Ashley McMullen

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The Nocturnists · Authentically Me with Ashley McMullen, MD · 30 Nov 2021 podcast

So a lot of folks in medicine.

But also a lot of folks outside of medicine who have been patients before or have had other interactions with the healthcare field, whether it's staff or administrators, messages from people on Twitter who follow, and I've been able to look at some of the data of folks who are downloading the episodes and I see folks from Australia, India, like places around the world and

It's a a humbling reminder again how

Stories speak to humanity.

These are the stories of human beings.

Doing the work of reflecting on my own story and recognizing what narrative I'm bringing into the room was really important.

And being able to recognize that everybody has a story.

And how do we interact and extract that story in our patient encounters?

One of the benefits of being at the VA is I do feel like I have a little bit more time with my veterans.

And, you know, it's a it's a very unique population.

These are folks who have served their country and in that process have endured a lot of deep

personal wounds and triumph and pride and also struggles on the back end.

And so how do we capture that in the standard clinical visits?

It's hard to do in the twenty to thirty minutes that were allotted.

But I try to really bake that into that space and so

we're taught sometimes to condense the social history in terms of social or health related behaviors.

And I've tried to take that opportunity to really leave it open ended and ask questions like, Tell me your story or what's something important that

You think I should know about you?

And often I'll ask my veterans to tell me what are things that bring you joy in this life?

And um

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