Voices in medicine Webinars

 Dr. Williams is a double board-certified anesthesiologist and pain management specialist, musician, and producer. 

She discusses how music influenced her childhood, her career choices, and mentorship.  We also discussed music as a tool for anyone to heal especially the trauma of racism in which she co-created the Black Beauty Project and has produced and released two singles with her company Prelude PC. She also has a YouTube Channel "Prelude PC" in which she showcases her music to help heal others from pain, and anxiety of poor sleep. (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0xU...)  At end of the video, her beautiful daughter sings and original song "Soar" in which Dr. Williams accompanies her on the piano. 

It is absolutely beautiful and magical. 

 Cindy Tsai, internal medicine physician, author, and life coach shares with us tools she describes in her new best-selling book "So Much Better" ways in which we can use writing as a tool for healing. She shares how to do 1) Gratitude Journaling, 2) Reflective Journaling 3) Emotional Detox Journaling and 4) Free Write Journaling. She also shares how she self-published her book and did and continues to do marketing and book signings. You can find the book here!   https://www.amazon.com/Much-Better-Life-Changing-Strategies-Confidence-ebook/dp/B09Y4W1JNL

Dr. Disha Philip is a Board Certified Cardiologist, Chopra Center Certified Primordial Sound Meditation Teacher and has a Heart Math Certification in Stress, Anxiety and Emotional Management. She is the founder of the Path to Meditation Mastery and the Meditation for Female Physicians Facebook group. 

She shares with us what meditation is and is not, how she started her practice in meditation, and the personal and ripple effects of meditation in our own health as well as for others. We also discuss the effects stress has on our body and health. 

We discuss the 4 soul questions: "Who am I? What do I want in life? What is my purpose and how I can serve others and myself?  What am I grateful for?" 

We then discuss what our true self really is. 

We end with a short meditation. 

You can find out more https://dishaphilip.click/guide-1 or by contacting her at disha@dishaphilip.com.

Dr. Tamara Beckford shared with us her journey to start her UR Caring Docs Podcast and Society which focuses on self-care and wellness. She shared her insight and top tips, tools and habits to get us on a path to take better care for ourselves as physicians. 

Self-care is essential care.  Gems from the podcast: Gratitude is a top method of self-care and find out her other top ones.

 Also Dr. Beckford stated "I enter into my day, I don't have the day enter into me." 

Start the day with gratitude and a positive, growth mindset. 

 Dr. Diana Mercado gives tips, tools and systems on how to identify areas where you are not as efficient and find creative ways to shave off time from charting. She also addresses the best ways to become efficient when tackling the back log of charts that need to be closed. Identify your "why" are you doing things a certain way, how can you improve your systems, and how you can use help from your team members, scribe or a dictation system to maximize time and efficiency.  

 Dr. Liz Rook, a Colorado Rheumatologist talks about ways to explore the causes of stress, understanding our thoughts, what we feel in our body and techniques that can help to allow, process and manage it.  She discusses how stress manifests in physical pain or flares especially in patients with autoimmune diseases in her practice. She discusses ways she has helped her patients and others to manage stress.  

Have you become angry, hypervigilant and thinking everyone else was is the one with a problem? Dr. Jacobson learned techniques, meditation, and created an accountability system with a therapist to be able to be consistent on techniques he learned and implemented in his daily life.  

He shares books that helped him such as "Buddha's Brain" by Rick Hanson, "Meditation for Beginners" by Jack Kornfield, and "Wherever You Go There You Are" by John Kabat-Zinn. He has also used APPS like Headspace and Calm as well as You Tube Channels such as "Great Meditation" for short, easy to follow meditations.  Dr. Jacobson is a wonderful person to speak to and just listening to him you will feel calmer and more relaxed. 

An incredible story, journey in an accomplished career in which so many have been positively affected by Dr. Koyle. In this webinar we will explore burnout, second victim syndrome and self-compassion. Understanding we are all human and we all struggle with doubt, shame, insecurities because we are human. If you are struggling, find a trusted friend or colleague. Do not suffer in silence, you are not alone.