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Saul J Weiner

@saulweiner

A physician trying to face tough challenges in health care quality and performance, with an eye towards the broader context, particularly the patient's.

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1/CSI:OPIOIDs is a research study to examine suicides that happen after prescription opioid dose reductions in patients with long-term pain, so that these losses can be prevented This is our study. This is our passion. This is us. #NoMoreSuicide sites.uab.edu/csiopioids/

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ā€œSome physicians find that ChatGPT improves their ability to communicate empathetically with patientsā€ reports the The New York Times Medical training has a problem Our latest podcast from On Becoming a Healer explains how we fix it .. by being human pod.link/healer/episode…

ā€œSome physicians find that ChatGPT improves their ability to communicate empathetically with patientsā€ reports the <a href="/nytimes/">The New York Times</a> 

Medical training has a problem 

Our latest podcast from On Becoming a Healer explains how we fix it ..

by being human 

pod.link/healer/episode…
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Do doctors need artificially intelligent bots to help them speak like actual human beings? A recent report in The New York Times says ā€œmaybeā€ We talk about helping doctors find their own voice in this week’s On Becoming a Healer podcast Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2Vrxta…

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Our latest podcast from On Becoming a Healer - #1 in a series Co-host Saul J Weiner tells his story of confronting medical training with a learning disability open.spotify.com/episode/1sQqR3… #MedEd #Disability American Medical Student Association (AMSA) #MedTwitter

Our latest podcast from On Becoming a Healer - #1 in a series

Co-host <a href="/SaulWeiner/">Saul J Weiner</a> tells his story of confronting medical training with a learning disability 

open.spotify.com/episode/1sQqR3…

#MedEd #Disability <a href="/AMSANational/">American Medical Student Association (AMSA)</a> #MedTwitter
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<a href="/ASF_Alabama/">Albert Schweitzer Fellowship of Alabama</a> is improving health, developing leaders &amp; creating change. They are developing a pipeline of diverse, emerging leaders who enter the workforce dedicated to addressing health needs of underserved populations in Birmingham.

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How effects of racism were mistaken for ā€œraceā€ in clinical algorithms: What clinicians should know New podcast episode from ā€œOn Becoming a Healerā€ with @_NatashaNichols bijal jain-mehta Saul J Weiner pod.link/healer/episode…

How effects of racism were mistaken for ā€œraceā€ in clinical algorithms: What clinicians should know

New podcast episode from 
ā€œOn Becoming a Healerā€

with @_NatashaNichols <a href="/bijaljainmehta1/">bijal jain-mehta</a> <a href="/SaulWeiner/">Saul J Weiner</a> 

pod.link/healer/episode…
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This podcast from On Becoming a Healer offers a fresh, vulnerable conversation, one well worth sharing. I interview cohost Saul Weiner on confronting racist ideas that, as he puts it, "I didn't realize I had" This is about how we learn peoples’ stories, and make care better,

This podcast from On Becoming a Healer offers a fresh, vulnerable conversation, one well worth sharing. 

I interview cohost Saul Weiner on confronting racist ideas that, as he puts it, "I didn't realize I had" 

This is about how we learn peoples’ stories, and make  care better,
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When my cohost Saul proposed a podcast about his efforts to counter "racist ideas" affecting him as a doctor I was skeptical. "If this is about racism, why aren't we asking on a Black guest?" I asked. Saul quoted Toni Morrison: "White people have a very serious problem, and

When my cohost Saul proposed a podcast about his efforts to counter "racist ideas" affecting him as a doctor I was skeptical. 

"If this is about racism, why aren't we asking on a Black guest?" I asked. 

Saul quoted Toni Morrison: "White people have a very serious problem, and
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šŸ”Š ā€œSonny’s Bluesā€ is a 1956 story by James Baldwin, about a ā€œsensibleā€ pragmatic algebra teacher and his musically gifted younger brother, who struggles with heroin addiction. With an English professor, we reflect on lessons of this story for the physician-patient relationship

šŸ”Š
ā€œSonny’s Bluesā€ is a 1956 story by James Baldwin, about a ā€œsensibleā€ pragmatic algebra teacher and his musically gifted younger brother, who struggles with heroin addiction. 

