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Hear Me Now
by Providence
A place for deeply meaningful conversations that matter. Providence and the Institute for Human Caring are dedicated to caring for the whole person. A key element of this includes listening to patients, their loved ones, our caregivers and communities. This podcast helps fulfill the unmet needs of patients, their loved ones, caregivers, and communities by offering a place for in-depth conversations that matter.
Episodes
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A woman's heart
Understanding heart disease in women. For years, heart disease was thought of as "a man's disease." But the truth is quite different and quite sobering: one-in-three women in America dies of heart disease. Symptoms go unnoticed, warning signs are often ignored, and delays in seeking care make…
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Clearing the fog
On today's program we explore life post-COVID with Dr. Jim Jackson, author of "Clearing the fog: From surviving to thriving with Long COVID — A practical guide" (Little Brown Spark, 2023).
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Nurses Unmasked: Reflections from the frontlines
On today's program, we are listening to nurses as they reflect on their experiences on the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic. These are stories of uncertainty and fear, of anger and resilience, dedication, recovery, and camaraderie. But most of all these are stories about caregiving. The...
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Sickle Cell Disease
Host Seán Collins talks with Dr. Titilope Fasipe, co-director of the Sickle Cell and Thalasemis Program at Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Center in Houston about advances in both the treatment of sickle cell disease and progress towards a cure.
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Aging in Place: The Challenge of Staying Home
Exploring the barriers to long-term care at home. We spoke with Drs. Lisa Iezzoni and Maureen Nash about the mental, emotional, physical, and financial challenges for people with disabilities or age-related issues who want to remain at home.
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Caring for Caregivers
Coaching to quench the fires of burnout. We talked to front-line healthcare professionals about their experiences with a pilot program that connects certified coach-physicians with medical staff who are feeling some degree of burnout. For more stories, information or resources, visit: Hear Me Now
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New Models of Care in Nursing
One of the unforeseen consequences of the COVID pandemic has been increasing popular awareness of a nursing shortage that was already well in place. COVID just made it worse. Nurse turnover has cost healthcare organizations enormously — both in terms of dollars, but also in lost expertise and...
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Ukraine + War Trauma
The latest iteration of Russia's war on Ukraine has entered its second year prompting us to examine the issue of war trauma — especially the toll war takes on civilians. Russia's indiscriminate targeting of civilian housing, schools, hospitals, and infrastructure has not only made civilians...
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Doctors + Disabilities
Do physicians engage in discrimination? On today's program, a conversation with Harvard's Lisa Iezzoni, M.D. — a researcher at the Health Policy Research Center at Mass. General Hospital. She has been studying healthcare for people with disability for a generation now and finds the attitudes of…
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Mindfulness: Meditation's Effect in Daily Life
There's growing evidence that the routine practice of meditation improves quality of life (including relief from anxiety, increased focus, and the mitigation of negative emotions) and that these benefits can be seen after as few as five sessions of meditation. But we didn't really need scientific...
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Deaf Health Equity: Barriers to the Best Possible Care
If you take only one fact away from this podcast today, it should be this: more than 30 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, healthcare providers in the United States remain ill-equipped to meet the needs of deaf, deaf-blind, and hard of hearing people who come to them...
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Surgery: Saying So Long to the Old Boy's Club
A woman's place is in the operating room. Women outnumber men in American medical schools, but in the operating room it's still an "Old Boys' Club". Surgery remains a bastion of male privilege, prerogative, and power in American healthcare. But that is changing. On today's program, Sean talks…
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Autism
Today we speak with Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, a NYT bestseller, about the history of autism and its future. For more information and resources, visit: instituteforhumancaring.org To learn more about author Steve Silberman…
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The Kids Aren't Alright-Young People and Mental Health
A mental-health dialogue between youth advocates. On today’s program, two youth advocates for mental health – Billie Henderson and Kaiya Bates – discuss what they’ve experienced and how they’ve worked to make things better for other young people. For more information and resources:...
