Dr. Joe Habboushe: Co-founder and CEO of MDCalc (Raise the Line)

Hi, I'm Shivani. Thanks for checking out our raise the line interview series.

In which me and my cohost osmosis chief Medical Officer Dr Rishi Desai explore how to strengthen our healthcare system with some amazing leaders in medicine, technology, education and government and they have some great advice for people starting careers in healthcare as well.

I hope you'll watch these highlights and then go listen to the full podcast interview wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Shivani and today I'm gonna raise the line.

I'm happy to be joined by doctor Joe Hah, who's the CEO and co-founder of MD CALC, which through its smartphone app and website is a leading provider of medical calculators and other tools to help doctors make clinical decisions.

Wow. So I come from a long line of physicians.

My family is from the Middle East. Originally, my parents met in medical school in Iraq in the sixties.

My mother was a female doctor in the sixties in Iraq. I can imagine.

And her and her sisters are all physicians are pretty incredible women. So you can imagine.

I love medicine for all of the reasons that I knew it so well. I was really a math nerd and I also have this part inside me that wanted to fix bigger picture problems, this entrepreneurial kick.

And so eventually I was able to combine it and it took some time for sure. But I really feel so blessed that in my career, I can see patients medically, I can take that medical knowledge, combine it with the math for MD CALC medical calculators and it's a whole entrepreneurial.

Do you have any advice for people who are considering careers or early on in their careers in health care? At this point?

Given all you know, as an entrepreneur, someone who's treated COVID patients, all the things that are going on in the world.

Yeah, I would say I love medicine. I love clinical medicine.

I love seeing patients. I love the interaction.

I love that I get to learn every day and I did not love it when I was a medical student and I was looking for potentially not practicing medicine.

And um I think it's very difficult to see beyond these many years of training to get to the point where you can actually see patients.

Um And so as much as possible, I'd like to encourage folks not to just look a couple of years into the future, which is really difficult for someone in their twenties who are starting out on this path um to, to try to get exposure of what it's like to actually see patients at the end of that path.

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