Dr. Rana Awdish Almost Died as a Fellow. Now She's Teaching Doctors How to Heal.
About this episode
Dr. Rana Awdish discusses her experiences and research on how medical language affects patient outcomes with Dr. Graham Walker.
Dr. Rana Awdish is a pulmonologist, critical care physician, and Medical Director of Care Experience at Henry Ford Health in Detroit. She is also the author of In Shock , a book that has changed the way countless physicians walk into a patient's room, and her new book After Shock , which picks up where that story left off. Rana nearly died as a fellow from a catastrophic illness that left her hospitalized in the very system she had trained inside. What she heard, experienced, and absorbed from the other side of the bed became the foundation for a decade of research into how medical language shapes patient outcomes. In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Rana to explore what it actually means to heal, both for patients and for the physicians caring for them. They dig into Rana's Never Words research, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, which identifies specific phrases physicians use that strip power from patients and offers concrete alternatives. And they get into the harder questions: how do you build trust with patients, why the data shows compassionate care actually makes clinical visits more efficient, and what it means that medicine has spent…
People in this episode
Host: Dr. Graham Walker
Guest: Dr. Rana Awdish
Topics covered
- patient care
- medical language
- physician wellness
- trust in medicine
- compassionate care
Keywords
- healing
- Never Words
- patient outcomes
- compassionate care
- medical language
- trust
- physician wellness
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Henry Ford Health, Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Books & works: In Shock, After Shock
More episodes of How I Doctor with Dr. Graham Walker
- Now Is Not the Time for Silence. Dr. John Whyte on the AMA, AI, and the Stakes for Physicians Right Now
- Physician VC Dr. John Dayton on What It Takes to Actually Build a Winning Healthcare Startup
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the How I Doctor with Dr. Graham Walker podcast page.