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    <itunes:title>The Patient I’ll Never Forget | Dr. Tommy Martin</itunes:title>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[What makes medicine worth the sacrifice?

Dr. Tommy Martin—a pediatric hospitalist at Boston Children’s Hospital, physician, endurance athlete, and one of medicine’s most influential voices on social media—shares the patient encounter that changed his life forever.

After a long residency shift, Tommy was exhausted and simply wanted to get home to his wife and son. Instead, one final patient reminded him why he became a doctor.

The next morning, he returned with one unforgettable meal.

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    <description><![CDATA[What makes medicine worth the sacrifice?

Dr. Tommy Martin—a pediatric hospitalist at Boston Children’s Hospital, physician, endurance athlete, and one of medicine’s most influential voices on social media—shares the patient encounter that changed his life forever.

After a long residency shift, Tommy was exhausted and simply wanted to get home to his wife and son. Instead, one final patient reminded him why he became a doctor.

The next morning, he returned with one unforgettable meal.

That single act of kindness reshaped how he practices medicine—and why he believes every patient deserves our full presence.

In this deeply personal conversation, Dr. David Spiro and Dr. Tommy Martin discuss:

• The patient who restored Tommy’s passion for medicine
• Why medicine isn’t worth it without human connection
• Caring for children with complex medical needs
• Parenting a child with autism and a rare genetic condition
• Finding balance between medicine and family
• Authenticity, vulnerability, and physician burnout
• Why love, presence, and compassion remain medicine’s greatest tools

If you’re a physician, healthcare professional, student, patient, or simply someone who believes kindness still matters, this episode is for you.

Subscribe for weekly conversations exploring the human side of medicine.


Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices]]></description>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[What makes medicine worth the sacrifice?

Dr. Tommy Martin—a pediatric hospitalist at Boston Children’s Hospital, physician, endurance athlete, and one of medicine’s most influential voices on social media—shares the patient encounter that changed his life forever.

After a long residency shift, Tommy was exhausted and simply wanted to get home to his wife and son. Instead, one final patient reminded him why he became a doctor.

The next morning, he returned with one unforgettable meal.

That single act of kindness reshaped how he practices medicine—and why he believes every patient deserves our full presence.

In this deeply personal conversation, Dr. David Spiro and Dr. Tommy Martin discuss:

• The patient who restored Tommy’s passion for medicine
• Why medicine isn’t worth it without human connection
• Caring for children with complex medical needs
• Parenting a child with autism and a rare genetic condition
• Finding balance between medicine and family
• Authenticity, vulnerability, and physician burnout
• Why love, presence, and compassion remain medicine’s greatest tools

If you’re a physician, healthcare professional, student, patient, or simply someone who believes kindness still matters, this episode is for you.

Subscribe for weekly conversations exploring the human side of medicine.


Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices]]></content:encoded>
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    <itunes:title>He Taught Me to Be a Doctor, He was Not a Doctor</itunes:title>
    <title>He Taught Me to Be a Doctor, He was Not a Doctor</title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this deeply moving episode of HuMed, Dr. David Spiro speaks with Dr. Julia Bruckner, a pediatric emergency physician, writer, and Director of Faculty Well-Being at the University of Colorado.



Dr. Bruckner shares how her father — a minister, humanist, advocate, and witness to suffering — taught her lessons about healing that medicine alone often cannot teach. Together, they explore what it means to give devastating news, sit with suffering, care for families in crisis, support physi...]]></itunes:summary>
    <description><![CDATA[In this deeply moving episode of HuMed, Dr. David Spiro speaks with Dr. Julia Bruckner, a pediatric emergency physician, writer, and Director of Faculty Well-Being at the University of Colorado.



Dr. Bruckner shares how her father — a minister, humanist, advocate, and witness to suffering — taught her lessons about healing that medicine alone often cannot teach. Together, they explore what it means to give devastating news, sit with suffering, care for families in crisis, support physicians after trauma, and bring humanity back into medicine.



This conversation moves through grief, cancer, hospice, physician wellness, pediatric emergency medicine, and the quiet power of presence. At its heart is a simple message from Dr. Bruckner’s father: because the world will die without it, go with love.



Topics include:

humanizing medicine, physician wellness, giving bad news, hospice, grief, narrative medicine, pediatric emergency care, burnout, compassion, and love as a form of healing.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices]]></description>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[In this deeply moving episode of HuMed, Dr. David Spiro speaks with Dr. Julia Bruckner, a pediatric emergency physician, writer, and Director of Faculty Well-Being at the University of Colorado.



Dr. Bruckner shares how her father — a minister, humanist, advocate, and witness to suffering — taught her lessons about healing that medicine alone often cannot teach. Together, they explore what it means to give devastating news, sit with suffering, care for families in crisis, support physicians after trauma, and bring humanity back into medicine.



This conversation moves through grief, cancer, hospice, physician wellness, pediatric emergency medicine, and the quiet power of presence. At its heart is a simple message from Dr. Bruckner’s father: because the world will die without it, go with love.



