Dr. John Whyte: Chief Medical Officer of WebMD (Raise the Line)
Hi, I'm Sh Ghani. Thanks for checking out the raise line interview series.
In which me and my cohost doctor Rishi Desai and registered nurse, Janna Amil, 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.
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I'm really privileged to be joined by Doctor John White, who's the chief medical officer of Web MD. Web MD, as you know, is a leading healthcare website in the United States with nearly 130 million users viewing billions of pages each month.
In this role of web MD. John Le efforts to develop partnerships to create meaningful change around important public health issues.
John's career has included government service at the FDA, as well as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and being the chief medical expert and Vice President for health and Education at the Discovery Channel.
So you have an impressive background spanning media and government and medicine. Can you tell our audience a bit more about what led you uh first to medicine and then also to these other areas?
Sure, I've always been interested in science and I felt that medicine could provide this combination of II like people as well as like science.
First. I thought I'd be a surgeon.
Then I thought I, I would, you know, be at a big academic medical center, you know, II never thought I'd be involved in, in health communication, I in media and I do still see patients here in the Washington DC area.
But it, it's a little different than what I initially went in it for. And, and I really evolved from wanting to treat that individual patient in front of me to, to populations of patients, you know, given that you are one of the main M DS at web MD.
Uh you put it in the name. Um What is your advice to our audience of current and future healthcare professionals about being the challenges of COVID and beyond?
Yeah. You know what I tell people is, you know, and I kind of said it early on.
I never thought I would be an immediate company, but I always networked. I always reached out to people that I thought were doing interesting work and now more than ever it's easier to do.
And I've always been responsive to students and residents and other people early on in their career. Writing to me and people should feel free to email me or shoot me a note about what they want to accomplish in their career and how they can go about doing it.
I mean, for me, it was always about, I wanna be a good clinician and I still see patients because that's important to my identity, but it's also important to my roles.
I feel I'm a better chief medical officer at Web MD because I see patients. I thought it was the same when I was at FDA and CMS that our policies and our regulations to my clinical practice.
So it, it's really that balance and, and sometimes you have to create your own opportunity. This role actually believe it or not at Web MD did not exist prior to my arrival.
So in, in many ways, you also have to think about what do you wanna do and then talk to those folks who are doing similar things.
You don't have to be limited to, to what's currently available or what y you think you're supposed to be doing? But rather where your passion is in, in your interest live.
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