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Path Of A Doctor

Path Of A Doctor

Zeja 59 Episodes Oct 13, 2026

A physician shares the behind-the-scenes realities of becoming and practicing as a doctor, covering lessons learned beyond medical school. The host reflects on personal experiences in hospitalist medicine and urgent care, offering insights into the unspoken challenges and wisdom gained along the journey.

Episodes

Doctor Explains: How to Teach Med Students and Residents
Doctor Explains: How to Teach Med Students and Residents Oct 13, 2026 00:15:58 Whether you are a senior medical student, a resident, or an attending, at some point you will have learners working alongside you. In this video, I break down what has actually worked for me when teaching medical students and residents: setting clear expectations from day one, teaching clinical reasoning instead of trivia, making it safe to say "I don't know," giving learners real re
Doctor Explains: How to Choose Your Specialty
Doctor Explains: How to Choose Your Specialty Oct 6, 2026 00:25:32 Choosing a specialty is one of the biggest decisions you'll make in medicine, and most students weigh the wrong things. In this episode, a practicing hospitalist and walk-in clinic physician skips the match rates and salary tables and shares the thinking frameworks he wishes he'd had: why to prepare for the most competitive specialties early, how to think honestly about money and time to i
Doctor Explains: Imposter Syndrome in Medicine
Doctor Explains: Imposter Syndrome in Medicine Sep 29, 2026 00:16:14 Imposter syndrome shows up at every stage of becoming a physician, and just when it gets better, the next stage brings it right back. In this episode, I break down why it hits so hard in medicine, from the social media highlight reel to the very real skill gaps between each level of training, and share the practical approaches that actually turn the volume down.Whether you're a premed looking
Doctor Explains: How to Survive Your First Year As A Doctor
Doctor Explains: How to Survive Your First Year As A Doctor Sep 22, 2026 00:16:53 Finishing residency doesn't mean your training is over. In this video, I share the advice I wish someone had given me before I became an attending: why your learning really starts once your name is on the chart, why going slow early is a strength, how to make your acute care foundations rock solid, and why resourcefulness, mentors and experienced nurses matter more than anything you memorized.
Doctor Explains: How To Be A Healthy Physician (Nutrition, Training And Basics)
Doctor Explains: How To Be A Healthy Physician (Nutrition, Training And Basics) Sep 15, 2026 00:30:33 Physicians spend their entire careers managing preventable disease in other people, and a startling number of us are not managing it in ourselves. This episode breaks down the practical system I have used since pre-med to stay healthy through training and now through attending life: how to set calories and macros without turning food into a second job, which supplements are actually worth the mone
Relationship Advice For Doctors And Healthcare Workers
Relationship Advice For Doctors And Healthcare Workers Sep 8, 2026 00:18:24 Medicine trains you for almost everything except the part of your life that happens after you leave the building. This episode covers relationships in medicine: how to actually meet people when your schedule is hostile to it, how to hold a relationship together through the busiest stretches of training, and the ego problem that quietly destroys more of these relationships than any call schedule ev
Doctor Explains: How To Spend Your Money
Doctor Explains: How To Spend Your Money Sep 1, 2026 00:19:43 Medicine trains you for a decade and never once teaches you what to do with the money at the end of it. There is no class on how much you will earn, how to spend it, or where it actually makes a difference. So most physicians end up at one of two extremes, either driving a new BMW off the lot in first year or still carrying a broken phone ten years into practice.This episode covers the five catego
How to Structure Your Day as a Physician
How to Structure Your Day as a Physician Aug 25, 2026 00:20:25 Nobody teaches you how to run a day. Medicine teaches you how to run a list, a differential, and a code, then leaves the architecture of your actual twenty-four hours entirely up to you. In this episode I break down the system I use as a locum hospitalist and urgent care physician: how to account for the parts of your day you cannot control, why the hardest task belongs at the front of your mornin
Doctor Explains: Dealing With Bad Outcomes
Doctor Explains: Dealing With Bad Outcomes Aug 18, 2026 00:16:51 Every physician deals with bad outcomes. A patient codes, deteriorates, suffers a complication from a treatment you started, ends up in the ICU, or dies. It happens in every specialty and in every practice setting, and almost nobody is formally taught how to handle it. In this episode I break down the actual framework: stabilizing what can still be stabilized, asking for help without letting ego g
Doctor Explains: How To Give Bad News
Doctor Explains: How To Give Bad News Aug 11, 2026 00:21:23 Nobody sits you down in medical school or residency and teaches you how to tell a patient that the scan came back with metastatic disease, or how to tell a family that their mother is at the end of her life. You are expected to learn one of the hardest conversations in medicine by watching someone else do it and hoping it sinks in. This episode is the framework I wish somebody had given me as a re
Doctor’s Advice: MD vs DO vs International Medical School
Doctor’s Advice: MD vs DO vs International Medical School Aug 4, 2026 00:16:08 MD versus DO versus Caribbean and international medical schools. Not match rates, not statistics, not the comparison charts you can find anywhere. This episode is about the part nobody says out loud: whether the stigma is real, why it exists, and what you should actually do about it. I got into an MD program locally on my first try, and I still think the selection system is deeply flawed and drive
AI Is Coming For Doctors: What To Do About It
AI Is Coming For Doctors: What To Do About It Jul 28, 2026 00:18:28 Everyone said radiology would be the first specialty replaced by AI. Years later there are more radiologists than ever. So what is actually happening, and what should physicians do about it right now? In this episode I break down why the older generation of doctors is fighting AI the same way they fought EMRs, why that resistance costs you, and what parts of the job are genuinely at risk.We break

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