Resa Lewiss MD

And part of it is I've always felt that the more you know about all different areas, the better it actually makes you as a physician and as a professional. And one example I'll give is in university, I actually concentrated my studies in sociology and in ethno-racial studies. And simultaneously, I was completing my pre-medical courses.

And part of it is I've always felt that the more you know about all different areas, the better it actually makes you as a physician and as a professional. And one example I'll give is in university, I actually concentrated my studies in sociology and in ethno-racial studies. And simultaneously, I was completing my pre-medical courses.

And I knew that would make me an even better, more understanding, more empathetic person. physician to knowing that people come to the emergency department at the end of the day sick is sick everybody wants food shelter clothing education and to feel good and healthy to function in society and in their lives and if i have a sense of someone whose first language is not english

And I knew that would make me an even better, more understanding, more empathetic person. physician to knowing that people come to the emergency department at the end of the day sick is sick everybody wants food shelter clothing education and to feel good and healthy to function in society and in their lives and if i have a sense of someone whose first language is not english

Someone who lives in a city versus someone who lives rural. Someone who is elderly versus an elementary school child. Like having that sense of groups and even the way people came to the U.S. and how people have moved in terms of socioeconomic status within the U.S. Those types of factors help me provide value.

Someone who lives in a city versus someone who lives rural. Someone who is elderly versus an elementary school child. Like having that sense of groups and even the way people came to the U.S. and how people have moved in terms of socioeconomic status within the U.S. Those types of factors help me provide value.

better patient-centered care because I'll have an understanding, never assuming that I completely ever understand someone else's experience or have had that experience myself. I've always felt the responsibility is me to educate myself. So educating oneself also takes the form of reading books, all kinds of books, fiction, nonfiction, and also writing.

better patient-centered care because I'll have an understanding, never assuming that I completely ever understand someone else's experience or have had that experience myself. I've always felt the responsibility is me to educate myself. So educating oneself also takes the form of reading books, all kinds of books, fiction, nonfiction, and also writing.

I've always believed in the power of communication. And I always thought that Verbal speaking was more my strong suit in terms of communication. However, when you're at a teaching hospital, there's an expectation that you write. So my first ventures into writing were writing scientific and medical papers.

I've always believed in the power of communication. And I always thought that Verbal speaking was more my strong suit in terms of communication. However, when you're at a teaching hospital, there's an expectation that you write. So my first ventures into writing were writing scientific and medical papers.

So I have a whole sort of period where I was only writing for medical and scientific journals. This concept of writing for non-medical, non-science audiences came as I started being exposed to other mostly physicians who were doing the same.

So I have a whole sort of period where I was only writing for medical and scientific journals. This concept of writing for non-medical, non-science audiences came as I started being exposed to other mostly physicians who were doing the same.

Realizing that our opinion matters, our voice matters, and if we're coming from an informed, educated place to talk about science, to talk about medicine, healthcare, etc., that it is helpful for us to speak up in this way, and speaking can mean writing.

Realizing that our opinion matters, our voice matters, and if we're coming from an informed, educated place to talk about science, to talk about medicine, healthcare, etc., that it is helpful for us to speak up in this way, and speaking can mean writing.

I was very into reading, for example, leadership books, people management books, communication books, and like the articles that are published in, for example, Harvard Business Review or Fast Company. Because I think people don't realize healthcare is an industry. It's a company. These are organizations just like all the others. We think they're different, but they're not.

I was very into reading, for example, leadership books, people management books, communication books, and like the articles that are published in, for example, Harvard Business Review or Fast Company. Because I think people don't realize healthcare is an industry. It's a company. These are organizations just like all the others. We think they're different, but they're not.

And so I found many of those articles relevant to my own experience. And flipping it 180, I realized that what I was seeing in healthcare and in medicine and my own experience of navigating the workplace, it can be...

And so I found many of those articles relevant to my own experience. And flipping it 180, I realized that what I was seeing in healthcare and in medicine and my own experience of navigating the workplace, it can be...

relevant generalizable and helpful to others in other fields as well i started writing articles some were with other authors some were alone some were with my co-author with whom i wrote the book and these articles really did well people are like wow i'm really glad you wrote that article i'm going to share it with my mentees or there would be these secrets of the workplace that they weren't really secrets but no one talked about and one example is

relevant generalizable and helpful to others in other fields as well i started writing articles some were with other authors some were alone some were with my co-author with whom i wrote the book and these articles really did well people are like wow i'm really glad you wrote that article i'm going to share it with my mentees or there would be these secrets of the workplace that they weren't really secrets but no one talked about and one example is