Episode #38: "We are just one person doing our best!" with Dr. Ryan McCarthy and Dr. Tom Wright

Dr. Ryan McCarthy is the Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency at Berkeley Medical Center, WVU School of Medicine. Ryan started the "Healthcare is Human" narrative medicine project during the pandemic, and recorded the TEDx talk, "Healthcare is Human: from Pandemic Pain, Stories of Beauty and Light."Dr. Tom Wright is a family physician, personal and team coach, and well-being advocate. In this episode, Tom shares that "Everything in life is about relationships! Sometimes we miss that because we focus on the professional side, which is incredibly important in healthcare, but how can we bring that humanity back into healthcare?!" "...Recognizing our connectedness, our common humanity, is so powerful, it's transformational!"Speaking to this episode's title, Ryan offers, "There's only so much I can do as one person...we need to give ourselves the same kind of grace and compassion (that we give others)!"We discuss how labeling ourselves can be simultaneously useful, AND create barriers, and the critical importance of fostering creativity.Thanks for being my guests Ryan and Tom, I truly loved our discussion!