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    Outliers in Medicine
    Outliers in Medicine
    Outliers in Medicine
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    Outliers in Medicine

    By John Shufeldt

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    Venturing into the field of medicine means the typical barrage of questions for students and doctors in training. The sheer volume of choices ahead of you can be daunting, and prior to medical school, no one really prepares you for exactly what it means to become a doctor.

    So emergency physician, author and speaker, Dr. John Shufeldt, sought out to create a list of questions using 30 years of clinical and entrepreneurial health care experience that students need to be best prepared to evaluate their future career path. He chose six high achieving and award winning medical professionals of various specialties to answer these questions.

    Dr. Shufeldt calls these chosen individuals: “Outliers,” defined as: “An exceptional person for whom excellence is merely a starting point toward a destination far beyond our normal definition of achievement.”Outliers-in-Medicine-Cover

    By providing the most effective questions, and a line-up of “rock star” medical professionals, Dr. Shufeldt presents potential career pathways, tips, and resources to help students decide whether a career in medicine is right for them.

    “Sit down with” a winning combination of professionals:

    A pre-medical student who offers tips and life hacks for getting the most out of your undergraduate experience
    A recent medical school graduate and emergency medicine resident offers specific advice about choosing a school and career path
    Two seasoned family physicians who offer invaluable tips for building a lasting patient base and professional tips you can’t learn in class
    An industry leading bariatric surgeon whose passion for her discipline and patients helped her overcome her biggest obstacles
    An accomplished medical educator who is creating opportunities for future physicians like you and has a unique perspective going from student to professor
    Do not miss out on the opportunity to get answers to the most valuable questions you could ask someone who has already achieved your dream career. Do not even begin the time intensive and costly pursuit of becoming a doctor before sitting down with various professionals from the field.

    Don’t have a list of medical professionals on speed dial? Read Outliers in Medicine for advice from top doctors from various specialties and a pre-medical student just like you.

    Don’t wait until you graduate, get answers to your most important questions now, and pursue your path with more assurance and direction.

    Follow us at www.facebook.com/readingredientsofoutliers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Shufeldt
    Release dateNov 16, 2015
    ISBN9781940288109
    Outliers in Medicine
    Author

    John Shufeldt

    John Shufeldt is a serial student, an indefatigable change agent and a multidisciplinary entrepreneur who has studied the traits and qualities of extraordinary individuals for over three decades. In Ingredients of Outliers John guides us through a number of traits common to outliers and inspires us leave our comfort zones to join their ranks.John received his BA from Drake University in 1982 and his MD from the University of Health Sciences/ The Chicago Medical School in 1986. He completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at Christ Hospital and Medical Center in 1989 where he spent his final year as Chief Resident. John received his MBA in 1995, and his Juris Doctorate in 2005, both from Arizona State University. He is admitted to the State Bar in Arizona, the Federal District Court, and Supreme Court of the United States.He has started numerous health and non-health care businesses and continues to practice emergency medicine and law. He writes and lectures on a variety of subject matters to graduate medical, business and law students. He is an adjunct professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of law where he teaches a clinic on Health Law Entrepreneurism. He serves on the Drake University Board of Trustees and the Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law Alumni Board.You can find more information out about John and his work at www.ingredientsofoutliers.com

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      Outliers in Medicine - John Shufeldt

      Like many endeavors, this one started because I needed to learn. I wanted to figure out what mentors – had I been wise enough to engage any – would have taught me along my journey. To that end, I started cataloguing traits of people I believed to be exceptional. These outliers, as I began to call them, simply made everything look easy, even though I knew that wasn’t the case. As I began to distill the traits of my pseudo-mentors, I realized most of them shared and excelled in an abundance of the traits I observed – I was on to something! If I mastered some of these traits, maybe I could achieve some measure of personal and professional success. I was on a mission!

      The genesis of the first two books, Ingredients of Outliers and Ingredients of Young Outliers, was simply to remind myself, and share with others, what insights a mentor would have imparted to me. It’s not rocket science was what I often heard. Yet, despite the non-academic flavor of the books, for reasons I’m still discovering, they made a difference in people’s lives – maybe if only to remind them of what they’d once known but had forgotten. Sometimes it only takes a nudge, a minor course correction, to get back on the path of accelerated growth. Hopefully, these books provided that nudge.

