The Silent Room
As medical professionals, our patients are putting their trust in us at their most vulnerable moments. It is our responsibility to handle that trust with respect, understand what they need from us bot...
10 Apr 20235min
An Audio Abstract of "Rejecting Reforms, Yet Calling for Change: A Qualitative Analysis of Proposed Reforms to the Residency Application Process"
Author Michael Gisondi, MD, provides an overview of this recently published qualitative study in which he and his coauthors examined key stakeholders' opinions about several proposed reforms to the re...
3 Apr 20235min
Connections
Since 2020, learning to treat patients with COVID-19 reminds me that we remain humble learners of medicine. All our resources have been stretched—rooms, staff, equipment, compassion—and yet our patien...
20 Mar 20234min
Moments that Matter
As medical professionals, it is tempting to cultivate a razor-sharp focus on symptoms and diagnoses. Robby helped me realize our former approach was like a racehorse with blinders: fast, but risking m...
13 Mar 20235min
Prayer and Care: Faith as a Form of Culturally Competent Care
Faith is relevant to the clinical interaction when it gives patients and clinicians a shared ground upon which to stand in the midst of chaos, and my experience … showed me that spirituality can effec...
6 Mar 20234min
Prayers and Tuna Melts
When we form enriched relationships, we allow ourselves to feel grief for the patients we lose, and likewise, joy for the patients who leave healthier than when they arrived. Zarin I. Rahman reflects ...
27 Feb 20234min
What's On Your Plate? Culinary Medicine as an Innovative Nutrition Education Model
Guests Courtney Newman and Jaclyn Albin, MD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss culinary medicine and its role in teaching nutrition, nutrition counseling, and hands-on cooking skills to medical students...
20 Feb 202340min
Genetics Lessons From Rare Patients
Every now and then, a patient will bring me new insights and knowledge, such as lessons on rare diseases that I would not have learned if I had not seen them in person. These rare patients … instilled...
13 Feb 20235min
