Dr. Eric Bender

What's going on here?

And when I do teach med students, I will...

First of all, ask them, how do you learn best?

Do you want questions?

Do you want, how do you like this?

So I'm trying to meet them and understand them.

And then oftentimes if somebody has a low EQ, it might be because emotions were never okay in their family.

So we got to figure that out.

And when someone actually starts to get in touch with their own emotions, that might open up the door of like,

Whoa, this is really helpful.

Let me go into psychiatry.

Yeah, exactly.

So you've got to figure out what's holding you back.

And actually, that's something I want to touch on in the pilot that I'm writing is what is holding somebody back from that.

It can be heavy.

I think of it a couple ways.

And I was lucky at my med school to give the speech at graduation.

I was voted by my classmates to give a speech and I talked about it.

Then it's such a privilege to sit with patients and to be able to understand them.

And in psychiatry, especially, you're talking to people in their most intimate moments.