Jessica Wade
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 against the grain. We discuss: How Dr Jess left GP training to reconnec...
Jun 16, 2024•50 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Starting a business in healthcare with Dr Samantha Benjamin-Allen
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 regain their function and purpose. There is a gap in care for severely d...
Jun 02, 2024•36 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Working with our inner critic with Dr Isabella Townshend
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
May 19, 2024•10 min•Season 3Ep. 9
From burnout to newfound joy in preventive health with Dr Maryam Baqir
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 years of exhaustion and neglecting other aspects of life The importance of being...
May 12, 2024•50 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Strength in Vulnerability: Parenting, Medicine, and Postnatal Depression with Dr Catherine Kizana
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 help other parents in their own journey. We discuss: Transitioning to a new ...
May 05, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 7
From surgical training to medical administration with Dr Phillippa Smith
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 the factors that led to a career change to medical administration. ...
Apr 28, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Women uplifting women in medicine: motherhood & more with Dr Sarah Arachchi
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 - Fertility in medicine - Representation matters For coaching with Isabella g...
Apr 21, 2024•35 min•Season 3Ep. 5
MicroSkills: How to reach big goals through small steps with Dr Adaira Landry & Dr Resa E. Lewiss
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, mentor, and point-of-care ultrasound specialist. She also hosts the Visi...
Apr 14, 2024•53 min•Season 3Ep. 4
From burnout to career autonomy with Dr Malathi Acharya
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 medicine - Starting your own practice requires learning new skills and overc...
Apr 07, 2024•36 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Wellbeing and physician suicide with Dr Patrick Johnson
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 encourages open conversations and connections among colleagues. We disc...
Mar 23, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 2
A life of writing and medicine with Samuel Shem
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 that ‘The House of God’ did for the art of medicine what ‘Catch-22’ did for the ...
Mar 16, 2024•44 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Creating stability through diversifying our careers with Dr Jolie Keenan
Dr Jolie Keenan is an infectious disease physician, real estate investor, mother, and founder of Best Year Journals. Best Year Journals was created after witnessing patients write down lists of dreams and aspirations post life-changing diagnoses. Jolie noticed that often the dreams were being written down for retirement, so she decided to create these journals with her mother so that we can live our “retirement” goals NOW. We discuss: - Migration - Choosing our specialty - Highlights & chall...
Mar 09, 2024•40 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Boundary setting and caring for ourselves with Dr Mary Leung
Dr Mary Leung is on this episode to discuss how she recovered from burnout and found a path that aligned with her values more. Dr Leung is a physician specialised in medical oncology, haematology, and internal medicine. She went from feeling trapped and devalued at work to regaining control of her life. We discuss: - what led up to Mary’s burnout - the danger of self-sacrifice - how she transformed her life - how caring for ourselves helps how we relate and help others - the importance of bounda...
Mar 02, 2024•46 min•Season 2Ep. 26
The power of sleep and finding your niche with Dr Funke Afolabi-Brown
This episode we have Dr. Funke Afolabi-Brown, a sleep medicine physician, to speak all about how she found her niche in medicine and created her own business. She is passionate about helping people discover sleep as their superpower. Dr. Afolabi-Brown is a clinician , speaker , consultant , and coach , and she helps busy professionals and their children prioritise sleep to thrive, achieve optimal health, and live to their fullest potential. We discuss: - How we can exert so much pressure on ours...
Feb 24, 2024•43 min•Season 2Ep. 25
How to be a thriving doctor with Sharee Johnson
This episode we have Sharee Johnson on. Sharee is a registered psychologist and executive coach to leaders, business owners and health professionals. Sharee is the founder of Coaching for Doctors and author of bestselling book The Thriving Doctor. As part of Coaching for Doctors, Sharee also offers Recalibrate, an immersive development program for doctors that is due to start in-person this 8th of March in Melbourne. There is an online version starting in April this year if this suits better. Fo...
Feb 17, 2024•58 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Changing career directions and finding fulfillment with Dr Nishi Bhopal
Today we have Dr Nishi Bhopal, a psychiatrist, sleep medicine physician, who practices holistic medicine, calling from San Francisco. Nishi did all the things she was supposed to do, but found herself experiencing high levels of stress in training, that ultimately led to burnout. Nishi is on to share her story and how she turned her experience into a practice that helps to heal others. Nishi currently teaches other doctors sleep medicine. If you’d like to sign up to her free masterclass go here ...
Feb 10, 2024•45 min•Season 2Ep. 23
From critical care to pathology trainee with Dr Charlotte Cachia
This episode we my friend on, Dr Charlotte Cachia, my friend from internship & residency who has a big career change. From critical care to a non-clinical specialty, pathology, Charlotte is on to share her story. I’m so grateful for Charlotte’s vulnerability and honesty in how she healed from burnout and found a career in medicine that helps her live a more fulfilling life. We discuss: - Charlotte’s journey from young high school graduate to even younger doctor - Charlotte’s experience with ...
Feb 03, 2024•50 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Combining your passions to create a unique career with Dr Barb Blasko
This episode we have Dr Barb Blasko, an Emergency Medicine Specialist and owner of a mobile healthcare service for equestrian events, called Show MD. This episode is all about how we can combine our passions to create our own unique career. Instead of ‘either/or’, we can be ‘yes, and’. We discuss: - How she got to where she is now - Why Barb chose Emergency Medicine - How Barb combined her love of horses with medicine - Tips on starting your own business Coaching with Isabella at balancedmedics....
Jan 27, 2024•25 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Clinical research physician: a hidden gem with Dr Mary Magdy
This episode we have Dr Mary Magdy on to discuss her role as a Principal Investigator in Clinical Trials. This job is a hidden gem that remunerates well. It’s a growing industry in Australia and not want some might think when they hear research. Tune in to learn more about this role that is a great option for doctors that want to stay in medicine, keep seeing patients, but in a different way. We discuss: - Mary’s journey in medicine and how she found clinical research - What clinical research is...
Jan 20, 2024•38 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Following your heart: off the medical treadmill with Dr Bishan Rajapakse
This episode we have Dr Bishan Rajapakse on. He is an Emergency Medicine Specialist, writer, educator, and advocate for wellbeing, culture, and safety. Bishan came on to share his story & wisdom. This episode is great to show us all how there is no rush to the consultant finish line. We all do life at our own pace and that is more than okay. We discuss: - Bishan’s scenic route to specialisation - How he lived his life with what made sense to him (instead of what makes sense to others) - Foll...
Jan 13, 2024•56 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Making 2024 count with Dr Isabella Townshend
Ready to take radical responsibility for our 2024? This episode is all about how we can reflect on 2023 and design our 2024 to be the year we want it to be. Looking forward to witnessing your powerful 2024. For coaching go to balancedmedics.com/coaching
Jan 06, 2024•15 min•Season 2Ep. 18
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