Skin & Bones: Recent Episodes

Skin & Bones

The Skin & Bones podcast features Dr. Peter Gust, a dermatologist, and Dr. Zachary (Zak) Hill, an orthopedic surgeon, discussing issues in medicine, religion, sports, finance and pop-culture. Everything is on the table for contrasting banter when these two medical school buddies flip on the microphone.

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Episode Highlights:

  • Zak’s elective experience
  • Boston
  • Grand rounds
  • Elon musk and Twitter
  • National medical conferences
  • NBA playoffs
  • Private vs. academic medicine
  • And more!

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Episode Highlights:

  • Changes to USMLE Step 1
  • Personal experience with USMLE Step 1
  • What makes a good doctor
  • How to gauge discipline among medical students
  • Detroit style pizza
  • PSA for Dermatology
  • PSA tips to avoid seeing Zak on his Trauma rotation
  • Other ramblings…

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Episode Highlights:

  • Zak’s version of Lent
  • Reaching the finish line
  • State of the union
  • Baseball lockout
  • College basketball fights
  • Couch shopping
  • Utah skiing adventures

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Episode Highlights:

  • Moving and shaking in residency
  • Pros and cons of medicine on television
  • Minimal Super Bowl predictions
  • Sights and sounds of the OR
  • Clinic life
  • Long distance residency interviews
  • Self reflection
  • Asking the right questions
  • Drive for efficiency
  • And more…

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Skin & Bones Podcast - Episode #7 - The mandate debate - with special guest Jared Clark, J.D.

Episode Highlights:

  • Attorney lingo
  • Medical malpractice
  • Theranos corporation case
  • Supreme Court ruling on vaccine mandates
  • And more…

Thanks again to Jared Clark, J.D.

We’ve learned a lot from your insight today! Hope to have you on the podcast again sometime soon.

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Skin & Bones Podcast - Episode #6 - Through the years with special guest Dr. Daniel Joe
Episode Highlights:

  • Sickness in the Hill household
  • Medicine/pediatrics residency
  • Challenges treating both kids and adults
  • Importance of reference resources
  • Fatherhood
  • Tough circumstances
  • The art of active listening
  • Imposter syndrome
  • Setting professional boundaries
  • Stethoscopes
  • MLS/Soccer popularity in the USA
  • Hockey skills

Thanks again to our first guest Dr. Daniel Joe. Be on the look out for future guests that are sure to bring a ton of insight to the podcast!

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Skin & Bones Podcast - Episode #5 - Pre-Holiday Thoughts

Episode Highlights:

  • What happened to Zak last episode?
  • Qualities that help medical students succeed
  • Pre-med advice
  • Collaborative aspect of medicine
  • New Years resolutions
  • Goal setting
  • Seeing the forrest through the trees; importance of seeing the big picture

Hoping to have guests on the podcast within the next couple of episodes. Stay tuned! We are excited for what the upcoming year has to bring.

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Skin & Bones Podcast - Episode #4 - The Interrupted Journey

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Episode Highlights:

  • Journey to finding medicine
  • College differences
  • MCAT woes… encouragement to pre-meds
  • Perspectives on hardships in life
  • Reflections on naive perspectives
  • Mink dissections…
  • Grammar vs. football players
  • Growing as a person since medical school acceptance
  • Motivations for becoming a physician
  • Intelligence on a scale
  • Trauma surgery doesn’t sleep… Podcast interruption

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Skin & Bones Podcast - Episode #3 - Fake it, until you make it

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Episode Highlights:

  • Tough work week for Zak
  • Is work life balance possible?
  • Fancy orthopedic surgery lingo
  • Self-care & resiliency
  • Living situations in medical school
  • Connections, relationships, fellowship
  • The art of listening - Shout out to Dr. Daniel Joe
  • Solicitation for new hobbies
  • Medical school memories
  • Anatomy lab experiences
  • Air-soft battles
  • Thoughts on ability and skillset of medical students
  • Shifting life perspectives
  • Adapting to new realities/challenges
  • Pros and cons of “faking it, until you make it”
  • USA rants by Zak
  • Peter questioning waiters & waitresses at restaurants
  • Zak’s view of healthy relationships
  • Eggnog & Sprite?
  • Orthopedic surgeon attire
  • Topical steroids PSA
  • Paying it forward… with exceptions

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Skin & Bones Podcast Episode #2 - Time, talent, and treasure

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Episode Highlights:

  • Financial burden of private medical schools
  • Physician compensation
  • The White Coat Investor
  • “Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades” and other Zak idioms
  • Personal Finance
  • Losing the meaning of Christmas
  • Avoiding stigma in patient care
  • Desensitized to corporate agenda in America
  • Cuddle therapy & The Kardashians
  • Loan refinance offers clogging our mailboxes
  • Thoughts on complimentary and alternative medicine (CAM)
  • Time constraints placed on physician/patient relationship
  • Seizure &. therapy dogs
  • Proactiv, Rodan & Fields
  • Dating in 2021
  • Peter’s long term plans for Austin
  • What is a meta analysis?
  • Pets in the Gust and Hill households
  • Wrapping our minds around government spending
  • The housing market
  • The Circle on Netflix
  • Multilevel marketing (MLM)
  • Personal Finance
  • Packers stunning loss to the Vikings
  • Golfing struggles

White Coat Investor: https://amzn.to/3DCIEkp

The White Coat Investor: A Doctor's Guide To Personal Finance And Investing (The White Coat Investor Series)

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Skin & Bones Podcast - Episode #1 - The Introduction

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Episode Highlights:

  • Introductions
  • College football and the NFL
  • The impact of mentors
  • “The Great Resignation”
  • Hourly wages
  • General impact of the covid pandemic
  • Transitions in life
  • Social media impact on popular opinion
  • Dynamic changes in medicine
  • Public health vs. personal autonomy
  • Cancel culture is a two way street
  • Tom Brady
  • Jeffrey Bezos jealousy, controversy with Leo DiCaprio
  • Suspect politicians and billionaires
  • Philanthropy
  • Nurturing past relationships
  • California nostalgia
  • Medical literature and critical appraisal of evidence
  • Cryptocurrency (ETH, BTC), Hedge funds
  • The Bachelor, Goliath, dancing with the stars
  • Aaron Rodgers and Covid vaccines/Immunizations
  • Medical education/medical school
  • Resident physicians and medical students
  • Balanced lifestyles & lifestyle changes
  • Paternalistic vs. collaborative medicine approaches
  • Building new habits

Jeff Bezos tweet: https://twitter.com/jeffbezos/status/1457720343297019909

Dopesick on Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/series/dopesick-227de06a-d3d4-42e0-9df1-bb5495e1738d