“I Care About You as a Fellow Human”: In Conversation With Dr. Stacy Wentworth

The Accelerators (Drs. Matt Spraker and Simul Parikh) host Dr. Stacy Wentworth, Radiation Oncologist, Author, and Podcaster!

We discuss her career and how she developed her voice as a physician content creator. Do not miss her Less Radical narrative podcast about the life of Bernie Fisher, it is a masterpiece!

In this episode, we cover our experiences with our evolving careers. As a radiation oncologists solidify their clinical and technical expertise, how can they expand their ability to help the world?

We discuss developing a voice outside the mainstream communication channels of medicine and academics, and going a different way. As radiation oncologists, it's in our DNA.

Editors note: Don't miss Simul's Substack post related to this show, "How to Publish Outside of the Academic 'Priesthood'".

Here are some other things mentioned during the show:

• Subscribe to Stacy's Substack, Cancer Culture
• Stacy's most popular article, Why Your Doctor is Leaving You
• Why Mars is Boring and Cancer is Not, by Stacy Wentworth
• Healthcare A to Z with Eric Bricker
• Zotero organizational software
• Eric Topol's Ground Truths 
• Will Dowd's monthly Lunar Dispatch
• How to start writing on Substack 
• An Inconvenient Truth, by Graypeace
• A biography of Juan Del Regato (ROI Institute)
• The NSABP
• Shibamoto and Takano, Non-surgical management of operable breast cancer review
• Hess et al., Phase 1 trial of low-dose radiotherapy for COVID-19

The Accelerators Podcast is a Photon Media production.