Dr. Al'ai Alvarez is a clinical assistant professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) and the Director of Well-Being at Stanford Emergency Medicine. He also serves as the Co-Lead of the Human Potential Team and serves as the Director of Emergency Medicine Wellness Fellowship.

His work focuses on humanizing physician roles as individuals and teams through the harnessing of our individual human potential in the context of high-performance teams. This includes optimizing the interdependence between Process Improvement, Diverse Recruitment, and Well-being.

In the podcast Dr Alvarez explains how he went from causing burn out among his colleagues to teaching them self-compassion and well-being practices. That the key to taking care of others is by taking care of yourself. and why shame and humiliation are no longer the way to manage medical errors.

We discuss the emotional toll the pandemic has had on health care workers, and why significant numbers of nurses feel betrayed.    

Dr Alvarez describes how to lead with vulnerability, why save of the month is a big hit among his residents and how fried chicken and cheese is used to create community with the emergency medicine department at Stanford.

The sound quality of the recording is slightly below par, but please bear with it as this is a great listen. 

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