If you want to understand a whole occupation from snout to tail, a how-to that you can apply to your work, whatever it may be… that’s what we do on the This Is Not Advice podcast.
Our second episode is out, and it’s with someone I’ve had the pleasure of working with: Dr. Graham Walker, MD, ER physician at Kaiser San Francisco and founder of Offcall.
I wanted to understand what it actually means to be a doctor – in Graham’s case, in the emergency room. Not the TV version (maybe a little like The Pitt, but definitely not Grey’s Anatomy).
So we went there.
How do you decide to become a doctor in the first place, when you have to jump through so many hoops? What does it feel like to walk into a room and meet someone who is terrified, and have to immediately figure out what’s wrong with them? Why does medicine eat so much paperwork? What do doctors actually get paid, and why does the specialty you choose matter more than people realize? How do doctors die differently than the rest of us?
Graham is also a founder (MDCalc, a medical calculator used by two-thirds of U.S. doctors, and now Offcall, a company Bloomberg Beta backed), a podcaster (How I Doctor with Dr. Graham Walker, available wherever you listen to this!), and honest about what’s broken in healthcare and what might actually fix it.
It’s a long one… more than four hours… some things you can’t rush.
Welcome our second guest, emergency physician and startup founder, Dr. Graham Walker. Listen here!