#115 Think Like a Doctor to Make Executive Decisions — Dr John Whyte (Chief Medical Officer, WebMD)

Big Picture Medicine

Dr John Whyte is the Chief Medical Officer of WebMD, he’s also worked at Director level at the FDA and was also Chief Medical Expert at the Discovery Channel.

0:00 Intro

0:54 Anxiety as a content creator

2:33 Why should executives think like physicians?

7:23 Decision-making with limited information

10:47 Bayesian reasoning

12:57 Risk, acuity and stress

15:28 What should we NOT learn from physicians?

17:06 Future of health communication, health influencers

22:29 Regulation for health influencers?

24:22 Habit: I've never applied for a job

26:53 Networking building

28:24 Introspection as a habit for success

John runs a course called 'Think Like a Doctor to Make Executive Decisions' — and I ask about different frameworks executives can pick up from doctors and use in non-healthcare settings (such as bayesian reasoning and assessing what is a symptom vs a cause).

John’s also a veteran of the health communication space, and we discuss where the future of health content is going, and the art of storytelling.

John's course: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/think-like-a-doctor-to-make-executive-decisions

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