“As leaders, as neighbors, as colleagues, it is time to turn to one another, to engage in the intentional search for human goodness. In our meetings and deliberations, we can reach out and invite in those we have excluded. We can recognize that no one person or leader has the answer, that we need everybody's creativity to find our way through this strange new world.”

- Margaret Wheatley. [Remembering Human Goodness, Shambala Sun, September 1999]

Trust is a two-way street. Each healthcare servant has the family trust and cooperation at stake. Lack of trust creates inconsistency in the delivery of care and influences patient family choices.

Episode one we will explore how medical ethics influences trust as well as govern patient and family rights; and to what extent does multicultural competency influence organizational approaches toward a more dynamic and inclusive culture. We will also seek to understand the underlying factors which erode trust and how to transform these dynamics at their inception and from breakdowns to breakthroughs.

Show Topics and Highlights

I take care of people, I have the luxury of taking care of people over time and having a longitudinal relationship with them. And I see trust is at the center and at the heart of, of what I do and my connection with patients. Without trust, we don't have a functioning robust therapeutic relationship without trust.

How do you know what's meaningful to a patient? You ask them.

How do you look at someone in your space and say, what's important to them? Well, one of the things that's that shows that you're important is that you have some people in the space that look like you, and that can understand you.

Trust is something you have to behave your way into.

And I and I think that that that's a part of the work around multicultural competency is being able to learn how to listen, learn how to understand.

There's a lot of things that go into the trust factor. So so one of the things I would say is basically expand your relationships, expand your relationships in the community, with trusted members of the community, and that those are relationships that you have prior to when you have to pick up the phone.

The teaching that I focus on clinical ethics, bioethics is a huge field and there's many subfields clinical ethics is one of them. There's research ethics, we've been talking about research ethics, a little bit with the Tuskegee and there's many other examples of terrible transgressions in the 20th century with research ethics, there's global ethics, food ethics, public health ethics, which has been in front and center during the pandemic. So lots of major subfields. I do most of my teaching in the area of clinical ethics because I'm teaching medical students and residents who are interacting with patients and family members.

If you had to pick one, innovation in the history of medicine that has been most effective, it's been the development of vaccines, and look at how we've all benefited from not having small polio or childhood diseases.

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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