This week's topics include:

• teaching as a way of connecting with patients,

• trusting the intelligence of your patients (and yourself),

• finding the common ground necessary for patient conversations, and

• learning communication in both the classroom and the exam room.

Guest Messenger
Dr. Cedric "Jamie" Rutland, pulmonary critical care physician and producer/creator of Medicine Deconstructed and The Health Exchange Podcast.

Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:29 Jamie’s Origin Story
5:39 The Lack of Connection to What Patients Understood
6:36 I Would Enter the Room and Start Teaching
8:01 You Oughta Start a YouTube Channel
10:45 Teaching Physicians How to Communicate
12:20 The Problem With COVID
13:43 The Geometry of Immunology
14:56 I’m Just Teaching Infection
17:07 The Struggle to Connect
18:27 Trusting the Intelligence of the People to Whom We’re Speaking
20:26 The Ground Where Discussion Can Take Place
23:49 You’re Smart Enough to Explain This
26:52 Patients Don’t Have to Take Board Exams
28:30 Memorizing Minutiae vs. Learning Communication
30:17 Small Problem: The Family Was Racist
32:22 You Need to Learn How to Storytell
35:33 The Problem is the Role-Modeling
36:42 Where Med Schools are Failing Miserably
38:40 I Can Make Anyone a Good, Solid Communicator
41:17 Go in There and Tell Her She Has Cancer
44:01 A Story About Speakers’ Training
48:28 Give Me More Todd
49:50 The Importance of Being Open-Eared
53:19 Educator Shout-Out: Dr. Mohammed Milhem
54:11 Eagles-49ers Predictions

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