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Medical Misfits

Medical Misfits

Oliver Eidel

Medical Misfits is a podcast about doctors who don't work as doctors. They tell you why they left the hospital, what they're doing now and if you should do the same.

9 - Ulrich Nitsche: From Surgeon To Tüv Süd, And How To Combine Emergency Medicine With An Office Job
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  • 9 - Ulrich Nitsche: From Surgeon To Tüv Süd, And How To Combine Emergency Medicine With An Office Job

    Ulrich is one of those very rare physicians who ended up leaving the hospital after spending a considerable amount of time in it. After studying medicine in Austria, he worked and qualified as a surgeon in Munich, where he also did research and completed his habilitation. While he still was (and is) very passionate about surgery, he decided to change his career by leaving the hospital and starting to work as a clinical reviewer at Tüv Süd. He’s been there for some time now, and nowadays he works as a department manager there for a team of doctors like him. I think Ulrich’s story is interesting because there simply aren’t many physicians like him who decide to leave the hospital at such a “late” stage - most people I know leave after medical school or after one or two years of working. Further, Ulrich’s job at Tüv Süd is also not something which I’ve heard of so far - the most common jobs we’ve heard of on this podcast were about software development or working at startups. While he now works at Tüv Süd, he still works as an emergency physician from time to time. That means that he drives around in an ambulance with a team of paramedics. I think that’s really cool! If you’re also in the hospital, working long shifts and considering making a change, Ulrich’s story could be very interesting for you. Enjoy!

    Sat, 29 Jul 2023 - 1h 25min
  • 8 - Zoe Lee: How To Join a Tech Startup As a Medical Student

    Let me start off by saying that Zoe is doing exactly the things which I should have done while I was in medical school. During her second year in medical school, she decided she wanted to try out something different on the side, and sent out around 30-40 applications for internships in various companies. That landed her her current part-time job at Melon, an EdTech startup where she works as Community Associate. I met Zoe quite randomly via LinkedIn as I saw one of her posts about how she get her tech job as a doctor. I thought that was really cool because not many medical students even consider the possibility of working at a tech startup during medical school - or even after medical school, for that matter. I was super excited to talk to Zoe because I think that many listeners of this podcast, especially medical students and junior doctors, could be very interested to learn about her experiences: How the hell do you get a tech startup job as a medical student? And how do you make it work, is there even enough time? And, if she had to choose, which job would she prefer right now?

    Mon, 24 Jul 2023 - 1h 15min
  • 7 - Stephen Gilbert: Professor for Regulatory Science

    I feel like that, with each guest I describe here, I always start off with “man, this person was really interesting and we had so much to talk about”. So I don’t want to sound repetitive or so, but man, Stephen Gilbert really was quite interesting and we had so much to talk about - so much that we ended up going over our scheduled time of one hour. There’s so much to unpack here. First off, we talked about Stephen graduating as a veterinarian (to those non-native English speakers: that’s a doctor who treats animals) and how he started working on the food and mouth disease outbreak in the UK. That already could probably fill a podcast! We did however manage to move on and talked about him transitioning first into research and then into working at a medical device manufacturer, Biotronik, in Berlin. After that, he worked at Ada (like a few other guests on this podcast). Now, he’s a professor for regulatory science at the University Hospital in Dresden. What the hell is regulatory science? Glad you ask, because that’s one of many things we talk about on the podcast. But that’s not it - we also went further into the topic of “ChatGPT” and other large language models in Healthcare, the promises they offer and the (regulatory) problems we might encounter when bringing them to patients. So, you see, we covered a lot. Listen to this episode to hear it for yourself!

    Wed, 21 Jun 2023 - 1h 22min
  • 6 - Johan Hedevåg: Ex-Director of Product at Kry, Founding Partner at 4scale Ventures, Professional Poker Player

    Damn, where should I start - maybe with the fact that Johan was a professional poker player and, as a medical student, would spend nights playing poker to earn some money on the side? Or with the fact that he also worked as a warehouse worker, as a nurse, and was a semi-professional soccer player? Suffice to say, there are so many interesting things about Johan that one hour’s worth of time in the podcast only enabled us to scratch the surface. Still, I really enjoyed scratching the surface by talking to Johan for an hour and I hope that other people find our conversation similarly fun and insightful. Johan Hedevåg is a doctor, product manager, co-founder of and advisor and investor in Healthcare companies. He also worked as a warehouse worker, as a nurse in a hospital, as a teacher and was a semi-professional soccer player and a professional poker player and coach. He is best known as being the Senior Director of Product at Kry which is a telemedicine company from Sweden. He left Kry in 2021 and has since founded his own company called 4scale Ventures. With 4scale Ventures, Johan supports companies to reach their ambitions on growth, efficiency and leadership. Concretely, they invest in companies and offer consulting and coaching. I actually met Johan virtually when he was trying to recruit me for Kry. That recruiting obviously didn’t work, but we got along pretty well and loosely stayed in touch in the following years. Our conversation was not limited to the typical “medical misfit” questions on why he didn’t end up working as a doctor, but we also went further and talked about Digital Health in general. If you’re interested in that, too, you should definitely tune in!

    Fri, 2 Jun 2023 - 1h 05min
  • 5 - Fabienne Cotte: Managing Clinical Trials While Surfing in Asia

    The first thing which struck me when talking to Fabienne was that she was currently working from Bali. She’s an avid surfer and she describes it as a dream come true to be able to surf everyday while working remotely. The second thing which I found really interesting was that Fabienne was the first guest ever on my podcast who considers going back to the hospital as a doctor at some stage. Not due to unhappiness in her current job but simply because she enjoyed working with patients. But before I get ahead of myself, let’s start at the beginning! Fabienne Cotte is a doctor and now working as a clinical studies team lead at Ada Health in Berlin. She studied medicine in Berlin and started working at Ada Health as a medical student on the medical knowledge team. After that, she worked in the clinical evaluation team before joining Ada Health full-time after graduating as a doctor. Now, she’s working in the area of clinical studies, which I was quite excited to talk about with her because I could imagine that many medical students and doctors could be interested in working in a similar area themselves. And that’s exactly why I think Fabienne is a great guest: While her career path is yet another one from those we’ve seen, it’s still something which seems viable for many medical students and junior doctors out there. After all, she still is working in a somewhat medical capacity as she’s dealing with clinical trials.

    Fri, 26 May 2023 - 1h 02min
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