The Zach Highley Show

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Zach Highley is a medical student in Philadelphia, YouTube creator, and top percentile academic performer. In this show, Zach interviews top performers from around the world in business, life, and medicine. He analyzes what resources and techniques they used to get to the top. New episodes every other Monday at 5 am.

  1. 02/12/2024

    #33 - Goodbye (for now)

    Taking a step away, I'll be back don't worry, thanks so much for the support so far! __ Resources ___ View the Show Notes Page for This Episode for a transcript and more information: zhighley.com/podcast ___ Connect With Zach Main YouTube: @ZachHighley  Newsletter: https://zhighley.com/newsletter/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zachhighley/?hl=en Website: https://zhighley.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/zachhighley Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-highley-gergel-44763766/ Business Inquiries: zachhighley@nebula.tv ___ Listen for Free Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/23TvJdEBAJuW5WY1QHEc6A?si=cf65ae0abbaf46a4 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-zach-highley-show/id1666374777 ___ Welcome to the Zach Highley Show, where we discuss personal growth and medicine to figure out how to improve our lives. My name is Zach a Resident Physician in Boston. Throughout these episodes, I’ll interview top performers from around the world in business, life, and medicine in hopes of extracting the resources and techniques they use to get to the top. The best way to help the show is to share episodes on any platform. If you think a friend or family member will like a certain episode, send it to them! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    2 min

  2. 01/29/2024

    #31 Endocrinologist Interview - Diabetes Breakthroughs, Lifestyle, and True Passion

    SERGE A. JABBOUR, MD, FACP, FACE is a Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolic Diseases at Jefferson. He is also the Director of the Jefferson Diabetes Center. Dr Jabbour completed his training in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolic Diseases at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.Dr Jabbour has been recognized with many honors and he is holder of many teaching awards. Dr Jabbour was named Top Doc in Philadelphia area every year since 2011 by Philadelphia Magazine and one of the best endocrinologists in the nation by Castle Connolly every year since 2012. Dr Jabbour is a member of numerous professional organizations, including The Endocrine Society, American Diabetes Association and American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Dr Jabbour has published many articles and chapters on diabetes, metabolic syndrome, various endocrine topics; he serves on the Editorial Board of many journals and he just finished in September 2021 his 5-year tenure as the Chair of the Endocrine Board Review Committee for The Endocrine Society. Dr Jabbour’s main research interest is in the field of diabetes. He is involved in many clinical research trials related to new diabetes drugs. He also gives many lectures all over the world on different endocrine topics, mainly diabetes, either in the setting of grand rounds, symposia or other CME presentations. I am truly honored to have such an inspiring and world-class endocrinologist with me today. Welcome Dr. Jabbour, let’s see how many people we can convince to do endocrinology. Jefferson Endocrinology: https://www.jeffersonhealth.org/clinical-specialties/endocrinology-diabetes-metabolic-diseases?gclid=CjwKCAjwiOCgBhAgEiwAjv5whBW4FTPRCa_lVxnQI577rjIie4qMEkxca7tNsBwTxndwYCamtYfiMBoCknsQAvD_BwE Jefferson Diabetes Center: https://www.jeffersonhealth.org/clinical-specialties/diabetes-center ___ 0:00 - Intro 1:49 - Statistics About Endocrinology 3:10 - What Is Endocrinology? 5:22 - Journey Into Medicine and Endocrinology 13:07 - Keeping the Team Happy 15:42 - An Average Day/Week of an Endocrinologist 19:40 - Advice for People Looking Into Leveling up Ranks 22:50 - If I Give You $100 Million, What Would You Do? 25:25 - Best Thing About Being an Endocrinologist 27:35 - Making a Rare Diagnosis 32:16 - Passion for Studying Diabetes 34:21 - Things We Should Know About Type 2 & 1 Diabetes 53:06 - What Do You Think About Ozempic and Glp-1? 59:44 - Dietary Tips 1:06:21 - Hemoglobin a1c Levels 1:20:10 - SGLT2 Inhibitors 1:16:48 - Future of Endocrinology 1:19:34 - Changes Over the Years 1:20:17 - Myths About Diabetes 1:24:29 - High Number of Diabetic Patients in the U.S. 1:30:39 - Advice to People Looking Into Endocrinology 1:32:36 - Maximizing Competitiveness Going Into Endocrinology 1:39:00 - What Makes the Best-Med Students/Residents/Fellows? 1:42:28 - Advice to People Entering a Career in Medicine 1:45:17 - What Advice Would You Give Your 18-Year-Old Self? 1:48:20 - Adapting to the U.S. 1:49:43 - Closing Message 1:51:57 - Outro __ Resources Who Moved My Cheese? by Dr Spencer Johnson: https://amzn.eu/d/dZHrYY8 ___ View the Show Notes Page for This Episode for transcript and more information: zhighley.com/podcast ___ Connect With Zach Main YouTube: @ZachHighley Newsletter: https://zhighley.com/newsletter/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zachhighley/?hl=en Website: https://zhighley.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/zachhighley Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-highley-gergel-44763766/ Business Inquiries: zachhighley@nebula.tv ___ Listen for Free Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/23TvJdEBAJuW5WY1QHEc6A?si=cf65ae0abbaf46a4 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-zach-highley-show/id1666374777 ___ Welcome to the Zach Highley Show, where we discuss personal growth and medicine to figure out how to improve our lives. My name is Zach a Resident Physician in Boston. Throughout these episodes I’ll interview top performers from around the world in business, life, and medicine in hopes of extracting the resources and techniques they use to get to the top. The best way to help the show is share episodes on any platform. If you think a friend or family member will like a certain episode, send it to them! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    1h 52m

