41 min

Dr. River: The Beauty in the Multifaceted, Wholehearted Life Revitalizing Healthcare

    • Medicine

In this podcast episode, Dr. Amanda River, uses her unique perspective to challenge the medical industrial complex and describes her journey to provide better care and value for patients.

Dr. River works in a critical access hospital in her hometown in rural Iowa. She also does locums emergency medicine at a community hospital in Oregon and practices emergency medicine at a public government hospital in Guam. She has previously been the owner and medical director of a private cannabis medicine clinic and is currently working toward creatively integrating Lifestyle Medicine into her practice. 

Andrea mentions a podcast with Dr. Vinny Arora on The Emergency Mind in which they discuss many myths and limiting beliefs around sleep deprivation in medicine. It's episode 51 available. Here's the link on Apple or Spotify.

River mentions how much the previous episodes on this podcast with Drs. Paasch and Barrett (Season 2, episode 5 and 6 from Dec 13 and 20, 2022) resonated with her, specifically the term "medical, industrial complex." Which is the term they used to describe big healthcare and how it dehumanizes patients and providers.

Andrea discusses the book It Takes 5 to Tango, which discusses how to align the interests of patients, providers, pharma, policy, and payors. Andrea and River discuss that there are many opportunities to make working conditions better for doctors and ultimately take better care of patients.
MicroSkills is built on one core, easy-to-learn principle: every big goal, complicated task, healthy habit, and, yes, even what we think of as character traits, can be broken down into small, learnable, skills that can be practiced, and incorporated real-time. Pre-order wherever you buy your books or on Amazon; launches Apr 16.
Support the show
Connect with Andrea on Instagram (@revitalizingdoc) or LinkedIn about the show and more, or visit her website www.andreaaustinmd.com. Sign up for her newsletter, “Revitalizing Healthcare.” It is your go-to source for insightful content on transforming the healthcare landscape and staying well while changemaking. Join this list to keep up to date on the launch of her forthcoming book, Revitalized: A guidebook to rediscovering your heartline. This book provides a beacon for channeling emotional intelligence not only to survive but thrive in medicine.

In this podcast episode, Dr. Amanda River, uses her unique perspective to challenge the medical industrial complex and describes her journey to provide better care and value for patients.

Dr. River works in a critical access hospital in her hometown in rural Iowa. She also does locums emergency medicine at a community hospital in Oregon and practices emergency medicine at a public government hospital in Guam. She has previously been the owner and medical director of a private cannabis medicine clinic and is currently working toward creatively integrating Lifestyle Medicine into her practice. 

Andrea mentions a podcast with Dr. Vinny Arora on The Emergency Mind in which they discuss many myths and limiting beliefs around sleep deprivation in medicine. It's episode 51 available. Here's the link on Apple or Spotify.

River mentions how much the previous episodes on this podcast with Drs. Paasch and Barrett (Season 2, episode 5 and 6 from Dec 13 and 20, 2022) resonated with her, specifically the term "medical, industrial complex." Which is the term they used to describe big healthcare and how it dehumanizes patients and providers.

Andrea discusses the book It Takes 5 to Tango, which discusses how to align the interests of patients, providers, pharma, policy, and payors. Andrea and River discuss that there are many opportunities to make working conditions better for doctors and ultimately take better care of patients.
MicroSkills is built on one core, easy-to-learn principle: every big goal, complicated task, healthy habit, and, yes, even what we think of as character traits, can be broken down into small, learnable, skills that can be practiced, and incorporated real-time. Pre-order wherever you buy your books or on Amazon; launches Apr 16.
Support the show
Connect with Andrea on Instagram (@revitalizingdoc) or LinkedIn about the show and more, or visit her website www.andreaaustinmd.com. Sign up for her newsletter, “Revitalizing Healthcare.” It is your go-to source for insightful content on transforming the healthcare landscape and staying well while changemaking. Join this list to keep up to date on the launch of her forthcoming book, Revitalized: A guidebook to rediscovering your heartline. This book provides a beacon for channeling emotional intelligence not only to survive but thrive in medicine.

41 min