The SurgeonMasters Podcast

The SurgeonMasters Podcast

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The SurgeonMasters Podcast episodes

  • Healthy Empathy for Surgeons

    Karla McLaren is an award-winning author, and social science researcher.

    Her lifelong work focuses on her grand unified theory of emotions, which revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens startling new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy empathy.

    She is the founder and CEO of Emotion Dynamics, LLC. Karla is also the author of The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life’s Most Essential Skill (2013), The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings are Trying to Tell You (2010), and the multimedia online course Emotional Flow: Becoming Fluent in the Language of Emotions (2012).

    Personally, I believe most surgeons would learn a great deal from the expertise of author Karla McLaren, a pioneer in the study, use, and meaning of empathy.

    On today’s SurgeonMasters Podcast, she joins us to discuss:

    • Understanding whatever emotions people are feeling, and responding appropriately.

    • The meaning of reciprocal empathy and how to practice it.

    • The difference between empathy and enmeshment.

    • Regulating comfortable emotions versus problematic emotions.

    • Maintaining your own emotional tone and intellectual reality, and not trying to control or manipulate another person.

    • How practicing unhealthy empathy and lack of self-care can lead to burnout.

    • The difference between empathy, compassion, and sympathy, and what is healthy empathy.

    • ...And much more.

     

     

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  • Healthy Empathy for Surgeons
    Karla McLaren is an award-winning author, and social science researcher. Her lifelong work focuses on her grand unified theory of emotions, which revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens startling new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy empathy. She is the founder and CEO of Emotion Dynamics, LLC. Karla is also the author […]
    47 min
  • Using Comics to Reflect on the Complexities of Being a Surgeon
    Today, I welcome Mary Kay Czerwiec—Artist-in-Residence at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine—onto The SurgeonMasters Podcast. After graduating from Loyola University of Chicago with a BA in English, MK went on to receive a BSN in Nursing from Rush University, and an MA from Northwestern in Medical Humanities and Bioethics. In addition to her clinical nursing […]
    40 min
  • Learning Empathy from Monsters and Muppets
    Today, I welcome Dr. Philip Stahel—orthopaedic trauma surgeon at Denver Health, the regional safety-net hospital and Level 1 trauma center in Colorado. Dr. Stahel is a dual US-Swiss citizen who grew up in Milan, Italy, and trained at Medical School of the University of Zurich, Switzerland before completing his postgraduate training at the University of […]
    47 min
  • Surgeons Lead by Example
    Today, I welcome Dr. Dana Covey—Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery with expertise in sports medicine at UC San Diego—onto the SurgeonMasters Podcast. After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy, Dr. Covey served with distinction as a Navy orthopedic surgeon, making multiple combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan as a leader of Marine Corps far-forward surgical […]
    39 min
  • How God/Spirituality Created Peace in My Surgical Practice
    Today, I’m happy to share the microphone with Greg Campbell, M.D., a private practice surgeon in North County San Diego, where he works strictly with trauma and acute care surgery. Dr. Campbell is an accomplished U.S. Navy veteran, happy husband to a wonderful wife, and proud father of four children. Dr. Campbell credits his ability […]
    52 min
  • Success: Creating 10 Axioms to Serving Leadership
    I’m thrilled to be joined by Orthopaedic Surgeon and Colonel (retired US army) James Ficke, M.D., Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and director of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. He is also orthopedist-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. After more than 30-years of military service, he is highly respected […]
    31 min
  • My Experience and Perspective on Avoiding Burnout
    Today’s guest is Erick Santos, MD, an Orthopedic Surgeon who practices in South Texas. He was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for undergrad in Biomedical Engineering and then went onto a Master’s degree, Ph.D. and MD at the University of Pennsylvania. He served in the US […]
    53 min

About The SurgeonMasters Podcast

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The SurgeonMasters Podcast is for surgeons who wish to create a highly successful and sustainable practice that is lifestyle-friendly with less stress and frustration. Each episode focuses on…