  3. 01/15/2024

    #30 Hematologist/Oncologist Interview - End of Life, Breaking Bad News, and Lifestyle

    Amy Mackenzie, MD, grew up in Los Angeles but fled the scene in 1994 after college in rural New York to live and work in Japan for 3 years. She decided to pursue medicine at that time and headed back to the states to finish up pre-med work while working for the Japanese Consulate in Los Angeles. She then moved to Philadelphia in 2000 to work and apply to med school, ultimately enrolling at MCP-Hahnemann (now Drexel). After a year as part-time faculty at the med school, she went on to 3 years of IM residency at Temple and subsequently worked as a hospitalist at Fox Chase for a year between residency and fellowship. She completed heme/onc fellowship at Jefferson in 2013 and then became the first oncologist to do a geriatrics fellowship at Jefferson. She has 4 board certifications: internal medicine, hematology, oncology and geriatrics. She is an associate professor and a fellow of the American College of Physicians, actively participates in an older adults task force with ASCO (Amercian Society of Clinical Oncology) and sits on the board of the newly formed American Academy of Geriatric Oncology. Welcome to the show! ___ 0:00 - Intro 1:17 - Statistics About Oncology 2:24 - What Is Hematology Oncology? 7:06 - Journey Into Heme-Oncol. 12:39 - Entering Med School Older Than Most People 19:16 - What Was Heme-Oncol. Fellowship Like? 26:29 - Getting Into Geriatrics 30:07 - What Is It Like Being an Attending? 37:33 - Dealing With Very Sick People 41:23 - Delivering Bad and Good News 50:24 - Lessons Learned From Treating Very Ill Patients 55:32 - An Average Day/Week of a Hematologist Oncologist 1:06:20 - If I Give You $100 Million, What Would You Do? 1:09:09 - Worst Thing About Being a Hematologist Oncologist 1:11:50 - Best Thing About Being a Hematologist Oncologist 1:13:27 - Advice to People Looking Into Hematology Oncology 1:16:36 - Maximizing Competitiveness Going Into Fellowship 1:19:09 - Advice to People Entering a Career in Medicine 1:25:22 - Super Important Question!!! 1:27:24 - Closing Message 1:30:22 - Outro __ Resources ___ View the Show Notes Page for This Episode for transcript and more information: zhighley.com/podcast ___ Connect With Zach Main YouTube: @ZachHighley Newsletter: https://zhighley.com/newsletter/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zachhighley/?hl=en Website: https://zhighley.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/zachhighley Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-highley-gergel-44763766/ Business Inquiries: zachhighley@nebula.tv ___ Listen for Free Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/23TvJdEBAJuW5WY1QHEc6A?si=cf65ae0abbaf46a4 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-zach-highley-show/id1666374777 ___ Welcome to the Zach Highley Show, where we discuss personal growth and medicine to figure out how to improve our lives. My name is Zach a Resident Physician in Boston. Throughout these episodes I’ll interview top performers from around the world in business, life, and medicine in hopes of extracting the resources and techniques they use to get to the top. The best way to help the show is share episodes on any platform. If you think a friend or family member will like a certain episode, send it to them! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    1h 23m