With an English professor, we reflect on lessons of this story for the physician-patient relationship
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šŸ”ŠIn our latest On Becoming a Healer podcast, Dr. Martin Shapiro critiques today's medical profession suffused with status, money & poweršŸ’° Meaningful care experiences are possible, but require us to reject corrupting forces in medicineāš•ļø Listen now: pod.link/healer/episode…

šŸ”ŠIn our latest On Becoming a Healer podcast, Dr. Martin Shapiro critiques today's medical profession suffused with status, money &amp; poweršŸ’°

Meaningful care experiences are possible, but require us to reject corrupting forces in medicineāš•ļø  
Listen now: pod.link/healer/episode…
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Stefan and Saul rocked this nuanced conversation bringing in humanity and the need for clarity on giving patients agency and the benefit of the doubt. Holding overdose survivor against their will may backfire by increasing distrust in healthcare. A must-listen to.

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ā€œWhile My Guitar Gently Weepsā€ Classical Rendition From Saul Weiner cohost of our podcast ā€œOn Becoming a Healerā€

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1/šŸ”ŠOur new podcast from *On Becoming a Healer* is on prescription drug monitoring programs They’re used by prescribers, pharmacies & law enforcement Guest Liz Chiarello.com helps us explore how this technology reshapes care of patients Our podcast streams everywhere (see below)

1/šŸ”ŠOur new podcast from *On Becoming a Healer* is on prescription drug monitoring programs

They’re used by prescribers, pharmacies &amp; law enforcement

Guest <a href="/Liz_Chiarello/">Liz Chiarello.com</a> helps us explore how this technology reshapes care of patients

Our podcast streams everywhere (see below)
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3/The resulting podcast is engrossing & impassioned but also nuanced On Becoming a Healer now streams everywhere, including šŸ“ŗYouTube: youtu.be/7Ml0pz4t00o?si… šŸŽApple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-… šŸŽ§Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/1se5q8… More: pod.link/healer/episode…

3/The resulting podcast is engrossing &amp; impassioned but also nuanced 

 On Becoming a Healer now streams everywhere, including 

šŸ“ŗYouTube: youtu.be/7Ml0pz4t00o?si…

šŸŽApple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-…

šŸŽ§Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/1se5q8…

More: pod.link/healer/episode…
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4/The book ā€œPolicing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisisā€ from Princeton University Press is available everywhere including their website press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove… Amazon a.co/d/fD2N3YJ

4/The book ā€œPolicing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisisā€ from <a href="/PrincetonUPress/">Princeton University Press</a> is available everywhere including their website

press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Amazon a.co/d/fD2N3YJ
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1/VA research brought us the pacemaker, CT scan, treatments for TB, better care for PTSD, spinal cord injury & focus on homelessness & suicide A new piece in JAMA Internal Medicine says ā€œVA research is under threatā€ It matters This represents my views- not positions of any agency

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🚨The record of physicians standing up for our values as healers under authoritarian regimes is not good, historically speaking. In this podcast, we ask if docs in the US will do better, this time around ā€œOn Becoming a Healerā€ podcast streams on all services - links below /1

🚨The record of physicians standing up for our values as healers under authoritarian regimes is not good, historically speaking.

In this podcast, we ask if docs in the US will do better, this time around

ā€œOn Becoming a Healerā€ podcast streams on all services  - links below /1
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2/In this podcast, 2 physicians wrestle with whether our profession will serve as the ā€œobedient servantsā€ authoritarians expect, or as the champions that patients require. Listen here: pod.link/healer/episode… YouTube: youtu.be/x1iwqRgUPpo?si… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1erHrg…

2/In this podcast, 2 physicians wrestle with whether our profession will serve as the ā€œobedient servantsā€ authoritarians expect, or as the champions that patients require.

Listen here: pod.link/healer/episode… 
YouTube: youtu.be/x1iwqRgUPpo?si…

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1erHrg…