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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