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Welcome to our Re-imagine Healthcare mini-series, where we will put our creativity into action to rethink elements of our clinical practice... starting with medical rounds. In this episode, we interview Dr. David Hill, Dr. Mark Loehrke, Dr. Anika Kumar, and Dr. Oliver Hulland about how they round, why they round, and what ways we can make rounding better.  If you'd like to share your ideas ab...

Four years ago, Dr. Kelly Wong was inspired to help patients stuck in the hospital exercise their right to vote. This became PatientVoting. In this episode, learn about how to broach the conversation of voting with your patients and more. Check out PatientVoting.com for details on how to request emergency absentee ballots in your state. VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! The episode was edited by Darli...

We are collecting audio submissions for our special series on "Re-imagining Healthcare"! This is your opportunity think creatively by sharing how you practice medicine and brainstorming new approaches to rounding, medical documentation, and consults. Here are some questions to think about: [Rounds] 1) What is the purpose of rounding? 2) How do you round? 3) How can we improve rounds for the patien...

There is so much creativity within our community and we wanted to dedicate part of our platform to showcase those voices. In this long awaited episode, we hear from talented artists, board game creators, cartoonists, singers, writers and more! We would like to thank the following contributors for sharing their stories: Dr. Akshata Hopkins Dr. Lakshman Swamy (@laxswamy @CritCareGame) Dr. Nitya Raje...

We are collecting audio submissions for our September episode! If you would like a chance to be featured, send a 1-3 minutes audio clip (.mp3) to dwcfilesubmission@gmail.com by Friday, August 14th, 2020. Some questions to answer: Who are you? What is your creative outlet? What are the challenges to being creative in medicine? If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Doctors Who Create...

In this episode, Doctors Who Create founder Dr. Vidya Viswanathan sits down with Dr. Diana Montoya-Williams and Dr. Joanna Parga-Belinkie to discuss the making of their podcast on medicine and motherhood, Baby Doctor Mamas (https://babydoctormamas.com/). The episode was edited by Darlina Liu. At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Shiv Nadkarni. Music for this ep...

Breonna Taylor would be turning 27 today if she hadn't been killed by police in a no-knock raid on March 13. Racism is a public health crisis. We as healthcare providers have a moral imperative to address it. Doctors Who Create stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Here are some ways you can help: Educate yourselves. Learn more about the history of racism in our country. If yo...

In this episode, Dr. David Hindin shares his experience as a Biodesign Innovation Fellow at Stanford and teaches us how to apply the principles of design thinking to solve problems in the time of COVID-19. You can find more from Dr. Hindin on Twitter (@DavidHindin), Instagram (@thesurgeonlife), or his YouTube channel! At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Shiv N...

In this episode, we talk to Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako, an MS-4 at Yale, who writes and speaks about health disparities, social determinants of health, and issues of race and diversity within the medical curriculum. If you like what you hear, be sure to follow Max on Twitter @MaxJordan_N or listen to his podcast, Flip the Script, at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/flip-the-script/id1479201110...

In this episode, we discuss how to create serious games for medical education with Dr. Michael Cosimini. Learn more about his card game, Empiric, which teaches about guideline based antibiotic selection in pediatrics. More information at @EmpiricGame or @ MichaelCosimini on Twitter or at EmpiricGame.com At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Shiv Nadkarni. Music...

This month, Shiv sits down with Dr. Guy Leschziner, a consultant neurologist at Guy's & St. Thomas' Hospitals. A specialist in sleep, Guy has also worked across various media: he's been featured on BBC's Mysteries of Sleep podcast and on channel 4's The Secrets of Sleep, has written a book, and has most recently collaborated with artists on an exhibit at the Science Gallery in London. Listen as he...

Join us in this candid episode about all the creativity that goes behind creating a private practice and about the ways that Dr. Dana Wang thinks about art in her design of Rivia Medical and her practice of psychiatry. More information about Rivia Medical can be found here: https://riviamedical.com/ At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Shiv Nadkarni. Music for...

