Using Video to Educate Patients

Dr. Timothy Johans, a Boise neurosurgeon, is among a handful of local physicians who use videos about their specialty to educate and prepare patients for what they can expect from treatment, before and after surgery.

Goals and Creativity in Medicine

Introducing Peter Abraham, D.O.

Dr. Abraham rotated through Boise during his 3rd year of medical school in Boise, performed his residency at Genesys Regional Medical Center, and returned to Idaho to start practicing. In this clip, he talks about his goals in medicine and how he stays creative in his approach.

Increasing Stickiness and Decreasing Friction

Michael Boerner is a serial entrepreneur in Boise Idaho with over 27 years of experience founding and leading media and technology companies. He is responsible for raising over $24M in capital and is the architect of a number of enterprise video technologies enabling the intelligent organization and delivery of personalized and sequenced video engagement.


In this episode, he encourages physicians to think about how to make the important information they convey to patients memorable and how to reduce friction in behavior change.

Finding Your Sense of Self Again

Chris Peine, D.O. from Eagle Idaho talks about his own personal journal through burnout and what he did to create a medical practice he enjoys coming back to from vacation.

Have You Lost Your Sense of Creativity?

It may do you well to ask yourself if have lost your sense of creativity (and humor) thanks to your perpetual steeping in logical problem solving, evidenced based medicine, and science. As Albert Einstein has famously said, "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."