Hippie Docs 2.0: Re-Humanizing Medicine
19 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsHippie Docs 2.0: Re-Humanizing Medicine is hosted by psychiatrist Dr. Paul Linde, inspired by the generation of doctors working during the Civil Rights era and the ripple effect on today's physicians who are dedicated to social justice and emphasizing the doctor-patient relationship in the face of increasing corporatization of medicine.
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Doctor as Writer/ Author as Physician: Narrative Medicine is Quietly Revolutionary, and Paul Converses with Pediatrician and Memoirist Dr. Claire Unis to investigate the synergy of practices.
August 04, 2022 19:06 - 34 minutes - 47.6 MBDr. Claire Unis is a writer, pediatrician and mom living and working in Auburn, California. The author of the recent memoir Balance Pedal Breathe: A Journey Through Medical School, Claire embraces and blends both facets of herself, and uses her passions and skills as a pediatrician, memoirist and practitioner of narrative medicine in concert, to work with her young patients and forge a new path for herself and her colleagues. There is a huge overlap with writing and medicine, involving ...
A Deep Dive into Primary Care Medicine: A Conversation with Dr. John Mendelson, an Addiction Researcher and Physician, Startup Co-founder, and Primary Care Doctor for 30 Years.
June 01, 2022 16:32 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBMedicine is more of a team sport than we might like to admit, and yet the romance of one-on-one care glorified in TV shows like Marcus Welby, M.D. continue to be mythologized. Airing from 1969-1976, the show starred Robert Young as the title character, a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner, who was on a first-name basis with many of his patients (and who also made house calls). There have been tectonic shifts in medicine both in terms of treatments and the delivery of care ...
The Psychology of a Pandemic: How Covid has Transformed both the Clinical Psychology Practice and Patients of Dr. Jeb Berkeley
April 02, 2022 01:30 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MBJeb Berkeley, PhD is a clinical psychologist in San Francisco whose practice focuses on the treatment of the symptoms of anxiety and depression expressed in the realms of love, family, partnership, loss, addiction, work, health, uncertainty and pleasure. With 40 years of experience, Dr. Berkeley shares mental health insights into the challenges and opportunities the global pandemic has created during the last two years. With therapists sharing the trauma with patients, and unable to pro...
2022 TRAILER — Hippie Docs 2.0 Re-Humanizing Medicine Podcast
February 01, 2022 05:36 - 53 seconds - 1.23 MBCreated and hosted by a seasoned San Francisco psychiatrist and author, Paul R. Linde, MD, the trailblazing podcast "Hippie Docs 2.0: Re-Humanizing Medicine” seeks to examine the good work that’s already happening in medicine while simultaneously exploring ways to re-imagine our healthcare system. Many of our episodes discuss the power of progressive medicine and how a return to a more mindful and heart-based medical practice makes for a more humane and effective model. We look closely ...
Psychedelics as Agents of Transformation: A Conversation with Psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Guo, Director of Psychedelic Medicine at Mindful Health Solutions
December 31, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes - 47.9 MBThere has been a renaissance of interest in the boundary-pushing, consciousness-altering medications for alleviation of suffering in psychiatric patients. Bipartisan in nature, and with a growing public interest from politicians and donors, this movement is spurred by a cultural shift away from the War on Drugs. Mainstream explorations and writings by the likes of Michael Pollan have raised public awareness of how psychedelics may work in treating Depression, Anxiety, and PTSD. Medicine...
Roots of a Crisis in the Profession of Nursing: A Conversation with Dr. Sharon Goldfarb, experienced clinician, educator, and public health advocate.
December 01, 2021 17:29 - 30 minutes - 41.2 MBThe ravages and toll of the Covid pandemic with its associated breakdown in civility, complicated by a flawed pipeline in Nursing education, define the current challenges facing our beleaguered Nursing workforce in the U.S. An insufficient investment of both time and money, a misplaced hero worship, disinformation, and an unrealistic expectation for sustained effort in the face of perpetual tragedy contribute to a slow but steady erosion of the foundation of Nursing. Dr. Sharon Goldfarb...
Global Mental Health Care & the Empower Initiative: A Conversation with Dr. Vikram Patel, Psychiatrist and Endowed Professor at Harvard Medical School
November 01, 2021 05:40 - 32 minutes - 44 MBWhen it comes to treating depression, it's the rest of the world that is delivering health care innovations to the United States. The global burden of unrecognized and untreated depression in terms of suffering and lost productivity is staggering. This is not just true in economically developing countries, but in the United States as well. A lack of broad access to affordable, effective, quality-based mental health care is a universal problem. In recent years, innovative research has dr...
Health Equity for Communities of Color: A Conversation with Dr. Scott Cook, a Physician and International Lecturer on Health Disparities
October 01, 2021 15:56 - 34 minutes - 47.6 MB‘If America catches a cold, black folks get pneumonia’ is a common phrase in the African-American community, and we have seen the suffering during Covid fall disproportionately on communities of color. Thirty years ago, Dr. Scott Cook wrote his thesis on “The Public Health Implications of Institutional Racism and how it Affects the Health of African American Males”. He was given some pushback on the topic at the time. Homicide, gun violence, and alcohol/drug dependence just then being u...
Inflamed: Deep Medicine & the Anatomy of Injustice A Conversation with the Academics, Authors, and Activists Drs. Rupa Marya and Raj Patel
September 01, 2021 20:10 - 38 minutes - 52.5 MBThe Covid pandemic has starkly demonstrated the reality that those individuals experiencing poverty and social inequality get sick and die at higher rates than the general population. This is also true with other illnesses. Inflammation is the body’s response to infectious agents and environmental toxins but also to chronic stress and suffering inflicted by things like poverty and structural racism. It is not hyperbolic to say at this juncture that we are an ‘inflamed’ society and plane...