"The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person." -Czeslaw Milosz Hello from London! This month, we sit down with Dr. Sam Guglani, poet, writer, and oncologist here in the UK. Sam is also the director and founder of Medicine Unboxed, which is a conference for health professionals and the public to use the arts and humanities to explore medicine, life, and death...

In this episode, we spoke with Dr. Mini Tandon, a child psychiatrist who wrote a children's picture book series about the adventures of Dr. Mini Mental Health and the young Willie Wannaknow. Wanna know more? Read about her book series here: http://www.drminimentalhealth.com At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Shiv Nadkarni. Music for this episode is credited t...

At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu (@darlinaliu) and Shiv Nadkarni (@_shivn). But who are they really?! In this special episode, we're taking you behind the scenes to meet the producers, hear about their own creative passions, and get a heads up about their plans for this podcast. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet...

As people from all walks of life enter the medical field, how do they grapple with having their lives taken over by the arduous but rewarding monster that is medicine? How do they build upon their previous identities without erasing them? Listen as we discuss these questions and more with musician-ENT Tiffany Peng-Hwa, who entered the field as a trumpeter and teacher, and now uses her identity as...

This week, we hear from a doc who is and has been doing some really interesting research in neurotheology, a field that studies the neuroscience of religious and spiritual beliefs. This director of integrative health at Jefferson University Hospital will tell us how he came to these interests, what they mean for his life and medical practice, and what they mean for humanity. Let’s sit down with Dr...

In the last episode of this month’s Spotlight Series, we don’t dance around the subject… we’re talking about how knowledge about movement can influence our practice of medicine. In this episode, we interviewed Nina Shevzov-Zebrun and Dr. Elizabeth Barchi about their plan to teach others about movement and medicine and we interviewed Marleigh Stern who created a documentary about creatives in medic...

Since starting medical school, I’ve begun seeing biology and medicine in art everywhere I look: at the MoMa, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, even the random art galleries in Chelsea… I see folded proteins and cells and viruses. In Episode 3 of our Spotlight Series, we are going to talk about how art and medicine go hand in hand. From the work of Dr. Mike Natter to making murals in a hospital waiting...

Welcome to Episode 2 of our Spotlight Series, where we will be discussing the many ways that doctors and doctors-in-training can hone their writing skills, outside of clinical notes. In Part One, Dr. Colleen Farrell speaks candidly about her journey through writing and medicine, including her experience with writing about mental health, the confidence gap she witnessed in clinical medicine which i...

Welcome to Episode 2 of our Spotlight Series, where we will be discussing the many ways that doctors and doctors-in-training can hone their writing skills, outside of clinical notes. In Part One, we share some six word stories from fourth year medical students, a project coordinated by Max Wang and others from the NYU Gold Humanism Society. Eli Cahan, an editor of Agora, NYU Medicine’s arts and li...

We're kicking off our Spotlight Series on the NYU School of Medicine with a spotlight on improv and medicine! In this episode, we interviewed Nick Kanellis who taught a "Medical Improv" seminar and his students who shared about their experiences. Listen to learn more about improv games you can play to improv-e your skills with patients. Thanks to Darlina Liu for producing this episode, to our podc...

At the inaugural Creativity in Medicine Conference held in Philadelphia on April 20, 2019, we hosted a live podcast taping of the #MedHumChat. Listen to the discussion between Dr. Colleen Farrell, Dr. Margot Hedlin, Grace Oliver, and the med twitterverse as they discuss Rafael Campo's poem "Why Doctors Write" and the role of social media in medicine. Thanks to Dr. Colleen Farrell, Dr. Margot Hedli...

Presenting the first episode of a collaboration between Doctors Who Create and Equal Treatment, a medical educational platform that brings awareness to health care issues involving race, immigration, and underserved populations. In this episode, we interview Dr. Oanh Nguyen at UCSF about the implications of adverse health outcomes and costs in undocumented immigrant population with end-stage renal...

In this DWC podcast, we hear from psychopharmacologist, psychiatrist, musician, and drug legalization advocate Dr. Julie Holland. She takes us through the whirlwind that is writing her fourth book, talks about her experience being a physician in the media, and tells us the whole truth about cannabis and other drugs. Thanks to Shiv Nadkarni for conducting and producing this interview, our podcast l...