Chair of Radiology and Radiologist-In-Chief, and Interventional Radiology

In this episode, Hank and Michael speak with Dr. Joseph D'Orazio. Board certified in Emergency Medicine, Medical Toxicology, and Addiction Medicine - he is an expert on the current Opioid Epidemic. We discuss why he thinks the opioid crisis is so prevalent today, possible ways to combat it – and the right ways for physicians to prescribe opioids in the first place. We also talk about the language and proper terminology surrounding substance use disorder. Finally, we discuss what we can a...

In this episode, Hank and Michael sit down with Sister Jocelyn Edathil who is also a Hospitalist at Temple University Hospital. She is both a physician and a Catholic Nun. Not only was she born at Temple University Hospital, she now walks the hospital halls in her habit. We discuss how being a Nun helps her connect with her patients, but also some of the challenges it brings while caring for her patients. We talk about her vow of poverty and the way her spirituality counters physician b...

Welcome to the Narratives of North Broad Podcast! This brief introduction will give listeners a chance to meet co-hosts Hank Davis and Michael Vitez, and it will give a glimpse of what listeners can expect from episodes to come. Hank Davis is a first year medical student at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia. Michael Vitez is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who is now the Director of the Narrative Medicine program at the Lewis Katz School of Medici...

In this inaugural episode, Hank and Michael talk with Dr. Naomi Rosenberg. She is an emergency medicine physician at Temple University Hospital and assistant director of the Narrative Medicine program here at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine. We discuss her journey into medicine and why she chose emergency medicine. We also talk about an inevitable aspect of being a doctor -- delivering bad news. And we dive into a discussion of her amazing essay that for days was the best read story on the ...