  4. 01/01/2024

    #29 - 42 Life-Changing Thoughts from My Twenty's

    Here are 42 things I learned from my 20s (that I wish I learned earlier). ___ 0:19 - Schedule Everything 0:57 - Call Customer Service 1:35 - Your Parents Are People Too 2:06 - Friends and Family Are Important 2:31 - Aim for People to Respect You, Not to Like You 3:28 - Free Time Is Great 3:55 - Write Emails Like a Human 4:33 - Meditate 5:07 - Journaling 5:32 - Cold Exposure 6:14 - Heat Exposure 6:46 - You Can Do Anything 7:31 - Anger Solves Nothing 8:12 - Listening Is a Learned Skill 8:55 - Writing Is Important 9:53 - Automate and Delegate 11:01 - Reading Is a Superpower 11:48 - Take All the Blame and Give the Credit 12:28 - Try Doing One Thing at a Time 13:27 - The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Oil 14:06 - Everyone Is Shy; Be the Outgoing Person 14:46 - Have a Positive Attitude 15:18 - Your 20’s Matter 16:23 - Saving Won’t Make You Rich 19:37 - It Is Just a Matter of Time 19:57 - Find Advisors and Mentors 21:12 - Win with the Minimum Necessary Target 22:33 - Little Habits Matter More 23:05 - The World Isn’t So Scary 24:16 - Avoid Underemployment 25:23 - Say “No” Most of the Time 25:51 - Say “I Do Not Know” 27:30 - No One Cares and No One Knows 27:44 - Do the Adult Things 28:00 - Don’t Complain 29:00 - Wake Up and Go to Bed at the Same Time 29:04 - You Are the Average of the 5 People You Are With 29:13 - Read More 29:23 - Just Start! 29:43 - Most Things Aren’t Personal 31:18 - Cultivate a Healthy Mind and Body 31:58 - This Too Shall Pass! __ Resources The Defining Decade by Meg Jay: https://amzn.eu/d/1mO3gWe Hell Yeah Or No by Derek Sivers: https://a.co/d/czgdFFn ___ View the Show Notes Page for This Episode for a transcript and more information: zhighley.com/podcast ___ Connect With Zach Main YouTube: @ZachHighley Newsletter: https://zhighley.com/newsletter/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zachhighley/?hl=en Website: https://zhighley.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/zachhighley Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-highley-gergel-44763766/ Business Inquiries: zachhighley@nebula.tv ___ Listen for Free Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/23TvJdEBAJuW5WY1QHEc6A?si=cf65ae0abbaf46a4 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-zach-highley-show/id1666374777 ___ Welcome to the Zach Highley Show, where we discuss personal growth and medicine to figure out how to improve our lives. My name is Zach a Resident Physician in Boston. Throughout these episodes, I’ll interview top performers from around the world in business, life, and medicine in hopes of extracting the resources and techniques they use to get to the top. The best way to help the show is to share episodes on any platform. If you think a friend or family member will like a certain episode, send it to them! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    33 min

  5. 12/18/2023

    #28 Pathologist Interview - Leaving Surgery for Pathology, Lifestyle, and Career Growth

