Episodes

We're pulling a throwback from season two for this one, and it's the episode I will go to the mat for as one of the most clinically useful hours of psychiatry content we've ever put out. Margaret literally calculates QTc off this episode every time she's on call and her CL attending called her out for it the other day, like, "Look at her recalculating." So when she said we should bring this one back, I didn't argue.If you're a resident, an attending who consults psych in the hospital, or a patient or family member trying to understand what it means to live after a cardiac event, start here.

Today we'll talk through this one study from 2010 out of the Oxford Department of Experimental Psychology, "Task-related default mode network modulation and inhibitory control in ADHD: effects of motivation and methylphenidate", that I want to walk you through, because the way it reframed ADHD for me as a resident is one of the more useful brain-flips I've had this year.

We're going back to one of our oldies but besties. This is our motivational interviewing episode from season one, which Margaret and I both agree is probably the best episode we made that whole first run. And it holds up, maybe even better now that we're further along in training and have actually used a lot of these tools in real clinical work.If you're a trainee, an educator, or just someone who's ever tried to gently move a person you love toward a change they keep half-saying they want, start here.

I figured we'd do something I've been wanting to do for a while: story time. Specifically, the kind where I take some of history's most famous figures, walk you through what actually happened to them, and then put on my psychiatry resident hat and try to figure out what we'd actually diagnose them with today.We will be analyzing King of France, Charles VI and Mary Todd Lincoln. Get ready to hear me yap about psychiatric history!

We're doing a throwback! This was our second episode ever, way back when I was at the beginning of fourth year of med school and Margaret and I were still figuring out the rhythm of this whole podcast thing. I'm now at the end of my first year of child fellowship, and somehow attachment theory keeps coming back around no matter what lens I try to look through, existential therapy, child psych, even our death anxiety episode. Pretty much every road leads back to it. So we wanted to bring it back, dust it off, and let y'all hear where we started.

In this episode we are joined by my co-resident, @undercoverdoc who has a special interested in fitness culture and bodybuilding. With the protein intake, food weighing and gym discipline also comes “extracurriculars,” or anabolic steroids. Rob describes his observations being in the fitness space as both an athlete and a physician and we discuss the impact of steroid use, its prevalence and what it can actually look like.