Episodes

  • Embodiment with Dr. Tawni Tidwell & Dara Bramson

    Embodiment with Dr. Tawni Tidwell & Dara Bramson
    Jun 3 2022

    “The cultivation of compassion makes a better diagnostician as well as therapeutic practitioner, attuned to the needs of patient.”

    In this episode, we journey into the realm of Tibetan Medicine with Dr. Tawni Tidwell and Dara Bramson. Dr. Tidwell is a trained practitioner of Tibetan Medicine, a biocultural anthropologist, and a researcher at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin. Here we explore how clinicians develop embodied knowledge and skills through observation and practiced attunement of our physical senses. Dr. Tidwell also shares how the generation of compassion is a core aspect of Tibetan Medicine and paramount to the therapeutic encounter.  

    For more, please visit https://www.openheartedmd.com/episodes/embodiment
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    47 mins
  • Healing with Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen & Lota Ofodile

    Healing with Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen & Lota Ofodile
    May 20 2022
    "Many people are healed and never cured, and many people are cured and never healed, and these are different things... healing has to do with purpose and meaning and wholeness, and curing has to do with the physical body..." - Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen. This week, Dr. Rachel Remen and Lota Ofodile examine the place of healing in the practice of medicine. For more, please visit https://www.openheartedmd.com/episodes/healing
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    48 mins
  • Nature with Dr. Stacy Beller Stryer & Amanda d'Almeida

    Nature with Dr. Stacy Beller Stryer & Amanda d'Almeida
    May 6 2022

    "Nature prescriptions aren't just for patients; they're for colleagues, friends, all of us." - Dr. Stacy Beller Stryer. This week, Dr. Beller Stryer and Amanda d'Almeida explore the intersection between the natural world and human health. For more, please visit https://www.openheartedmd.com/episodes/nature
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    48 mins
  • Improvisation & Humor with Dr. Belinda Fu, Dr. John Stevens & Timothy Knowlton

    Improvisation & Humor with Dr. Belinda Fu, Dr. John Stevens & Timothy Knowlton
    Apr 15 2022
    “Improv has really helped me be more me...and to feel comfortable being a human in the room”— Dr. Belinda Fu This week, Dr. Belinda Fu and Dr. John Stevens join medical student Timothy Knowlton to explore how improv and humor build trust with patients. For more, please visit: https://www.openheartedmd.com/episodes/improvisation-humor
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    54 mins
  • Burnout & Resilience with Dr. Jay Kaplan and Rebecca Herbert

    Burnout & Resilience with Dr. Jay Kaplan and Rebecca Herbert
    Mar 25 2022

    "Resilience is being able to recover: when you get bent out of shape, it’s the ability to get back into the shape you need to be, once again..." — Dr Jay Kaplan

    This week, emergency medicine physician Dr. Jay Kaplan speaks with medical student Rebecca Herbert about burnout. They engage with strategies for reducing and preventing burnout, and explore avenues to recovery in times of hardship. 

    For more, please visit:

    https://www.openheartedmd.com/episodes/burnout-resilience
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    55 mins
  • Compassion with Dr. James Doty and Erika Bennett

    Compassion with Dr. James Doty and Erika Bennett
    Mar 11 2022
    “Love is embracing the other, and recognizing that ultimately, the other is you. When you care for the other, you are actually caring for yourself.” — Dr. James Doty 
    Dr. James Doty, New York Times bestselling author of Into the Magic Shop, and medical student Erika Bennett explore the role that compassion plays in a life of meaning and mindfulness. Dr. Doty draws on his childhood, his neurosurgery training, and his deep understanding of the academic literature on compassion to make a compelling case for the importance of centering compassion in our work as healers.

    For more, please visit:

    https://www.openheartedmd.com/episodes/compassion
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    54 mins
  • Death and Dying with Dr. Sonia Malhotra

    Death and Dying with Dr. Sonia Malhotra
    Feb 25 2022

    "Dying is not just this taboo or dirty topic. We can make it so beautiful by doing simple things, by just being there, by having presence." —Dr. Sonia Malhotra

    Dr. Malhotra speaks with medical student Megan Snyder about the experience of death and dying. Their discussion moves from the need to center the lived experience of the individual within medical treatment to a consideration of the collective grief our communities, particularly our African-American communities, are facing due to COVID-19.

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    56 mins
  • Gratitude with Dr. Tanmeet Sethi and Scott Berman

    Gratitude with Dr. Tanmeet Sethi and Scott Berman
    Feb 12 2022

    “Gratitude is a state of being, a good friend, a home to return to [...] Gratitude lets you keep coming back to hard times while seeing the beauty next to the challenge.” —Dr. Tanmeet Sethi

    Dr. Tanmeet Sethi speaks with medical student Scott Berman about how gratitude can be part of a healing practice for both patients and clinicians, and shares tips on how to incorporate gratitude into our everyday lives

     

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    For more, please visit: https://www.openheartedmd.com/episodes/gratitude

     
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    58 mins