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On Becoming a Healer — 79 episodes
Moral Injury, Moral Courage, and the Business of Medicine
From East Pakistan to West Texas: What One Immigrant Doctor Gave America
The Clinician in the Difficult Encounter
Contextualizing Care: From Competency to Curriculum (BONUS Episode)
Do Mental Illness Diagnoses Obscure More Than They Reveal?
"Dire Consequences": When students do not receive appropriate accommodations on the USMLE examinations
Why it's time to remove time limits on tests, like the USMLE exam
Why Good Primary Care Is Non-Negotiable
Preventing Suicide: How can we do better?
Bad Leadership in Academic Medicine and Health Care: Let's Talk about It
Poems about the wretched illness experience when your doctor is"clinically detached"
Assisted Dying: An End-of-Life Care Option or a Line Physicians Should Never Cross?
Why are we addicted to talking about opioids rather than helping people with chronic pain?
Despite It All: stories from women who found joy in medicine despite joining a less than welcoming profession
The biopsychosocial model: What would it take to really replace the biomedical model?
"Disability is part of the human experience": So why not treat it that way?
The Extraordinary Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot
Emboldened Bullies Come for Medical Education
Physicians and Authoritarians: Are We Too Obedient?
Caring for Patients or Policing Them? Prescription Drug Monitoring, Doctors and Opioids
What can we learn from all those "Why I quit medicine" videos on YouTube?
The New Medical School Graduation Competencies and Why One of the Them Stands Out
A Conversation with Pediatric Surgeon John Lawrence MD, Past Board President of Doctors Without Borders, USA
Addressing Social Drivers of Health: What is the role of the clinician?
"Simonisms": Revisiting the uncommon wisdom of a physician and educator who shaped us deeply
Do the doctors who sold Matthew Perry ketamine indicate something rotten in mainstream medicine?
Some Pitfalls of Narrative Medicine and How to Avoid Them
The chasm between how doctors are taught to communicate and what they actually sound like
What do we lose and what do we gain by calling addiction a disease?
Can we learn and practice medicine well in a system that is so ill?
"Tough Love" is Not the Answer: A critique of NEJM reporting on student/trainee grievances and educator discontent
What a James Baldwin story can teach doctors and patients about care amidst suffering
How confronting racist ideas I didn't realize I had is shaping me as a physician and a person
About me being racist: A conversation that follows an apology
How effects of racism were mistaken for "race" in clinical algorithms: What clinicians should know
Drug testing at time of birth: How physicians are co-opted into harming families while thinking they are doing the right thing
Directly and Covertly Observing Care: How it Can Transform Medical Education and Improve Clinical Practice
"Dire Consequences": When students do not receive appropriate accommodations on the USMLE examinations
Why it's time to remove time limits on tests, like the USMLE exams
Running the Gauntlet: My Journey into Medicine with a Learning Disability
Why are doctors turning to ChatGPT for help relating to patients?
Prescription Opioid Reductions and Suicide: What Should Caring Physicians Do in the Face of Uncertainty?
My patient's in shackles: Can we take these off?
From medical student mistreatment to burnout: How can we change the culture?
Medical Student Mistreatment: A Wicked Problem
Uncommon wisdom from a family physician and medical educator
Challenging Questions to Help Physicians Reflect, Grow, and Find More Joy Practicing Medicine
Organic Chemistry and the Questionable Ways We Select and Train Physicians
Contextualizing Care in a Nutshell (and a New Study)
Medical Gaslighting: Why Are We A--holes?
Urine Drug Screening: How it can traumatize patients and undermine the physician-patient relationship without helping anyone
Pursuing a Medical Career While Black: What it Takes and Why it Matters
Rescuing medical professionalism: Could "cup-of-coffee conversations" do more good than committees and letters-to-the-file?
Why Residents Unionize
Opioids and the physician-patient relationship: What are we getting wrong?
False Positives Traumatize Patients...If Clinicians Aren't Careful
Healing Interactions: What are they made of?
Kind People on Airplanes
When an attending yells at a resident
When your patient has a Swastika tattoo
About me being racist: A conversation that follows an apology
The Dartmouth Debacle: Why the culture of medical education needs to change
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Engagement and Boundary Clarity:
Judgementalism
Contextualizing Care: What it means and why it matters
Part 2: International Medicine
Part 1. International Medicine
My Learning Disability
Asking patients "Why?"
Part 2: "This is what I trained for."
Part 1: Meaning and Joy in Solo Practice
Part 2: Hope and Healing for Those Who Follow
Part 1: Pursuing a Dream and a Calling
Forced Opioid Taper
Airplane Guy
Patient Abuse
The "Difficult" Patient
Introducing: On Becoming a Healer