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Health care leaders are spending more time and money trying to improve the way doctors and nurses talk with their patients, to build more trust. Are those efforts working? We eavesdrop on some difficult conversations between patients and providers, and meet researchers who are measuring the power of using just the right words. 

This episode first aired in 2019 and remains as relevant as ever.

Guests: Andrea Anderson, MD, Medical Director,  Unity Health Care Sumeera Baig, MD, Physician, R-Health Calvin Chou, MD, Professor, University of California, San Francisco Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Equity in Health and Healthcare, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Hannah Herman, DO, Resident, The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education Lauren Howe, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University Natalie Levinson, patient Jeff Milstein, MD, Regional Medical Director, Penn Primary Care Kathy Trow, MSN, APN-C, Nurse Practitioner, Penn Medicine  Jessika Welcome, mother of patient Natalie Levinson

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