Surf Therapy for Combat Veterans: A Conversation with VA Psychiatrist, Dr. John Straznickas
March 31, 2021 23:30 - 36 minutes - 50.2 MBThe emotional world and the ocean realm share many parallels. San Francisco VA Psychiatrist Dr. John Straznickas, cofounder of the Veterans Surf Alliance, takes small groups of combat veterans out to ride the waves on his own time. It marks an outside-the-box and humanistic approach to treatment. Many of these vets suffer from PTS — sans D as post-traumatic stress occurs on a spectrum and the symptoms are considered a normal response to abnormal circumstances. Struggling at times with ...
Caregiving Made Him a Radical Feminist: A Conversation with Dr. Arthur Kleinman
March 01, 2021 06:24 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MBThey were an academic power couple at Harvard University when Dr. Arthur Kleinman’s wife Joan became ill with early-onset Alzheimer's Dementia. Arthur became her primary caregiver. A harrowing odyssey of decline follows, challenging this capable and loving Professor of Psychiatry and Anthropology and inspiring his poignant and revealing book The Soul of Care; The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor. Paul talks to Arthur about his beloved Joan’s illness and care, and how he lea...
Human Rights Medicine: A Conversation with Dr. Coleen Kivlahan
February 01, 2021 05:16 - 34 minutes - 47.7 MBPaul has a frank and sobering conversation with Dr. Coleen Kivlahan, Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine, who is a local and global expert and leader in Refugee, Immigrant, Asylum and Human Rights Medicine. Her name may sound familiar as she was a previous guest on Hippie Docs 2.0, talking about her own experience as a patient with Covid-19. In this episode, Dr. Kivlahan describes her work in Sierra Leone, Guatemala, the DRC, Syria, and in the US, ...
The Artist of Clinical Medicine: A Conversation with Dr. Sondra Zabar
January 01, 2021 17:01 - 40 minutes - 55.8 MBPaul chats with Dr. Sondra Zabar, a Professor of Medicine at NYU in the division of general internal medicine and clinical innovation. Dr. Zabar actively supervises hundreds of primary care physicians at NYU. Teaching the “art of clinical medicine” to an entire generation of medical students, interns, and residents, Dr. Zabar cultivates curiosity, active listening, and the development of a good bedside manner. Research has shown that these physician skills lead to better diagnostic reas...
An Original Hippie Doc: A Conversation with Dr. John Good
December 01, 2020 19:24 - 32 minutes - 45 MBA one-on-one interview with Dr. John Good, one of the many inspirations for this podcast and an original hippie doc. Recently retired after nearly 50 years of practice spanning the Vietnam, Civil Rights, Women’s Lib, and AIDS eras, Dr. Good shares recollections from his long-haired, bell-bottom wearing, VW Bus driving days, to his most recent experiences treating Covid patients. This wide-ranging and colorful conversation will not only conjure memories of the 60’s & 70’s, but also focu...
The Heart of Medicine: A Conversation with Integrative Medicine Physician Dr. Jeff Draisin
October 30, 2020 17:48 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBOur healthcare system was already on the ropes pre-Coronavirus pandemic, as our country creeped towards some kind of national health coverage. Much of our current crisis highlights how fragmented, inefficient and unprepared we are to deal with this overwhelming catastrophe, despite incredible heroic actions by many on the front lines of this ongoing medical emergency. Before our current reality, Hippie Docs spoke with Dr. Jeff Draisin, a San Francisco based Integrative Medical Practiti...
Exploring Psychedelic Assisted Therapies with Dr. Emily Williams
October 01, 2020 04:37 - 35 minutes - 48.6 MBOur conversation with UCSF psychiatrist, researcher, and educator Dr. Emily Williams delved into her work exploring psychedelic-assisted therapies and her groundbreaking contribution to clinical studies utilizing MDMA for severe PTSD and psilocybin for end-of-life care, as well as her clinical work providing ketamine-assisted treatment for severe depression. Only a couple years out of her psychiatric residency, Dr. Williams represents the HippieDocs 2.0 generation, building on the work ...
Silent Voices: A Psychiatrist's Quest to Understand Homelessness and Addiction
October 01, 2020 04:31 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBIn his Marin County tree-house, surrounded by redwood branches, with squirrels dancing around us, Dr. Robert Okin, author, activist, distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry in the UCSF School of Medicine, and a leading psychiatrist and internationally known expert on mental health service reform, was interviewed by the Hippie Docs team. The conversation with Dr. Paul Linde was wide ranging and centered around Dr. Okin's approach to re-humanizing medicine.
Pandemic: When the Doctor Becomes the Patient
October 01, 2020 04:06 - 41 minutes - 56.9 MBMonths into the Covid-19 Pandemic, we know more about Coronavirus and its epidemiology than ever before, but still not enough, as this dastardly virus continues wreaking havoc on lives and economies across the globe. A Professor of Family and Community Medicine at UCSF, Dr. Coleen Kivlahan sees patients on the front lines of the pandemic. In addition, as one of the first healthcare workers in SF to contract the virus from a patient, Dr. Kivlahan knows Covid-19 intimately.
Trailer for Hippie Docs 2.0: Re-Humanizing Medicine
September 17, 2020 21:41 - 1 minute - 1.86 MBHere's a quick introduction to our new podcast series. Enjoy!