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Family Medicine Building Bridges
International partnership focuses on patient care in psycho-social context. Family Medicine residents from Seattle do some of their training at the Mangochi District Hospital in Malawi and some of the Family Medicine registrars from Malawi's Kamuzu University of Health Sciences travel to Seattle...
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Caring for Addicts
We talk with Dr. Honora Englander and Corey Davis about improving the standards of care for people with substance use disorders. Last year in the U.S., more than 100,000 people died of drug overdoses. It’s a staggering statistic that was unthinkable just a few years ago.
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Being Well
Life lessons from real life. Taking a look back over the first two years of the Hear Me Now podcast and the lessons we've learned about being well.
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Understanding Long Covid
Conversations with researchers and people living with Long COVID. On today's program, we talk with researchers studying the illnesses that people who have had COVID now are living with, including persistent fatigue, brain fog and other neurological problems, and vascular conditions. We also talk...
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Bullets Wound
Bullets do more damage than tearing through tissue. Recovery takes more than surgery and stitches. Bullet wounds go more than skin deep. LJ Punch, M.D., is a trauma surgeon and the founder of the BRIC, the Bullet-Related Injury Clinic in Saint Louis, Mo. BRIC is where shooting victims come for...
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Hearing Voices
Mental illness or a gift? We talk to Caroline Mazel-Carlton, who gave up antipsychotic meds to live with her voices. She’s among those transforming understanding of voice-hearers & their experiences.
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Monkeypox
Monkeypox! What we know. What we need to know. For more information and resources, visit: https://www.instituteforhumancaring.org/
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Overdoses + Racial Disparities
Despite substantial efforts, racial and ethnic disparities widen in treatment of substance use disorders.
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The Standard of Care for Pediatric Patients
A discussion of the accepted standard of care when assessing and treating pediatric patients whose gender expression is different from what was assigned at birth. In addition to clinicians and public health experts, we hear from parents of trans+ kids, others who love them, and trans+ kids...
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Starting Med School Later in Life
Does Other Work Experience Make A Difference? A small number of first year medical students each year are significantly older than the norm. They've come to medicine as a second or sometimes third career. Do those other work experiences make a difference in how they make their way through their...
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Psychedelics
In this episode of Hear Me Now, we discuss the therapeutic use of psychedelics.
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Tele-Palliative Care
Making palliative care available everywhere it's needed.
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Medical Futurist
Bertalan Meskó, M.D., Ph.D., joins us from Budapest. The days of medical robots, scanners, and bots are upon us — but do not fear! — these tools of digital health may be exactly what the doctor ordered to regain the personalism that's at the heart of caring.
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Life During Wartime
Ukraine's fight unites a global humanitarian response. In this episode, using a lens of whole person care, we talk with people reaching out to others in wartime, making connections, and countering the darkness with (in the words of W.H. Auden) "ironic points of light."
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Family Caregiving
For millions of Americans, taking care of a loved one is a way of life. This "unofficial" family caregiving is hard work that often falls to an elderly spouse, or to adult children, or to an ad hoc network of friends & family.
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Medical Cannabis
The medical use of marijuana poses interesting issues, including its legal status: It's illegal at the Federal level and its legal in close to 40 of the States. We'll weed through the confusion in a conversation on Medical Cannabis. For more information on the advanced care planning or the...
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Advanced Care Planning
Does advance care planning work? There's controversy swirling around the question, and we try to shed some light on it with two leading physicians with different views. For more information on the advanced care planning or the Institute of Human Caring of Providence, visit:...
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The Future of Nursing
Two-plus years into a global pandemic, U.S. nursing is in a state of 911. Three nurse leaders unpack the economic, social and psychological impacts of demoralized nurses leaving the field en masse. For more information about the Providence Institute for Human Caring, visit here:...
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COVID 2022: Looking Ahead
Entering the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we talk with three people about their view of COVID: a physician leading clinical care for a large healthcare system, a reporter in Washington, D.C., covering national health policy, and a frontline doc in a hospital in Los Angeles County. For…
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Substance Use Disorder
An episode we planned to be about addiction and holiday stress turned into an episode about connection, community, and compassion. Listen for great strategies for us all as 2022 dawns. For more information about the Providence Institute for Human Caring visit here:...