Topics include:

humanizing medicine, physician wellness, giving bad news, hospice, grief, narrative medicine, pediatric emergency care, burnout, compassion, and love as a form of healing.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices]]></content:encoded>
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    <itunes:title>From Patient To Daughter</itunes:title>
    <title>From Patient To Daughter</title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[What happens when a patient changes your life forever?



In this unforgettable episode of HuMed, pediatric orthopedic surgeon Dr. Ron Turker shares the remarkable story of a one-month-old infant who arrived in the emergency department with multiple fractures and severe injuries—and ultimately became his daughter.  



Dr. Turker reflects on child abuse, foster care, adoption, trauma, attachment, fatherhood, and the profound lessons he learned raising a child who...]]></itunes:summary>
    <description><![CDATA[What happens when a patient changes your life forever?



In this unforgettable episode of HuMed, pediatric orthopedic surgeon Dr. Ron Turker shares the remarkable story of a one-month-old infant who arrived in the emergency department with multiple fractures and severe injuries—and ultimately became his daughter.  



Dr. Turker reflects on child abuse, foster care, adoption, trauma, attachment, fatherhood, and the profound lessons he learned raising a child whose life began with extraordinary adversity. He also discusses physician empathy, judgment, chronic pain, healthcare reform, physician burnout, mental health, social media, community, and why human connection remains at the heart of healing.  



This is a conversation about medicine, family, resilience, second chances, and the patient who changed everything.



Topics Discussed



• Child abuse and child advocacy

• Foster care and adoption

• Parenting and attachment

• Pediatric orthopedic surgery

• Chronic pain in children

• Physician burnout and moral injury

• Mental health and social media

• Healthcare reform

• Human connection and healing

• The human side of medicine
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices]]></description>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[What happens when a patient changes your life forever?



In this unforgettable episode of HuMed, pediatric orthopedic surgeon Dr. Ron Turker shares the remarkable story of a one-month-old infant who arrived in the emergency department with multiple fractures and severe injuries—and ultimately became his daughter.  



Dr. Turker reflects on child abuse, foster care, adoption, trauma, attachment, fatherhood, and the profound lessons he learned raising a child whose life began with extraordinary adversity. He also discusses physician empathy, judgment, chronic pain, healthcare reform, physician burnout, mental health, social media, community, and why human connection remains at the heart of healing.  



This is a conversation about medicine, family, resilience, second chances, and the patient who changed everything.



Topics Discussed



• Child abuse and child advocacy

• Foster care and adoption

• Parenting and attachment

• Pediatric orthopedic surgery

• Chronic pain in children

• Physician burnout and moral injury

• Mental health and social media

• Healthcare reform

• Human connection and healing

• The human side of medicine
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices]]></content:encoded>
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    <itunes:title>Healthy Mama Doc Almost Lost Her Own Son</itunes:title>
    <title>Healthy Mama Doc Almost Lost Her Own Son</title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[What happens when a high-risk OB can't diagnose her own son?

Dr. Sarah Pachtman-Shetty is a double board-certified maternal-fetal medicine specialist — a doctor trained to manage the most critical pregnancies imaginable. But when her two-year-old son Orion spiked a fever on a Caribbean vacation and his O2 sat dropped into the 70s, all that training couldn't stop her from feeling like a helpless mom.



In this raw and unforgettable episode of HuMed, Sarah shares the terrifying night she call...]]></itunes:summary>
    <description><![CDATA[What happens when a high-risk OB can&apos;t diagnose her own son?

Dr. Sarah Pachtman-Shetty is a double board-certified maternal-fetal medicine specialist — a doctor trained to manage the most critical pregnancies imaginable. But when her two-year-old son Orion spiked a fever on a Caribbean vacation and his O2 sat dropped into the 70s, all that training couldn&apos;t stop her from feeling like a helpless mom.



In this raw and unforgettable episode of HuMed, Sarah shares the terrifying night she called 911 on a St. Martin island, fought for a chest X-ray in a foreign ER at 2am, and watched a jack-of-all-trades surgeon prepare to place a chest tube in her toddler — with no pediatric ventilator in sight.



This is the human side of medicine no one talks about.



 Dr. Sarah Pachtman-Shetty | Maternal-Fetal Medicine | @HealthyMamaDoc 

 Virtual consultations: Uma Health



In this episode:


  The vacation that became a medical nightmare

  Why even expert physicians miss signs in their own children

  Practicing medicine in maternity care deserts

  How a near-tragedy reordered her entire life




 Subscribe for more stories from the human side of medicine 

 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts



#HuMed #MaternalFetalMedicine #HighRiskPregnancy #PhysicianLife #DoctorStories #MomLife #MedicalPodcast #WomensHealth
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices]]></description>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[What happens when a high-risk OB can&apos;t diagnose her own son?

Dr. Sarah Pachtman-Shetty is a double board-certified maternal-fetal medicine specialist — a doctor trained to manage the most critical pregnancies imaginable. But when her two-year-old son Orion spiked a fever on a Caribbean vacation and his O2 sat dropped into the 70s, all that training couldn&apos;t stop her from feeling like a helpless mom.



