What does it take to become a doctor, and what's the state of of medical education?
Why Doing What You Want To Do Requires Balls And How To Get There
Why is it so hard to live your life the way you want without following what is expected from you? Here are some tips to help you do what you really want!
The Wrong Reasons For Choosing Medicine as a Career – How to Be Truly Happy as a Physician
Going into medicine for the wrong reasons can lead to pain and misery. Discover if you'll be a happy and fulfilled physician. Must-read for all pre-meds out there!
How To Choose a Medical Specialty in a Changing Landscape
Most medical students find that there are many sub-fields they find engaging. So what happens at the end of the road if you haven’t decided and are still torn between more than one specialty?
Your Professional Life Must Begin At The End Of Your Comfort Zone
When we think of contractors (at least in Europe) a physician usually not comes up our mind. The plumber across the street or the my best friend's hairdresser, but ...
Only When We Learn How To Die Then We Learn How To Live
The headline of this post comes from a book called Tuesday with Morrie. Maybe some of you read it. The quote has been used by a Singapore-based physician named Dr. Richard Teo, who not only millions as a physician but also mingled with the rich and famous.
Open Floor: A New Breed of Med Students
The floor is open for discussion, we like to know your opinions. This will be my first post of the kind and hope to follow up with many more. Most of the valuable substance of these type of posts will come from the comments area and social media discussions. The goal: get a convergent conclusion...
Olympic Sized Motivation
Watching the Olympics this summer has been a wonderfully guilty pleasure. Between the various levels of drama about what Ryan Lochte’s mom may have meant about his social life , unnecessary discussions about Olympic Gold All-Round Women Gymnasts champion Gabby Douglas’s hair and concerns about whether the US Women’s Swimming Team smiles too much (sorry we’re...
The KOL Of The Future
Key Opinion Leaders (KOL) are still one of the most important corner stones for the marketing machines of pharmaceutical companies. Their network, expertise, reach and authority is what pharma is interested in. We’ve written about KOL stardom in the past and how to attain it. In this post I’d like to take a closer look...
We See What’s Possible
Franz and I recently had a short phone call and then Franz said something that struck me: “We see what’s possible”. As we are doing a lot of times we were discussing what the “digital physician” is and consequently what the “digital patient” is. For both parties, the internet still remains rather unknown terrain. Go...
An Intimate Interview With Jeff Tangney, Founder ePocrates & Doximity
We’ve sat down with one of the most seasoned and respected entrepreneurs and thinkers in healthcare these days. Jeff Tangney, who not only co-founded ePocrates and brought it to the NASDAQ, but who has recently also founded Doximity, a startup that hopefully will eventually replace the physician’s fax machine. Enjoy! MC: When you started your...
How to become the medical advisor of a cool health startup?
This is the health-tech revolution and you can be part of it. Find out about the concrete steps you could take in order to become a medical advisor to a startup.
