Podcast: How should doctors speak and listen to patients when discussing opioid reductions?

In a new “On Becoming a Healer” podcast episode, Dr. Stefan Kertesz speaks with Dr. Saul Weiner about the risk of suicide with opioid reduction, and how that should affect the patient-doctor relationship. The episode summarizes a controversial new study, and then focuses on how the power dynamic between doctors and patients affects the way they speak with each other. On Becoming a Healer streams on podcast platforms like Apple & Spotify and also at this webpage.

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