The Joy of Medicine

Dr. Cashion and Trey Cashion discuss the role of confidence and humility in medicine and emphasize the importance of avoiding the pitfall of pride by recognizing that our own expertise (or greatness) is a gift from God.   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live radio, listen to all of our podcasts, and find additional information and resources related to our Catholic...

Dr. Cashion and Trey Cashion discuss treating patients as an integrated whole, body and spirit, and they talk about the importance of being a missionary disciple in your occupation.   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live radio, listen to all of our podcasts, and find additional information and resources related to our Catholic faith. And if you want to support The...

55 year heart surgeon, Dr. Cashion, tells his son, Trey Cashion, about being a young doctor when 12 inches of rain flooded the basement of the Texas Medical Center in Houston in 1976 , shutting off the power and backup generator. Listen to how he and other doctors rushed (and canoed) to the aid of those in need!   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live radio, listen...

Dr. Cashion talks about diagnosing an imminently life-threatening heart problem in the son of the doctor who gave him his big break.   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live radio, listen to all of our podcasts, and find additional information and resources related to our Catholic faith. And if you want to support The RED-C Apostolate and all that we do, please cons...

Dr. Cashion entertains us with several stories about fainting, explains what causes it, and he and his son, Trey, discuss the importance of staying calm in tense situations and ways to do it (hint: Jesus, I trust in You).   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live radio, listen to all of our podcasts, and find additional information and resources related to our Cathol...

Where is God's presence in moments of crisis and catastrophe? Dr. Cashion recalls an intense experience when, as a young, moonlighting doctor, he tended to over ten severely injured people at once, and how he made a very rare and deadly diagnosis in the midst of the chaos.   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live radio, listen to all of our podcasts, and find additi...

Dr. Richard Cashion and Trey Cashion look at a charter for healthcare workers put out by the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance, and discuss the importance of remembering that God has put you exactly where you are, and how that idea can transform your life and occupation.   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live radio, listen to all of our podcasts, and find...

Dr. Richard Cashion tells how his own experience with atrial fibrillation and the anxiety it causes has been largely alleviated by his trust in Jesus Christ and His Divine Mercy.   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live radio, listen to all of our podcasts, and find additional information and resources related to our Catholic faith. And if you want to support The RE...

Esteemed cardiologist, Dr. Richard Cashion, and his son, Trey Cashion, discuss how to follow God's plan for you in your job.   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live radio, listen to all of our podcasts, and find additional information and resources related to our Catholic faith. And if you want to support The RED-C Apostolate and all that we do, please consider mak...

Esteemed cardiologist, Dr. Richard Cashion, and his son, Trey Cashion, discuss how to approach the practice of medicine with joy, and reveal truths applicable to every profession.   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live radio, listen to all of our podcasts, and find additional information and resources related to our Catholic faith. And if you want to support The R...

55-year cardiologist, Dr. Richard Cashion, and his son, Trey Cashion, discuss a family emergency in which Trey's young daughter played a crucial role in saving her grandmother's life by relaying the details of the cardiac event she witnessed. The two explain how important it is to actually listen to patients and witnesses.   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live ra...

55-year cardiologist Dr. Richard Cashion and his son and former Medical Business Administrator, Trey Cashion, discuss Saint Paul's words in 1 Corinthians and its implications on the administration of medicine and care for patients.   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live radio, listen to all of our podcasts, and find additional information and resources related to...

Dr. Cashion answers a question from a medical student about the appropriateness of evangelization in healthcare and gives some great advice to all of us on how to broach the topic of faith in those we interact with in our own occupations.   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live radio, listen to all of our podcasts, and find additional information and resources rela...

55 year Cardiologist, Dr. Richard Cashion, discusses suffering and within the context of medicine.   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live radio, listen to all of our podcasts, and find additional information and resources related to our Catholic faith. And if you want to support The RED-C Apostolate and all that we do, please consider making a recurring or one-tim...

55 year Cardiologist, Dr. Richard Cashion, discusses the Resurrection of Jesus and its implications on the field of medicine with his son, Trey Cashion.   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live radio, listen to all of our podcasts, and find additional information and resources related to our Catholic faith. And if you want to support The RED-C Apostolate and all tha...

"As I jumped off the train I said dear God help me and protect me.  Guardian Angel protect me... and I did not even have a sprained ankle, a cactus thorn, or anything... and I was in my early 70s, that was about 10 years ago."   Dr. Richard Cashion recalls with Trey Cashion how he and his wife Cindy truly needed their guardian angels on a train trip in New Mexico.  This is a harrowing story of rec...

"The nurse says, 'Would y'all want to say a Divine Mercy Chaplet?" And they prayed it in the room together. It was like God had just said, 'You asked for it; you got it.'"   55-year cardiologist, Dr. Richard Cashion, and his son, Trey Cashion, discuss The Divine Mercy Chaplet and its relation to the medical field.   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live radio, list...

"Medicine needs to change its direction . . . So just like St. Paul and St. Luke changed directions with the direction by the Holy Spirit . . . we need to switch 180 degrees [in medicine] also—we need to get God back in the picture."   In this episode of The Joy of Medicine, Trey Cashion and his father, 55-year cardiologist, Dr. Richard Cashion, draw from Acts 20—when St. Paul and St. Luke began t...

"Pam came by to see me . . . and I'm not afraid of death anymore."   In the medical field, there is a common misconception that death is the enemy that needs to be defeated. However, according to Dr. Richard Cashion and Trey Cashion, from a Catholic perspective, the role of a physician in caring for terminally ill patients is to assist them in preparing for a good death. Our two hosts delve into p...

"This is a fantastic day, [a patient] asked me to pray with them!"   Trey Cashion talks to his father, Dr. Richard Cashion, about the role of prayer in his 55 years as a cardiologist. Dr. Cashion includes a moving (and humorous) story about Marshal, a man with two hearts.   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live radio, listen to all of our podcasts, and find additio...

In this week's episode of The Joy of Medicine, Harvard-trained cardiologist, Dr. Richard Cashion, recounts a miracle he witnessed during heart surgery. Trey and Dr. Cashion also discuss The Joyful Mysteries in relation to finding joy in medicine.   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live radio, listen to all of our podcasts, and find additional information and resour...

Trey Cashion and Dr. Richard Cashion discuss the role of faith in medicine and recount various stories from Dr. Cashion's 55 years as a cardiologist.   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live radio, listen to all of our podcasts, and find additional information and resources related to our Catholic faith. And if you want to support RED-C Apostolate and all that we do...

The premiere episode of The Joy of Medicine features our co-hosts, Trey Cashion and Dr. William Richard Cashion, Jr., as they delve into Dr. Cashion's education, experience, and call to spiritual ministry through his medical practice.   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live radio, listen to all of our podcasts, and find additional information and resources related...