In this episode of Medic Mindset podcast, Host Ginger Locke welcomes Emergency Medicine Physician, EMS Educator, Prodigy EMS Medical Director and data guru, Maia Dorsett, MD, PhD.
In the series, “Reading,” Locke asks EMS visionaries about the books they recommend to new medics, the books they send to their colleagues and the books they keep coming back to, time and time again.
In this episode, Dr. Dorsett and Locke discuss:
- Creating positive educational environments
- Dynamics of successful, nurturing cultures
- What you can do as a leader to create a positive culture
- Creating psychological safety in the EMS environment
It’s a deep dive for the medics who “feel, reflect and are infinitely curious,” Locke notes.
NOTABLE QUOTES
On Idea collecting: “A lot of the analogies and things that I use and think about the way I teach and practice, etc., come from books that I’ve read.”
On human relationships: “The most useful books that I’ve read from the perspective of practicing medicine are non-medical books.”
On understanding patients: “Really as healthcare clinicians – and EMS is part of that – our goal is to navigate people through decisions in a way that aligns with their values, but if we don’t know what their values are, if we don’t know what’s most important to them, then we’re navigating according to our beacon, or what standard of care beacon there is, not theirs.”
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Books Maia Dorsett mentions:
- The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle
- Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
- Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington
- Essentialism by Greg McKeown
- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
- Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
Books Ginger Locke mentions:
- Complications by Atul Gawande
- Stiff by Mary Roach
- Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales
- Brene Brown’s Netflix Special: The Call to Courage
