Beryl Vaughan is a consultant in Practice Development, Marketing and Business Consulting for physicians in the medicolegal space as expert witnesses or who conduct evaluations with legal application. She has worked for 15 years in this field with Forensic Psychiatrists, Psychologists and, for the past 5 years, physicians in other medical specialties. She was a case manager and paralegal for 2 decades prior to turning her attention to medical expert witness practice. She has educated Forensic Psychiatry Fellows at UC Davis, UCSF, and UCLA for the past 3 years. We talk about how to help attorney ..read more

Amy G. Fogelman, MD, is back for a follow-up interview. We talk about her first case, which she couldn’t talk much about because of privacy rules, so we also talk about her first case that went to trial, which means it is public information. We talk about what she would have done differently early on in her medical career and what I should do once I get my first case (in case anyone needs an otolaryngologist – I’m here for you). We also talk about CVs and what we should do to make our CVs more appropriate for medical-legal consulting.   Dr. Fogelman is Board Certified in Internal Medicine ..read more

Dr. Karen Wolowick has been a practicing OBGYN for over 17 years.  She decided to venture into the world of private practice to try to reconnect with the more intimate and rewarding aspects of women's health.  ​ She gives a review of what all physicians should know about OB-GYN. We get a crash course in birth control, why someone should “get their hormones checked,” how to think about risks when prescribing medications in a pregnant or nursing patient, the modern practice of OB, like laborists, and when we are going to start seeing pre and post-wifery, not just mid-wifery. Born and r ..read more

Dr. John Jurica is a family physician who began doing nonclinical side jobs early in his career. He started as a part time physician advisor and medical director, and subsequently worked as a hospital Chief Medical Officer for 14 years. He left his CMO position to partner in an urgent care start-up in 2014, where he continues to serve as co-owner and medical director. In 2017, John started producing the weekly Physician Nonclinical Careers Podcast, where he presents interviews with physicians in unconventional careers and experts in physician career transition and this is what we discussed. We ..read more

Dr. Sanj Katyal is making his third appearance on the podcast. He is a radiologist, author, coach and student of positive psychology. Sanj discovered positive psychology as an attending, whereas Jordyn discovered it as an undergrad, and both have Masters degrees in it. She’s currently a second-year psychiatry resident at Mt. Sinai and already extremely accomplished. In fact, she just published her first book, Choose Growth: A workbook for Transcending Trauma, Fear and Self-Doubt. They discovered each other and have been collaborating ever since. They talk about how to flourish in our lives, no ..read more

Jacqueline Clancy is a certified legal nurse consultant and expert witness who specializes in cases involving delay of care and interfacility transfers. The majority of her career was spent in identifying gaps in care, reviewing chronologies/timelines for opportunities for improvement, deviations from best practice, and writing protocols for future prevention of injury, and malpractice. She designed an Interfacility Transfer Center overseeing 23 hospitals, and designed a Logistics Center for a University hospital. We discuss how she got into this field, the recurring issues she’s seen in litig ..read more

Ernesto Gluecksmann is the managing partner at Through the Noise, who I’ve hired to help increase the size of my audience. His strategy was so dramatically different from anyone else I had interviewed, so this is what we discuss on the podcast. How to get your name, brand and services out there to a bigger audience. The secret sauce for me was my youtube channel because so many more people are on youtube than podcasts. We talk about how to get the right eyeballs on you. Ernesto has 25 years in providing consultative services in data technologies for national and international organizations.&nb ..read more

Carin Gilfry is an experienced voice actor who voiced thousands of commercials, instructional videos, IVR systems, eLearning programs, documentaries, and video games, and narrated and produced over 100 audiobooks. She works primarily from her professional home studio in Southern California (www.GilfryStudios.com). Her past and current clients include FedEx, Volkswagen, Citibank, Duncan Hines, Aspercreme, Quaker, Clairol, CVS, Zulily.com, Neutrogena, Benjamin Moore, GrubHub, Jakks Pacific Toys, Little Tikes, Play Doh, Denny’s, Shutterfly, Audible.com, Quell, and many more. Given her expertise i ..read more

Anupam Bapu Jena, MD, PhD, is the Joseph P. Newhouse Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and a physician in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. As an economist and physician, Dr. Jena’s research involves several areas of health economics and policy including the use of natural experiments in health care, the economics of physician behavior and the physician workforce, medical malpractice, the economics of health care productivity, and the economics of medical innova ..read more

Sandman Legal Services is the nation’s only law firm dedicated to the needs of medical expert witnesses and consultants. Its founder and principal, Dan Sandman, Esq was on the show in August and gave a super engaging interview with such useful information, that I had to have him back. In the last interview, he gave an overview of the business of being a medical expert witness and in this episode, we get more granular. We talk about retainer agreements, which are the contracts between you and the law firm employing you. This has to come from you. We also talk about errors and omissions insuranc ..read more