      The Outlier Series of career-specific books takes a slightly different approach. Rather than looking at traits, these books take a deep dive the amazing stories of six outliers. What you’ll learn as you navigate your way through these pages is that these remarkable individuals share many common traits and have experienced many similar challenges and obstacles on their trajectory. None of the outliers had it easy and none of their paths was straight – far from it. All struggled, dared and sometimes risked everything. All are humble, tenacious in the face of failure, and continually learn and adapt.

      One of the most important qualities they share is passion. I recognized that passion is the one common denominator of happy, secure, successful individuals, and it’s at the core of every outlier in this series. As Nelson Mandela said, There is no passion to be found in playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

      The outliers found and followed their passion at various times in their personal and professional lives. Often, it wasn’t until they found their passion and dared mighty things that they achieved their outlier status. They may have been successful and content, but they’ll tell you, they were living small. Ultimately, they never accepted that role. They wanted to change the world – and they did. Learn from them. Let them be your mentors on your journey to greatness!

      J.S.

      Chapter 1

      Dr. Robin Blackstone

      Biography:

      Dr. Robin Blackstone

      Even at times when I’ve had really hard times, like there is nothing quite as difficult as working as a surgery resident... But remember that if you choose to quit, it will last a whole lifetime... So, whatever you’re going through at that moment, if you can just figure out a way to get to the next moment and through that little patch, remember that things will change, they will improve, you’ll sleep more, and they’ll be better. You’ll look back on it and realize that if you had quit it would have been the biggest mistake you’d ever made.

      Dr. Robin Blackstone

      Dr. Robin Blackstone is the Medical Director of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery at Scottsdale Healthcare Bariatric Center, where she has performed more than 4,000 surgeries. She is also an associate clinical professor of surgery at the University of Arizona School of Medicine-Phoenix. She is also a past president of The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery and the first woman in the 30-year history of the largest association in the world dedicated to bariatric surgery.

      Robin grew up in the Grand Canyon National Park. She first attended the University of Arizona in Tucson and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. Robin decided to return to the university to complete the courses she needed to qualify for medical school. She was later accepted as a medical student at the University of Texas in San Antonio, and graduated in 1988 with her Doctor of Medicine.

      Next, Robin completed her General Surgery residency at the University of Colorado and graduated in 1993 as a general surgeon. She was the only female in her class to graduate and developed an early interest in the field of advanced laparoscopic surgery. In 1996, she returned to Arizona and established an Advanced Laparoscopic General Surgery and Surgical Oncology private practice.

      When her mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and died three years later, Robin decided to change the focus of her career. She was asked to help a local bariatric surgeon learn the laparoscopic approach to gastric bypass. Her father had died at an early age of obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease. She could see his health trajectory in every one of her bariatric patients. In September 2001, she opened the Scottsdale Healthcare Bariatric Center, focusing on establishing medical models for obesity treatments that include both medical and surgical weight loss.

      Robin has received many awards throughout her career. In 2004, she was named to the American College of Surgeons National Faculty in Bariatric Surgery. In 2005, her Center was named an American Society of Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence, an honor repeated in 2008, 2011 and 2014. In 2013, she was the first female voted to serve as the president of The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS).

      Robin was a founding board member of the Obesity Action Coalition, dedicated to promoting access to care for the treatment of obesity and fighting the discrimination and prejudice still found against people suffering from obesity. She is also a Governor of the American College of Surgeons and is the past President of the North American Chapter of the International Federation of Obesity. She is an editor of the new ASMBS textbook on Obesity Surgery and serves on the editorial boards of Obesity Surgery, SOARD and other peer-reviewed publications in the field.

      Robin is also a leading expert in the field of the surgical treatment of obesity and obesity-related diseases. She has dedicated her practice entirely to weight loss surgery and is committed to advocacy, quality of life for the obese, and establishing effective programs for care of patients with obesity that span the medical and surgical continuum.

      Her most recent work with Harvard School of Business has been to establish the Time Driven Activity Based Costing model for obesity surgery and develop a population management program for patients who suffer from obesity. One project she is most passionate about is the education of residents, medical students, physician assistants and nurse practitioners in the science of obesity and related disease. She also teaches an obesity week course at the medical school.

      Interview:

      Dr. Robin Blackstone

      Q: When did you know you wanted to be a doctor?

      A: I grew up in the Grand Canyon National Park, and there weren’t a lot of professional people around. We didn’t have a hospital, but we did have a doctor who had an urgent care clinic. When I was five, I’d torn some ligaments in my foot trying to learn to ski, and I remember this doctor taking care of me. I wrote in my school

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