On Becoming a Healer
Hosted by Saul and Stefan · Saul J. Weiner and Stefan Kertesz
5.0from 63 ratings
- 78
- Episodes
- 10
- Transcribed
- 63
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About On Becoming a Healer
Doctors and other health care professionals are too often socialized and pressured to become "efficient task completers" rather than healers, which leads to unengaged and unimaginative medical practice, burnout, and diminished quality of care. It doesn't have to be that way. With a range of thoughtful guests, co-hosts Saul Weiner MD and Stefan Kertesz MD MS, interrogate the culture and context in which clinicians are trained and practice for their implications for patient care and clinician well-being. The podcast builds on Dr. Weiner's 2020 book, On Becoming a Healer: The Journey from Patient Care to Caring about Your Patients (Johns Hopkins University Press).
- Publisher
- Saul J. Weiner and Stefan Kertesz
- Category
- health & fitness · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Sept 2020
- Latest episode
- 20 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
10 of 78 episodes have a transcript.
20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Medicine's Missing Center: The Failure to Engage
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Moral Injury, Moral Courage, and the Business of Medicine
18 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
From East Pakistan to West Texas: What One Immigrant Doctor Gave America
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Medicine's Missing Center: The Failure to Engage
Published 20 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But in my view, critical to understanding the the nature of these relationships. And I think all healing relationships have to have this boundary clarity. So when people get uncomfortable with this idea of, oh, well, the patient is not my friend, I think what we're getting at here is something to do about a murky boundary clarity. Yeah. I think that that's where we're going with this. And by boundary, I mean not knowing where I end and the patient begins or the other person begins. And we want to kind of broaden this. So In the case of the doctor-patient relationship, if the patient becomes very angry all of a sudden, the doctor has a responsibility because they're in a healing role to understand that if they respond to that anger with anger, they are harming the person who they are charged to care about and to care for. […]
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- Diljeet Singh
- Fazlur Rahman
- Jeffrey Jackson
- Khameer Kidia
- John Lawrence MD
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 46 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 17 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100
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- 86
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 51
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Who hosts On Becoming a Healer?
Saul and Stefan host the show. Published by Saul J. Weiner and Stefan Kertesz.
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