Doctor Hustle
Doctor Hustle by Bassam Zahid, MD features interviews with an eclectic assortment of healthcare clinicians, executives, researchers, and innovators who are changing the world, both in and outside of medicine, with their leadership, entrepreneurship, and creativity. Each episode, we decode the techniques, tools, and habits of our guests that you can use. We dig into questions of how they excel at their work, find motivation, practice medicine, manage their time, discover inspiration, create their art, and build their businesses.
- Update frequency
- every 24 days
- Average duration
- 60 minutes
- Episodes
- 20
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2021
#21 - Hard Work, Compassionate Care, and Leadership with Shock Trauma's Physician-in-Chief, Dr. Thomas Scalea
Bassam speaks with Dr. Thomas M. Scalea, a trauma surgeon and the Physician-in-Chief of the renowned R. Cowley Adams Shock Trauma in Baltimore, MD. In a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss his …
#20 - Mini Episode: The Why of Doctor Hustle and Three Excellent Resources for Marketing Your Work
Hey Listeners!
For this 20th episode, I decided to mix it up and do a solo episode! I discuss the origins of the Doctor Hustle podcast and where I hope to take the project. If you have never heard th…
#19 - Psychedelics: The Science, Research, and Medical Implications with Dr. Fred Barrett
Bassam speaks with Dr. Fred Barrett, a cognitive neuroscientist and psychedelics researcher, about the current state of psychedelics research. Dr. Barrett explains what they are, how they work, and t…
#18 - Navigating Careers in Professional Sports, Managing Injuries, COVID-19, and the Political Advocacy of Athletes with Dr. Riley Williams and Dr. Marshall Leonard
Bassam is joined by special guest co-host, Dr. Marshall Leonard, an emergency medicine physician and former professional soccer player with the New England Revolution. Together they speak with Dr. R…
#17 - Starting an IV Infusion Clinic, a COVID-19 Invention, and Investing in People with Dr. Jes Smith
Bassam speaks with Dr. Jes Smith about how he launched Biofuse, an IV infusion and therapy clinic, and how he went from idea to execution. They also discuss how the COVID pandemic inspired him to des…
#16 - Screenwriting, Getting In the Door, and How Writing Teaches Empathy with Dr. Roshan Sethi
Bassam speaks with Dr. Roshan Sethi about his dual careers as a physician and a screenwriter. He has previously consulted or written for medical TV shows such as Code Black, Black Box, and The Reside…
#15 - Millennial Mental Health, Responsible Social Media, and Creating Opportunities with Dr. Jay-Sheree Allen
Bassam speaks with Dr. Jay-Sheree Allen about her podcast, Millennial Health, which addresses the major health issues of Millennials. They discuss the burden of mental health and the stigma of therap…
#14 - The Highs and Lows of Launching a Telemedicine Startup with Dr. Christopher Carleo
Bassam speaks with Dr. Christopher Carleo about his journey as a new entrepreneur. Along with his partners, Dr. Carleo launched MDAnywhere (www.mdanywhere.com), an asynchronous telemedicine service t…
#13 - Tech Startups, Co-Founders, and Growing Your Platform with Dr. Gerald Diaz
Bassam speaks with Dr. Gerald Diaz, a physician-entrepreneur about his startup, GrepMed (www.grepmed.com), a free, image-based, medical reference platform. They discuss the journey of a founder, incl…
#12 - Hybrid Physicians, Architecture, and Healthcare Design with Dr. Diana Anderson
Bassam speaks with Dr. Diana Anderson, a physician-architect about her pathway in creating this unique career. They also discuss the design of hospitals and nursing homes, and how COVID-19 might infl…
#11 - The Intersection of Social Emergency Medicine, Black Lives Matters and COVID-19 with Dr. Italo Brown
Bassam speaks with Dr. Italo Brown, a physician-writer and assistant professor in Social Emergency Medicine at Stanford Hospital, about the recent Black Lives Matters movement and its relationship to…
#10 - Graphic Medicine, Creativity, and Art with Dr. Mike Natter
Bassam talks with Dr. Mike Natter, a physician-artist, about his work in the emerging field of graphic medicine, how art informs his work as a doctor, and how having type 1 diabetes informs his art. …
#9 - Beginning as a Chef, Healthier Eating, and Wellness with Dr. Timothy Harlan
Bassam talks with Dr. Timothy Harlan, a physician-chef, about his diverse career as an author, entrepreneur, and his health-food and wellness website, DrGourmet.com. Along the way, he shares his secr…
#8 - Narrative Medicine, Literary Non-Profits, and Publishing with Dr. Ajay Major
Bassam talks with Dr. Ajay Major, a physician-publisher, about how he co-founded the popular online narrative medicine publications: in-Training and in-House, why he started the literary non-profit, …
#7 - Storytelling, Writing, and Journalism with Dr. Amitha Kalaichandran
Bassam talks with Dr. Amitha Kalaichandran, a pediatrics resident and health journalist about how she became a writer, how she crafts her stories, what she learned in her experience launching a start…
#6 - Launching a Medical Education Startup with the Founders of Sketchy Medical
Bassam talks with the co-founders of the renowned medical education company, Sketchy Medical, about how they started their company as medical students, what it is like to run a genuinely creative com…
#5 - Women's Empowerment, Writing, and Healthcare Policy with Dr. Amy Faith Ho
Bassam talks with Dr. Amy Faith Ho, a nationally published writer and speaker on topics ranging from healthcare policy to medical education to women's advocacy. They chat about how women's "disadvant…
#4 - Surviving a Heart Attack and Making the Most of Life with Dr. Herman Williams
Bassam talks with Dr. Herman Williams, Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer for RCCH Hospital Care Partners about how he reinvented himself after suffering a major heart attack in resi…
#3 - HBCUs, Non-Profits, and Health Disparities with Dr. Michael G. Knight
Bassam talks with Dr. Michael G. Knight, President and Founder of the Renewing Health Foundation, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine. They talk…
#2 - Building an Urgent Care Clinic from Scratch with Dr. Wayne Moore
Bassam talks with Dr. Wayne Moore, who works as the Medical Director of the Physician Assistant program at Meharry Medical College and is the founder and CEO of Moore Life Urgent Care located in Gall…