Education
Your Brain is not a Computer or a Muscle: Annie Murphy Paul on PYP 493
“Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?” asked two philosophers in 1998. Today’s guest follows the science to give us an unexpected answer.
Read MoreThe heART of Medicine with Jody Esselstyn, RN: PYP 335
Jody Esselstyn is a registered nurse, and docent at the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia.
An unusual combo, perhaps, but Jody combines her two interests – medicine and art – in some innovative and lifesaving ways.
She leads programs that help medicine students make better diagnoses, display more empathy at the bedside, and collaborate more generously with their medical peers through visits to art museums.
Read MoreUnleashing Nurses to Revolutionize Patient Care with Caroline Trapp, DNP: PYP 300
Caroline Trapp, DNP (that’s Doctor of Nursing Practice to you and me), is the director of diabetes education and care with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), as well as a nurse practitioner with Premier Internists in Southfield, Michigan.
Read MoreA Community Effort: PCRM Comes to the North Carolina Triangle: PYP 293
This weekend, the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is bringing its big guns to my neck of the woods, the Triangle region of North Carolina (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill).
Neal Barnard, Suzie Amis Cameron, Eric O’Grey, and others will be bringing their messages of hope and inspiration and information to my community. But PCRM also highlights local heroes – the folks who do good work in this community every day.
Read MoreThe Ultimate in Gut Health with Will Bulsiewicz, MD: PYP 277
Will Bulciewicz, MD, trained to become a gastroenterologist as some of the top GI programs in the world: Georgetown, the University of North Carolina (go ‘heels!), and Northwestern. He’s board certified in both gastroenterology and internal medicine.
Why am I trotting out Will’s credentials to introduce this podcast? Because even with all that education, Will found himself unable to answer even his patients’ most basic questions about what they could do about their own GI conditions.
Read MoreHarnessing the Entrepreneurial Spirit for a Plant-Based World with Matt Tullman: PYP 273
Matt Tullman wants 30% of the US population to go plant-based by the year 2030. And that’s not an idle wish – Matt is doing something (a lot of things, actually) about it.
Matt is a long-time policy wonk, entrepreneur, bio-hacker, and venture capital guy. And he brings all these talents and outlooks to bear on the central problems of our time in history – all of which, he points out, can be solved or significantly improved by the switch to a plant-based diet.
Read MoreThe Counterintuitive Science of Wise Interventions with Gregory Walton, PhD: PYP 267
Gregory Walton has done some of the most groundbreaking social science research of the past decade. His “Wise Interventions” model utilizes brief, targeted experiences to permanently alter a mindset and create a cascading series of life events.
Read MoreTransforming the System of Medical Care with David Donohue, MD: PYP 255
David Donohue is a primary care physician in Wilmington, Delaware, and one of only 280 board-certified lifestyle medicine specialists in the United States. As David points out in our conversation, that’s fewer than one for every million Americans.
I wanted to talk with David about the successful and innovative Cure Diabetes program that he’s run over the past year, but we quickly started egging each other on to describe our pet peeves about the current medical system.
Read MoreScott Stoll on Disrupting Healthcare with Plants: PYP 244
Scott Stoll, MD, understands the power of Believing You Can.
Which is a good thing, because he’s made his life mission a task that would seem daunting to most: to transform the healthcare industry into one that actually practices health care rather than disease management and mitigation.
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