Alice Chen On Phonebanking & The 2020 Election

"We are affirming to a complete stranger that their voice matters"

Dr. Alice Chen is an Internal Medicine physician, the former executive director of Doctors For America, and one of the leaders of Doctors For Biden. She joins us in the stretch run of the 2020 election to discuss the shift in mindset among American doctors around politics. We also discuss the critical impact and sense of satisfaction to be had with phonebanking to help drive change.

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Key Learnings

1. How Dr. Chen became politically engaged as a physician

2. Signing a letter

3. Differences between physician engagement with politics between 2008 and 2020

4. What is phonebanking?

5. The impact a doctor can have when they share their profession when making calls

6. Orienting and getting started

7. The current state of voter activation and the rise of medical students and early career physicians in this work

Links

@DoctorsForBiden on Twitter and IG

Phonebanking with Doctors For Biden

Transcript

Mark Shapiro (00:01):

Welcome back to Explore The Space Podcast. I'm your host Mark Shapiro. Before we get to today's episode, a thank you to Laurie Baedke and Creighton University for sponsoring this episode, Creighton University believes in equipping physicians for success in the exam room, the operating room and the boardroom. If you want to increase your business acumen, deepen your leadership knowledge and earn your seat at the table. Creighton's healthcare executive education is for you. Specifically tailored to busy physicians our hybrid programs blend the richness of on-campus residencies with the flexibility of online learning. Earn a Creighton university executive MBA degree in 18 months, or complete the non-degree executive fellowship in six months, visit www.creighton.edu/CHEE to learn more. My guest in this episode is Dr. Alice Chen. Dr. Chen is an internal medicine physician.

Mark Shapiro (00:53):

She is former executive director of Doctors for America, and she is now one of the leaders of Doctors for Biden. She joins us in the stretch run of the 2020 election to discuss a really important shift that's occurring in the mindset of American medical students, doctors, healthcare professionals, all around the country, around this idea of engaging in the political process. And we also discussed the critical impact and the sense of satisfaction to be had with a whole variety of tangible things that you can do to drive towards change the biggest one at this point in the election being phone banking, which is a really interesting topic. It's a really interesting subject, and she really helps step through some of the barriers that people can come up with to not participate in phone banking, as well as all the great reasons to jump in. If you have some free time leading up to the presidential election, definitely take the opportunity to check out the events page on the Doctors for Biden website.

Mark Shapiro (01:47):

There are phone banking opportunities every single day. So definitely take advantage of that before we get to our conversation. We'll want to just invite everyone to please subscribe to and rate and review, explore the space podcast on Apple podcasts or whe...