In this raw and unforgettable episode of HuMed, Sarah shares the terrifying night she called 911 on a St. Martin island, fought for a chest X-ray in a foreign ER at 2am, and watched a jack-of-all-trades surgeon prepare to place a chest tube in her toddler — with no pediatric ventilator in sight.



This is the human side of medicine no one talks about.



 Dr. Sarah Pachtman-Shetty | Maternal-Fetal Medicine | @HealthyMamaDoc 

 Virtual consultations: Uma Health



In this episode:


  The vacation that became a medical nightmare

  Why even expert physicians miss signs in their own children

  Practicing medicine in maternity care deserts

  How a near-tragedy reordered her entire life




 Subscribe for more stories from the human side of medicine 

 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts



#HuMed #MaternalFetalMedicine #HighRiskPregnancy #PhysicianLife #DoctorStories #MomLife #MedicalPodcast #WomensHealth
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices]]></content:encoded>
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    <itunes:title>Time Is Finite: Dr. Jenna Taglienti on the Physician&#39;s Illusion of Control and Shift in Priorities</itunes:title>
    <title>Time Is Finite: Dr. Jenna Taglienti on the Physician&#39;s Illusion of Control and Shift in Priorities</title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this episode of HuMed, Dr. David Spiro is joined by Dr. Jenna Taglienti, a psychiatrist, residency program director, and assistant professor at the Zucker School of Medicine. Dr. Taglienti's recent JAMA essay, Time Is Finite, sparked widespread reflection across the medical field.

Dr. Taglienti shares her deeply personal story of receiving an unexpected lung cancer diagnosis as a lifelong nonsmoker, which forced her to take a medical leave and step back from her roles. The experience prov...]]></itunes:summary>
    <description><![CDATA[In this episode of HuMed, Dr. David Spiro is joined by Dr. Jenna Taglienti, a psychiatrist, residency program director, and assistant professor at the Zucker School of Medicine. Dr. Taglienti&apos;s recent JAMA essay, Time Is Finite, sparked widespread reflection across the medical field.

Dr. Taglienti shares her deeply personal story of receiving an unexpected lung cancer diagnosis as a lifelong nonsmoker, which forced her to take a medical leave and step back from her roles. The experience provided time to reflect on the immense mental load she was carrying, and the true cost of continually postponing life. She discusses the profound realization that &quot;institutions are designed to endure beyond individuals. On the other hand, families are not&quot;. This is a crucial conversation for any physician wrestling with the balance between a demanding career and their irreplaceable role at home.

We discuss:

The &quot;invisible load&quot; of mental energy physicians spend trying to control things that are out of their hands.3
The high divorce rate among doctors and how constant accessibility to work can distract from relationships.3
How the priority of medicine is ingrained from the first day of medical school, and the struggle to shift that focus when relationships and children arrive.3
The importance of being &quot;present&quot; with family and recognizing that small moments with children add up.3
Modeling self-care and good boundaries for residents, demonstrating that it&apos;s okay to prioritize health and return stronger.3
The therapeutic value of vulnerable writing, such as essays submitted to JAMA&apos;s A Piece of My Mind.

Subscribe to HuMed with David Spiro, MD for more conversations about the human side of medicine.

#PhysicianBurnout #WorkLifeBalance #TimeIsFinite #PhysicianWellness #Psychiatry #ResidencyLife #JAMA #HuMed
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices]]></description>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[In this episode of HuMed, Dr. David Spiro is joined by Dr. Jenna Taglienti, a psychiatrist, residency program director, and assistant professor at the Zucker School of Medicine. Dr. Taglienti&apos;s recent JAMA essay, Time Is Finite, sparked widespread reflection across the medical field.

Dr. Taglienti shares her deeply personal story of receiving an unexpected lung cancer diagnosis as a lifelong nonsmoker, which forced her to take a medical leave and step back from her roles. The experience provided time to reflect on the immense mental load she was carrying, and the true cost of continually postponing life. She discusses the profound realization that &quot;institutions are designed to endure beyond individuals. On the other hand, families are not&quot;. This is a crucial conversation for any physician wrestling with the balance between a demanding career and their irreplaceable role at home.

We discuss:

The &quot;invisible load&quot; of mental energy physicians spend trying to control things that are out of their hands.3
The high divorce rate among doctors and how constant accessibility to work can distract from relationships.3
How the priority of medicine is ingrained from the first day of medical school, and the struggle to shift that focus when relationships and children arrive.3
The importance of being &quot;present&quot; with family and recognizing that small moments with children add up.3
Modeling self-care and good boundaries for residents, demonstrating that it&apos;s okay to prioritize health and return stronger.3
The therapeutic value of vulnerable writing, such as essays submitted to JAMA&apos;s A Piece of My Mind.

Subscribe to HuMed with David Spiro, MD for more conversations about the human side of medicine.

#PhysicianBurnout #WorkLifeBalance #TimeIsFinite #PhysicianWellness #Psychiatry #ResidencyLife #JAMA #HuMed
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices]]></content:encoded>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 18:32:00 -0400</pubDate>
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