Dr Faye Bate's 5-App Medical Creator Stack

Dr Faye Bate is a practicing physician who somehow found time to build a YouTube channel debunking health misinformation. Started creating content in 2022 when COVID misinfo was everywhere and qualified doctors were staying silent.

Her videos break down complex medical topics into language actual humans can understand. Vaccine mechanisms. Hormone replacement therapy. Nutrition science versus diet culture nonsense. All backed by peer-reviewed research, not wellness influencer vibes.

Balancing clinical practice with content creation is genuinely hard. Patient care can't be rushed. Videos need proper research and fact-checking. The Dr Faye Bate tools below reflect someone maximizing limited time without cutting corners on medical accuracy.

She films one day weekly, usually Sunday when clinic is closed. Batch records 3-4 videos, then edits throughout the week during gaps between patient appointments. It's not glamorous, but it works without requiring her to quit medicine.

xTiles replaced her original system of 47 Google Docs scattered across folders. Each video topic gets its own visual board where research, script drafts, and reference links live together.

Medical topics are complicated. Explaining hormone replacement therapy requires organizing endocrinology studies, patient case examples, common misconceptions, and relevant medical guidelines. The card-based layout lets her see everything at a glance instead of toggling between 15 tabs.

She tried Notion first but found it too rigid. xTiles feels more like spreading research papers across a desk, which matches how her brain organizes complex information during medical school.

Templates save time on recurring content types. Myth-busting videos follow the same structure: claim, evidence review, verdict. Having that template ready means she can script faster instead of starting from scratch every time.

Google Calendar prevents the disaster of double-booking patient consultations and filming sessions. Separate calendars for clinic, content, and personal life all sync to one master view.

Hospital shifts show up in red. Filming days in purple. Admin work in blue. At a glance she knows if Wednesday afternoon is open for recording or already blocked for patient care.

Color-coding sounds basic but it's essential when context-switching between doctor mode and creator mode. The visual separation helps her brain shift gears instead of bleeding clinical stress into creative work.

Time blocks protect deep work. Two-hour slots for filming can't be interrupted by non-urgent emails or last-minute meeting requests. If it's blocked as filming time, it's sacred unless there's a genuine patient emergency.

Toggl Track answers the question keeping her up at night: is YouTube worth the time investment versus seeing more patients?

Clinical hours get tracked separately from content creation. Weekly reports show exactly where the 60-70 hour work weeks actually went. Turns out she was spending 15 hours weekly on YouTube while thinking it was only 8-10.

The data forced honest conversations about sustainability. AdSense plus sponsorships weren't matching her medical consulting rate yet. But the impact metrics (comments from patients making better health decisions) justified continuing despite lower hourly earnings.

Toggl also revealed editing was eating 6 hours per video. Hired an editor in August 2024, reclaimed those hours for patient care and research. Time tracking enabled that decision with actual data instead of gut feeling.

Notion is the master database for everything content-related. Video ideas. Research papers. Content calendar. Sponsorship tracking. All searchable, all linked together.

Patient cases that inspire videos get anonymized and stored with relevant medical literature. Someone asks about intermittent fasting during a consultation. That question becomes a video topic with the research already linked in Notion.

The medical reference library links directly to PubMed studies for fact-checking scripts. When she claims something in a video, the citation lives in Notion ready to drop into the description. No scrambling to remember where she read that statistic.

Templates for different video types speed up production. Myth-busting format. Research breakdown format. Q&A format. Instead of reinventing structure every video, she fills in the template and focuses on the actual medical content.

Anara manages her personal health tracking as a reality check. Easy to tell patients about sleep hygiene and stress management while ignoring your own declining metrics.

Sleep data, stress levels, recovery scores. When content creation starts bleeding into self-care time, Anara's dashboard calls it out with hard numbers. Can't preach evidence-based health advice while running yourself into the ground.

Also provides content inspiration. Her own struggles with work-life balance and burnout prevention become relatable talking points. Transparency about her health data makes the advice feel real instead of preachy doctor lecturing.

Monthly reviews show trends over time. Sleep quality tanked in November when filming schedule got aggressive. The data forced a calendar adjustment, moving filming to every other Sunday instead of weekly. Sometimes you need objective metrics to admit you're overdoing it.