124: Time is Life with Doc Brian Tan

Good Mornings with Nicole and Prax

Welcome to today’s episode where we share a meaningful conversation with Doctor Brian Tan or Doc Bry, as he is widely known.

Doc Bran Tan is the owner of The Royal British Medical, Dental and Cosmetic Care Centers in Pampanga.

Doc Bry is a scholar and a Cum Laude graduate of the Angeles University Foundation where he took up his pre-med and medicine courses. He later on attended the post grad education as a scholar at the prestigious Harvard Medical School. Later on he also attended the Harvard Business School. He is the first person I’ve personally met who’ve attended this Ivy League school.

Doc Bry is an active part of his community. We met him at the Young Entrepreneur’s of Pampanga meet-up. He is the President of the Philippine Medical Informatics Society. And the Vice President and Board of Trustees member of the Philippine Academy of Aesthetic Surgery. He is also the head of the Ben Tan Foundation - a foundation his family started in memory of his father.

Aside from helping people from his profession and businesses, Doc Bry enjoys sharing his personal inspirations @DocBry’s Inspiration, and the things that make him laugh at @DocBry’s Humor.

In this episode, we talk about:

• The unusual route he took to get into Harvard School of Medicine
• Why he considers himself not as a businessman but, a problem solver.
• Why he believes that if you’re not going to help others when you have 100pesos, you’ll never help others when you have millions.

He explains,

• Why we should surround ourselves with people smarter than us.
• The reason why he equates life with time, and how we can better manage our time by ranking our priorities.
• And how we can flip failures by turning them into lessons.

We also talk about why he calls himself the Happiness Vampire and his childhood dreams prior to becoming a doctor.

Without further ado, I hope you enjoy this wide ranging conversation with, Doctor Brian Tan.