58 Episodes

  1. The New Medical School Graduation Competencies and Why One of the Them Stands Out

    Published: 1/21/2025

  2. A Conversation with Pediatric Surgeon John Lawrence MD, Past Board President of Doctors Without Borders, USA

    Published: 12/17/2024

  3. Addressing Social Drivers of Health: What is the role of the clinician?

    Published: 11/19/2024

  4. “Simonisms”: Revisiting the uncommon wisdom of a physician and educator who shaped us deeply

    Published: 10/15/2024

  5. Do the doctors who sold Matthew Perry ketamine indicate something rotten in mainstream medicine?

    Published: 9/17/2024

  6. Some Pitfalls of Narrative Medicine and How to Avoid Them

    Published: 8/20/2024

  7. The chasm between how doctors are taught to communicate and what they actually sound like

    Published: 7/23/2024

  8. What do we lose and what do we gain by calling addiction a disease?

    Published: 6/18/2024

  9. Can we learn and practice medicine well in a system that is so ill?

    Published: 5/21/2024

  10. “Tough Love” is Not the Answer: A critique of NEJM reporting on student/trainee grievances and educator discontent

    Published: 4/16/2024

  11. What a James Baldwin story can teach doctors and patients about care amidst suffering

    Published: 3/19/2024

  12. How confronting racist ideas I didn’t realize I had is shaping me as a physician and a person

    Published: 2/20/2024

  13. About me being racist: A conversation that follows an apology

    Published: 1/16/2024

  14. How effects of racism were mistaken for “race” in clinical algorithms: What clinicians should know

    Published: 12/19/2023

  15. Drug testing at time of birth: How physicians are co-opted into harming families while thinking they are doing the right thing

    Published: 11/21/2023

  16. Directly and Covertly Observing Care: How it Can Transform Medical Education and Improve Clinical Practice

    Published: 10/18/2023

  17. "Dire Consequences": When students do not receive appropriate accommodations on the USMLE examinations

    Published: 9/19/2023

  18. Why it's time to remove time limits on tests, like the USMLE exams

    Published: 8/22/2023

  19. Running the Gauntlet: My Journey into Medicine with a Learning Disability

    Published: 7/25/2023

  20. Why are doctors turning to ChatGPT for help relating to patients?

    Published: 6/27/2023

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Doctors and other health care professionals are too often socialized and pressured to become “efficient task completers” rather than healers, which leads to unengaged and unimaginative medical practice, burnout, and diminished quality of care. It doesn’t have to be that way. With a range of thoughtful guests, co-hosts Saul Weiner MD and Stefan Kertesz MD MS, interrogate the culture and context in which clinicians are trained and practice for their implications for patient care and clinician well-being. The podcast builds on Dr. Weiner’s 2020 book, On Becoming a Healer: The Journey from Patient Care to Caring about Your Patients (Johns Hopkins University Press).