Anish "Andy" Goday, MD

Dr. Goday is brash, a little cocky, but funny and sarcastic. He's just a few credits shy of an MBA. His dad was a doctor, and his mother a very traditional Indian woman. He and his wife, Gabriella Hernandez, have an infant son named Henry.

Originally from Long Island, Dr. Goday graduated from Franklin and Marshall, but he went to med school at Ohio State just to get some more distance between him and his mother. He did his residency in internal medicine at Penn and his fellowship in gastroenterology at Jeff. He loves Philly but didn’t want to be an academic in a huge group, so he took the job several years ago with Riverside Gastroenterology.

Dr. Goday, who tells all the office staff to call him Andy or Dr. Andy, has given up ties and white coats because of their high level of contamination. His medical mantra is: “That procedure/test/diagnosis/treatment doesn’t correspond to the evidence-based literature.” He doesn’t go anywhere without his iPhone, on which he has all the Epocrates tools and uses them extensively. He does almost all of his CME online. He has relatively little contact with his physician colleagues. He’d actually rather have friends who are NOT physicians.

Andy views himself as something of an expert on business and economics. He isn’t afraid to let the office management and medical group administration know his opinion about their strategy and decisions. And he isn’t usually very tactful about it. Other opinions and attitudes held by Dr. Goday:

He should not have to take call any more often than his more experienced colleague.

Being a physician is his job, not who he is.

Andy is pushing for the practice to hire more PAs or CRNPs to do the intake work, follow up, etc.

He belongs to the national and state gastro specialty societies. He knows there are state and local societies but he doesn’t know what they do. The AMA turns him off.

The office staff can’t help but like Andy. He’s good looking, funny, friendly, asks about the staff members’ kids and pets, and generally behaves like one of the gang.

On the other hand, Andy gets perturbed when there are “minor” mistakes (like when a staff person tells him the wrong room for his next patient) and there is never any doubt who's boss.