Dr. Kittleson: Having a trusted mentor or colleague where you can debrief and process in a safe space is so critical to processing and moving forward. "We cannot control tragedies, but we have to do our best by the patient and their family," she says. She shares her six-step method for delivering bad news with CNN iReport.
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In this episode, Dr. Gurleen Kaur (medicine resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Director of CardioNerds Internship) and CardioNerds Academy interns Dr. Akiva Rosenzveig (medicine intern at Cleveland Clinic), Dr. Chelsea Tweneboah (medicine intern at Stonybrook University), student doctor Shivani Reddy (medical student at Western Michigan University), student doctor Diane Masket (medical student at Rowan School of Osteopathic Medicine), and student doctor Tina Reddy (medical student at Tulane University School of Medicine) discuss with Dr. Michelle Kittleson (Director of Education in Heart Failure and Transplantation, Director of HF Research, and Professor of Medicine at Cedars Sinai) about Mastering the Art of Patient Care. Dr. Kittleson shares pearls of wisdom from her book on topics including career transitions, mentorship, dealing with uncertainty, learning from mistakes, delivering difficult news, and being a woman and parent in medicine.
This episode was planned by Dr. Gurleen Kaur and episode audio was edited by student doctor Tina Reddy.