    Dr. Goldberg is from Wilmington, Delaware. She went to UPenn where she majored in the Biological Basis of Behavior, graduated Magna Cum Laude, was judged to have the best honor's thesis in her major and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She went to Albert Einstein College of Medicine for her MD degree and was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. She was a surgery resident here at Jefferson for many years, but changed careers to pathology. She is currently a cytopathologist and gynecologic surgical pathologist. She is also the doting mother to amazing twins and loving wife to her historian husband. Her research focuses on graduate medical education and laboratory quality and safety. In her "spare" time, she loves to ski, row, and watch her kids do karate and play baseball. ___ 0:00 - Intro 1:01 - Statistics About Pathology 4:02 - What Is Pathology? 11:24 - Changing to Pathology From Surgery 29:51 - What Was Residency Like? 32:58 - Specializing After Pathology Residency 38:38 - What Is It Like Being an Attending? 39:43 - An Average Day/Week of a Pathologist 45:28 - If I Give You $100 Million, What Would You Do? 47:21 - Best Thing About Being a Pathologist 49:37 - Worst Thing About Being a Pathologist 55:41 - Myths About Pathologists 57:10 - Characteristics of a Student for Pathology 58:43 - Advice to People Looking Into Pathology 1:01:40 - Maximizing Competitiveness Going Into Pathology 1:07:42 - Future of Pathology 1:14:30 - Advice to People Entering a Career in Medicine 1:18:12 - Book Recommendations 1:22:23 - What Advice Would You Give Your 18-Year-Old Self? 1:25:06 - Positive Qualities & Characteristics 1:28:06 - Finding a Good Program 1:30:19 - Closing Messages 1:32:28 - Outro __ Resources And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts: https://a.co/d/02Hdxqp ___ View the Show Notes Page for This Episode for transcript and more information: zhighley.com/podcast ___ Connect With Zach Main YouTube: @ZachHighley Newsletter: https://zhighley.com/newsletter/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zachhighley/?hl=en Website: https://zhighley.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/zachhighley Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-highley-gergel-44763766/ Business Inquiries: zachhighley@nebula.tv ___ Listen for Free Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/23TvJdEBAJuW5WY1QHEc6A?si=cf65ae0abbaf46a4 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-zach-highley-show/id1666374777 ___ Welcome to the Zach Highley Show, where we discuss personal growth and medicine to figure out how to improve our lives. My name is Zach a Resident Physician in Boston. Throughout these episodes I’ll interview top performers from around the world in business, life, and medicine in hopes of extracting the resources and techniques they use to get to the top. The best way to help the show is share episodes on any platform. If you think a friend or family member will like a certain episode, send it to them! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    1h 17m

  6. 12/04/2023

    #27 Sleep and Family Medicine Doctor Interview - Lifestyle, Expanding Your Career, and Sleep Hacks

    Dr. Rohin Saroya is a family medicine doctor currently practicing family medicine and sleep medicine. He completed his residency at Drexel University and Moved to Jefferson and completed a one-year fellowship in sleep medicine. He is Board certified in both and practicing 80/20% in family medicine and sleep medicine, respectively. He still lives in Philly but is working in central Delaware at Bayhealth. Dr. Saroya is regularly elected as a top teacher, in fact, when searching for an attending doctor to speak to in regards to family medicine, Dr. Saroya was the name that came up 90% of the time. Welcome Dr. Saroya. ___ 0:00 - Intro 0:48 - Statistics About Family Medicine 6:16 - What Is Family Medicine? 10:18 - Journey Into Family Medicine 16:16 - What Was Residency Like? 22:07 - Getting Into Sleep Medicine 23:58 - What Is Sleep Medicine? 25:35 - What Was Sleep Medicine Fellowship Like? 27:32 - Melatonin in Kids 29:09 - Common Mistakes Made in Sleep Hygiene 31:04 - Treating People Struggling With Sleep 33:04 - Sleep Trackers and Devices to Improve Sleep 36:46 - An Average Day of a Family Medicine Doctor 40:12 - Tips for Practicing Medicine in the U.S. From Other Countries 42:42 - What Is It Like Being an Attending? 44:39 - If I Give You $100 Million, What Would You Do? 45:40 - Best Thing About Family Medicine 46:49 - Worst Thing About Family Medicine 47:48 - Dealing With Burnout and Keeping a Good Lifestyle 50:03 - Things You Wish You Knew Before Going Into Family Medicine 51:20 - Myths About Family Medicine 53:05 - What Makes the Best-Med Students/Residents? 57:40 - Future of Your Career 1:02:16 - Advice to People Looking Into Family Medicine 1:04:13 - Maximizing Competitiveness Going Into Residency 1:06:34 - Advice to People Entering Medicine 1:08:21 - Common Mistakes 1:09:08 - Positive Qualities & Characteristics You Admire 1:10:28 - Closing Message for People Looking Into Family Medicine 1:11:31 - Closing Message 1:12:04 - Outro __ Resources ___ View the Show Notes Page for This Episode for a transcript and more information: zhighley.com/podcast ___ Connect With Zach Main YouTube: @ZachHighley Newsletter: https://zhighley.com/newsletter/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zachhighley/?hl=en Website: https://zhighley.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/zachhighley Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-highley-gergel-44763766/ Business Inquiries: zachhighley@nebula.tv ___ Listen for Free Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/23TvJdEBAJuW5WY1QHEc6A?si=cf65ae0abbaf46a4 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-zach-highley-show/id1666374777 ___ Welcome to the Zach Highley Show, where we discuss personal growth and medicine to figure out how to improve our lives. My name is Zach a Resident Physician in Boston. Throughout these episodes, I’ll interview top performers from around the world in business, life, and medicine in hopes of extracting the resources and techniques they use to get to the top. The best way to help the show is to share episodes on any platform. If you think a friend or family member will like a certain episode, send it to them! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    1h 12m

