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This is a series of conversations that gives listeners a glimpse behind the scenes of medicine, focusing on the very human stories behind every patient and provider interaction.
Conversations of the Heart podcast episodes
Concussions can happen to anyone at anytime and anywhere. A traumatic brain injury or TBI can be mild to severe. Its effects can be overwhelming and life altering. In this episode, we will meet a woman in her 70’s whose life turned upside down after a bad fall down a staircase and the medical team who helped her regain her footing.
Millions of people are affected by uncommon, unknown or undiagnosed diseases. Some appear at birth, others emerge in adulthood. Many are genetic in origin and there is often scant information in the medical literature about them. It can take years to get an accurate diagnosis, which is too late for many patients. There are also few effective treatments much less cures for these diseases. In this episode, we will meet a woman whose family has been dogged by a mysterious disease for generations, what it took to crack its genetic code and the search for a cure.
Hospitals have Grand Rounds where residents and medical students present a patient’s case to senior physicians. It’s an important part of medical education. Now consider how such a gathering might be different if the case was presented and analyzed not from a medical point of view…but through the lens of human emotion. There is such a thing and it’s called Schwartz Rounds.
Medical science tends the body but hospital chaplains tend the soul, helping patients and families make sense of pain and suffering, disease and death. That's the focus of this episode of "Conversations of the Heart: Prescriptions for Healing."
Critical care is one of the most stressful of medical specialties. It takes a unique individual to navigate the challenges of an ICU. In this episode, we meet Christina Bastin DeJong of Duluth, Minnesota, who is a veteran ICU physician and even under the intense pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic, can't think of a better job to have.
The Covid-19 pandemic has killed nearly seven million people worldwide. Minneapolis based filmmaker Walter Byrd beat Covid thanks to the care of his medical team, his courage and a little Divine Intervention.