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Narrative Medicine
Twenty years ago, Dr. Rita Charon coined the phrase "narrative medicine." We talk with her and her former student, Dr. Kathy Kirkland, about their careers listening closely to the stories patients tell.
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Conference Highlights
We present highlights from the 2021 conference that explored ways to prioritize the personal in healthcare while at the same time to better engage communities, improve health equity, boost patient outcomes, and save costs.
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Poverty + Health
Today we discuss how poverty negatively impacts a person's health and wellbeing and how to mitigate this pervasive social determinant of health.
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Every Deep Drawn Breath-A Conversation with Wes Ely, MD
We discuss efforts to improve outcomes for patients in Intensive Care Units with Wes Ely, M.D., a longtime proponent of reducing ICU delirium. Once expected and accepted, ICU delirium is now seen as the best predictor of longer stays, greater costs, eventual dementias, and in-patient deaths of...
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Trauma-Informed Care
With tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees coming to the United States, we discuss how healthcare providers can be mindful of traumas their patients have experienced in order to help them come to the fullness of health.
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Nursing Triptych
In this episode, we offer three snapshots of nursing with practitioners who spend more time in the community than they do in the clinic and how that interchange can enrich a nurse's job.
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#MedTwitter
Some healthcare professionals are using social media to advocate for health equity and to build community. We hear from four who believe that meeting their patients where they are makes sense.
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Anger and the Delta Wave
The Delta variant of Covid-19 is sickening un-vaccinated people – including record numbers of young people – filling ICUs, taxing caregivers, and stoking economic uncertainty. Today we explore the anger many feel with the anti-vax, anti-mask advocates through the lens of two clinicians, a New…
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The Dental + Medical Divide
Ever wondered why your medical health insurance doesn't cover dental? Today we explore the confusing and convoluted relationship between dentistry and medicine as we hear why now might be the perfect time for a change.
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Poetry + Medicine
We explore the poetics of medicine and the medicine in poetry with poet-physician Patrick Clary, M.D.; Redwing Keyssar, RN; and Ira Byock, M.D. "Poetry holds a mirror up to us. It helps us understand what has just happened," says Clary.
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Pregnancy Loss
As many as a quarter of known pregnancies end in miscarriage. But that doesn't make it easy to talk about. On today's program, we explore early pregnancy loss, the way individuals often cope with the trauma alone, silently, and how the loss can persist for years -- sometimes, even a lifetime.
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The Year of the Nurse
In this episode of Hear Me Now, we speak with Syl Trepanier, Chief Nursing Officer for Providence, about what the pandemic has taught us about the profession of nursing and what we still have to learn. It's become very clear, especially during the pandemic, how important it is to bring science to...
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Palliative Care
In this episode of Hear Me Now, a conversation with Dr. Diane Meier, professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine at Mt. Sinaia School of Medicine, about increasing access to quality palliative care programs and the state of palliative care today.
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Medical Technology
In today's medical community, technology is a key element, but how do we keep medicine human? In this episode of Hear Me Now, we'll be discussing the intersection between technology and medicine.
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The Spiritual Care of the Whole Person
In this episode, we discuss the place of spiritual well-being in healthcare. As patients face anxiety about the unknown and a loss of control as they experience anger, frustration and isolation the spiritual care of the whole person becomes more important. Our guests have missions of…
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Medical Records + Literacy
Just what is in your medical records? In this episode we cover a new federal regulation that is about to take affect that will allow patients to view their electronic medical records. It's part of a movement for transparency in medicine. We'll discuss access to information and understanding what...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A place for deeply meaningful conversations that matter. Providence and the Institute for Human Caring are dedicated to caring for the whole person. A key element of this includes listening to patients, their loved ones, our caregivers and communities. This podcast helps fulfill the unmet needs of patients, their loved ones, caregivers, and communities by offering a place for in-depth conversations that matter.
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