Josh Golomb & Jeannie Chen: Hazel Health (Raise the Line)

Hi, I'm Shiva. Lanni.

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 on Raise Line, I'm really happy to be joined by an old friend of mine, Doctor Bradley Yn, who's the chief medical officer of 98.6 an A I powered text based mobile platform where us board certified physicians can provide primary care.

Dr Jern brings nearly 20 years of experience working as a physician and still practices as an emergency medicine doc at Evergreen Health where he also serves as the medical director of emergency preparedness, trauma and urgent care.

He has also earned both the bronze star and the combat medic badge for his service in Iraq as a US army physician. So for our audience, one of the first things we like to begin with.

Just how did you get involved in uh in health care? What made you decide to become an emergency doc and also to enlist in the army.

Yeah, I went to the military medical school and got, and I was very interested in uh disaster in humanitarian medicine. So that was the primary reason I had gone into emergency medicine and did spend a fair amount of time in my military years supporting that uh that area of work.

What happened obviously, 911 was we found a lot of us were down range supporting soldier care in Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.

And I got involved in procuring technology on the battlefield and really saw early on how that scale to save lives has sort of ended up being a really pinnacle change for my career where I really started to focus on medical device and digital healthcare technologies and how those can save lives at a larger scale.

That led me to my first uh chief medical officer job at me back in 2013 when we met 2012 time frame and then um spent some time at a global health company before moving to Q Health, which is doing at home, uh lab testing and diagnostics and then came to 98.6 at the end of 2016.

The last question is you, you're your physician, you've done a lot of innovative things and maintained your practice. What advice do you have for current, uh, students who are considering careers or already on their journeys, uh, to careers in healthcare?

So easy now to look back. I graduated med school in 1999 but I struggled to figure out what hesitancy to do what was, you know, and I think in the end I made a decision, which was right for me at the time, which wasn't about tech, but it was about this motivation around disaster man medicine.

Because that was one of my heart finding what's in your heart. And going after that, you'll be a better doctor for it and finding mentors in that space that can guide you that you look ahead 20 years and you find those people, whether it's technology and healthcare, whether it's traditional healthcare modalities, finding a role model and mentors is critical.

I find them. Now when I got into health care, I started me meeting with the doctor Bill Crown who was the CMO of Microsoft at the time because I just wanted to talk to people who have been positions in technology and those kinds of relationships are incredibly valuable to me even today.

So from a medical student perspective, that's critical, you never know which way is the financial real world will turn. Don't, don't select bodies of work based on financial enumeration.

Uh Find out based on motivation and things that you'll get up. You wanna get up every morning, you'll be excited about the work you do.

That's how, that's how medicine is a long lasting career. Thanks for watching this preview of Raised Line to hear the full interview.

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