  7. 11/20/2023

    #26 Internal Medicine Resident Interview - Lifestyle, Extracurriculars, and Finding Your Voice

    Gillian is from the larger Philadelphia area and initially studied Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Scranton and worked in social services as a Case Manager after college. She then transitioned to Vaccine Development NIH-funded research as a clinical coordinator at the University of Vermont while taking pre-med classes. She attended medical school at Penn State College of Medicine, where she also earned her Masters in Education and was recognized with the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine award and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. During medical school, she also held multiple statewide and national positions such as Chair for the Committee on Bioethics & Humanities for the American Medical Association-Medical Student Section, Board of Trustee for the Pennsylvania Medical Society, State Director on the Pennsylvania Political Action Committee Board of Directors for the Pennsylvania Medical Society. She was served as an Editorial Fellow with the AMA Journal of Ethics in 2019. She matched at TJUH in Internal Medicine where she was recognized with multiple teaching awards including Hobart Amory Hare Resident Teaching Award, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and teaching award, and the Darilyn Moyer, MD, FACP Professionalism Award for Trainees in Southeastern PA. She is interested in a career in academic hospital medicine and medical education crafting curriculum that incorporates health system science and humanism topics in medicine. ___ 0:00 - Intro 1:29 - Statistics About Internal Medicine 3:55 - What Is Internal Medicine? 7:25 - Why Internal Medicine? 15:18 - What Was IM Residency Like? 17:23 - Plans for Designing a Curriculum 19:22 - Shooting Incident at the Hospital 23:02 - Best Thing About Being an IM Doctor 26:09 - Worst Thing About Being an IM Doctor 27:14 - Work Intensity and an Average Day as a Resident 34:14 - The Best Year of Residency 35:19 - An Average Outpatient Day/Week 38:32 - If I Give You $100 Million, What Would You Do? 43:56 - Things You Wish You Knew Before Coming Into IM 45:33 - Characteristics of a Student Best for IM 50:00 - Advice for People Looking Into Internal Medicine 51:22 - Maximizing Competitiveness Going Into IM Residency 54:03 - Things Learned From Residency 56:53 - Common Mistakes 1:00:49 - Positive Qualities & Characteristics You Admire 1:03:05 - Closing Message 1:04:14 - Outro __ Resources ___ View the Show Notes Page for This Episode for a transcript and more information: zhighley.com/podcast ___ Connect With Zach Main YouTube: @ZachHighley Newsletter: https://zhighley.com/newsletter/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zachhighley/?hl=en Website: https://zhighley.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/zachhighley Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-highley-gergel-44763766/ Business Inquiries: zachhighley@nebula.tv ___ Listen for Free Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/23TvJdEBAJuW5WY1QHEc6A?si=cf65ae0abbaf46a4 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-zach-highley-show/id1666374777 ___ Welcome to the Zach Highley Show, where we discuss personal growth and medicine to figure out how to improve our lives. My name is Zach a Resident Physician in Boston. Throughout these episodes, I’ll interview top performers from around the world in business, life, and medicine in hopes of extracting the resources and techniques they use to get to the top. The best way to help the show is to share episodes on any platform. If you think a friend or family member will like a certain episode, send it to them! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    1h 3m

