The Truth About The Medical Industry, Hospitals, Medicine, & A Medical Career Ft. John Lawrence, Author Of Playing Doctor

The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast

Dear Media

Education, Business

4.5 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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#650: Today, we're sitting down with John Lawrence, author of the series 'Playing Doctor.' John attended Georgetown University where he told his career advisor that the only thing he did not want to be was a doctor. He subsequently survived medical school and residency training in Utah and practiced for over 20 years before transitioning to becoming a writer, where he shares his best and scariest moments from practicing. Today, we sit down for a conversation about all things medical school, what happens behind the scenes in hospitals, and how he transitioned to becoming a writer. He also puts on his white coat again and gives us a few tips on when you should take your children to the ER, why overprescribing pain meds has become such a large issue in the US, and gives us a peek into teaching hospitals and what you should know about them.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.8	She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinary.
0:07.5	Fantastic.
0:08.5	And he's a serial entrepreneur.
0:10.8	A very smart cookie.
0:12.1	And now Lauren Evertz and Michael Bostick are bringing you along for the ride.
0:16.0	Get ready for some major realness.
0:18.0	Welcome to the skinny confidential, him and her. You know, the way I got into these stories was basically writing emails to friends back before blogs existed.
0:30.0	You know, it was back in the 19, late 90s. and I'd send these email blasts out when I was on call at
0:35.5	three in the morning, just this crazy stream of consciousness that would leave my friends asking,
0:39.2	you know, are you breaking into the pharmacy or something?
0:41.4	Or, you know? Just random thoughts.
0:43.4	Emergency amputation, this person who got septic
0:46.2	and was dying, and he didn't want to have his leg coat
0:48.3	up, but if we don't cut this off,
0:49.4	we couldn't get in touch with the intending doctors,
0:51.6	and the residents say, well, we got to do it and he's going to die if we don't get this thing off so
0:55.6	they're like all right John you got to go bring it down to this is in the VA hospital
0:59.0	some walking around with this leg in a garbage bag I'm thinking it's three in the morning on a
1:03.6	Saturday my friends aren't doing this they're all having a great time together they're
1:06.2	out parting and I'm doing this.
1:09.4	Welcome back to the him and Her Show. We are doing something fun today. One of my
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