  8. 11/06/2023

    #25 Colorectal Surgeon Interview - Lifestyle, Difficult Cases, and Career Progression

    Dr. Isenberg is a professor of surgery at SKMC and the vice chair of surgical education here at Jefferson as well. He is specialized in colorectal surgery. He went to medical school at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, trained in surgery at Lenox hill hospital, and completed is colorectal surgery fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University. He is the editor-in-chief for ACS case reviews in surgery, the immediate past president of the TJUH medical staff, the immediate past chair of Colorectal RC of ACGME and the past VP of ASCRS. He is a widely loved teacher and leader here at Jefferson. I personally had an amazing experience working as a medical student in his team here at Jefferson and because of how amazing an experience I had, I came very close to picking surgery as opposed to internal medicine. He has won multiple teaching awards, including Dean’s career educator award in 2020. ___ 0:00 - Intro 1:07 - Statistics About Colorectal Surgery 1:39 - What Is Colorectal Surgery? 2:32 - Why Colorectal Surgery? 5:53 - Choosing Surgery During Med School 7:29 - What Was General Surgery Residency Like? 8:26 - Going Into Colorectal Surgery 9:49 - What Is It Like Being an Attending? 12:08 - An Average Week of a Colorectal Surgeon 13:42 - Being In Academia 15:20 - If I Give You $100 Million, What Would You Do? 18:25 - Making Curricular Changes in Skmc 21:47 - Best Thing About Colorectal Surgery 23:47 - Worst Thing About Colorectal Surgery 24:45 - What Makes the Best-Med Students/Residents/Fellows? 27:12 - Advice to Students Doubting About Surgery 28:39 - Maximizing Competitiveness Going Into Surgery 30:00 - Changes in Colorectal Surgery Over the Years 32:17 - Future of Colorectal Surgery 33:19 - Dealing With Burnout and Keeping a Good Lifestyle 38:25 - Clinic vs Operating Room 39:26 - Advice to New Attendings 39:47 - Advice to People Entering a Career in Medicine 42:02 - Any Mistakes That You Made Throughout Your Career/Life? 44:27 - Book Recommendations 48:55 - What Advice Would You Give Your 18-Year-Old Self? 49:34 - Closing Message 54:39 - Very Important Question! 55:00 - Outro __ Resources An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield: https://a.co/d/biHgWmw The Book of Joy by Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Abrams: https://a.co/d/eSZdL0i When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner: https://a.co/d/em0VH6I ___ View the Show Notes Page for This Episode for a transcript and more information: zhighley.com/podcast ___ Connect With Zach Main YouTube: @ZachHighley Newsletter: https://zhighley.com/newsletter/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zachhighley/?hl=en Website: https://zhighley.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/zachhighley Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-highley-gergel-44763766/ Business Inquiries: zachhighley@nebula.tv ___ Listen for Free Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/23TvJdEBAJuW5WY1QHEc6A?si=cf65ae0abbaf46a4 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-zach-highley-show/id1666374777 ___ Welcome to the Zach Highley Show, where we discuss personal growth and medicine to figure out how to improve our lives. My name is Zach a Resident Physician in Boston. Throughout these episodes, I’ll interview top performers from around the world in business, life, and medicine in hopes of extracting the resources and techniques they use to get to the top. The best way to help the show is to share episodes on any platform. If you think a friend or family member will like a certain episode, send it to them! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Zach Highley is a medical student in Philadelphia, YouTube creator, and top percentile academic performer. In this show, Zach interviews top performers from around the world in business, life, and medicine. He analyzes what resources and techniques they used to get to the top. New episodes every other Monday at 5 am.

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  • Creator
    Zach Highley
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    32
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