The Top 5 Episodes of 2024

10 Minutes to Better Patient Communication

Year end countdown time! Here’s our Top 5 Most Popular Episodes from 2024, as determined by you!

Here we are! It’s the end of the year, and what I get to do now is count down for you the top five episodes as judged by you, this year 2024, from health communication partners. Hi everybody, I’m Dr. Anne Marie Liebel and this is 10 Minutes to Better Patient Communication from Health Communication Partners. Yes, this year we got ranked number 20 the top 100 podcasts in the Social Sciences by Goodpods. So grateful to you for that. And I’m thankful that you’re with us. I’m thankful that you’re continuing to download. If you haven’t been in touch, please do be in touch. You can find me on LinkedIn. Message me there. You can go to healthcommunicationpartners.com and click on contact. It comes right to me. If you get our newsletter, you can go ahead and reply to that, and that comes to me too.

And I want to give you props for being here. Because just that very fact means that you have an instinct or a sense that the communicating and the educating that you’re doing with patients could be better, and that that betterness is in your hands. That there’s something that we can do about our own language use. About our own educating. And I think it’s fascinating the types of creative thought that can go into our conversations. And this list of top five is a bit a sampling of that too.

And not to get obsessive about it, but I think we’re all in the camp where we know if we do a little bit more work on our on our language use, we can get closer to what we want to be. Closer to what we wish for ourselves to be as practitioners. And this is part of the kind of creative enterprise I invite you into in this show. And I’m so glad that you’re here!

So we’ve got five episodes to countdown, and these are done–I'll tell you how I do this. To keep it fair, what I do is I look at all of the podcast episodes that we’ve dropped throughout the year. And I look at the 30 days from when they were dropped. How many downloads did they get? And these five episodes are the ones that scored the highest. So let’s get to it. We’re gonna go count it down, right!

So number five is an episode called How Reflective Practice Can Help You Improve Your Communication. And I love you because you love reflective practice, and you keep coming back for it, which is why I’m so excited to keep sharing it. This episode is really reflective practice in action.

It was a fun episode to record because I got to tell six different people’s stories, their examples of reflective practice on patient communication. ‘Cause I know sometimes when we hear reflective practice, it can mean a whole lot of different things to people, depending on kind of what you’ve heard before. It can also feel kind of vague, it can feel kind of squishy. Or it could feel kind of like a luxury, like you do it if you have spare time every once in a while. But if you’ve listened to a few episodes of this show, you know we take a very different stance here. We look at reflective practice as a strategy, as an intentionality, a technique, a process, an attitude, a stance. And so do my guests. So I encourage you, if you haven’t heard number five, go ahead and check that out. How Reflective Practice can help you Improve your Communication. Obviously, I’m gonna put a link in the show notes. That’s what this episode is about!

Now, number four. Before I get to number four, this next episode is one of two interview episodes to make the top five. And it’s so inspiring to me to hear from you, and to hear from people who are doing the work, about how they are rolling up their sleeves and doing the work. How they think about doing the work. How they think about how they’re treating people. And my guests are incredibly generous with this storytelling, this conversation that they have with me about conversation that they have with their patients. I find it very inspiring, their kind of opening a door into their process for us. Without getting didactic, without kind of getting up on the big box and making pronouncements about the way it needs to be.

And the number four episode of the most popular this year, is definitely an example of that. It’s from Dr. Jonas Attilus on the Benefits of Taking a Learner’s Role During Patient Interactions. And Dr. Attilus is so careful and so thoughtful and does not take anything for granted. So please check out this episode. I’m kind of shocked at how much he can get us thinking about in the short time that he has in the interview. And you’ll also see why he also made the most popular list three years ago, the last time he was on the show! So he knows what he’s doing. And I’m super glad that he came to the show, and again, kind of gave us a door into his process.

Alright, number three, this episode’s about free stuff, right? It’s a free episode about free things. Which is good, because who doesn’t love free stuff? Number free most popular episode this year was Previewing a Free Maternal Health Course from the Office of Minority Health. This is hilarious because this is a repeat of an episode that I had done before. But maternal health had come up in the news again. So I was like, oh you know what I got to tell people about this course. It still exists out there. It’s from the Office of Minority Health. It’s a free course on providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services in maternal health. So what I did is I took the course, and in this episode I preview it. And then I give you tips on how to get the most out of it. And the course is still up as of you know as of this recording the course is still up there. So go ahead and take it while it’s still out there and still free and if you want a little bit of a preview obviously check out the episode.

The number two most popular episode on health communication partners this year is Reflecting on the Connections between Health Disparities and Communication. Now again if you listened to this show more than once you know this topic as well we spend a lot of time on. I was really surprised that this one made the top five. I mean I’m incredibly surprised it made it to number two. Because I make some kind of subtle points in this one. And I’m beginning to wonder if maybe it was the subtle points that made it more popular? Because maybe we’re a little bit tired of being hit over the head with things that are kind of ham -fisted sometimes.

I think we all know that one size fits all advice only gets us so far. And we all live a lot of our time in situations that are unique. Where there is often some degree of uncertainty. And so in this episode, I share some thoughts on this. And I’d love to hear what you think about it. Again, message me on LinkedIn, visit h-cpartners.com and click on contact, and let me know what you think about this.

And drum roll please. The number one most popular episode of 2024, Health Communication Partners, 10 Minutes Better Patient Communication, is from friend of the show, Dr. Ashley Love, when she visited us to talk about Communication about Mental Health in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander communities. Now, Dr. Love has visited the show before right prior to COVID, or right as COVID was really coming out, I think, Yeah, that’s what it was. Right as COVID was coming out. So it’s been a while since she’s been to the show.

But she came back this past May, which was mental health awareness month and Asian -American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. So I love the fact that Dr. Love gave us this two-fer by combining both of those topics, and talking about both of them. And she and I go way over time because she has so many stories to share. And I’m just in awe of her stories and the breadth of her knowledge. And we also have great time on mic together.

So I’m delighted and so thankful to Dr. Ashley Love for coming to the show, and for making what would become the number one most popular episode on our platform this year 2024, Dr. Ashley Love. So please check out that show.

And I want to end this episode, but also this year with a message of hope. It’s not easy for me to keep hope up, I don’t think any easier than it is for anyone else, even when doing this show. Sometimes, like for this episode, and for many other episodes really, and especially you know in the past like during COVID, I really have to work myself around to get into a hopeful space. And set aside whatever fear or anger or disgust I’m feeling at the time, and get to a hopeful place. And it’s got to be a genuine hopeful place, or else really, why bother? And you’d probably be able to tell anyhow.

And the fact that people all over the world are tuning in to this–this very niche show–along with you and me, that I think is a reason for hope. Because come on folks, this is a very niche program. We are real word-nerding it out here, in very specific ways. So, I think this is encouraging, mostly encouraging, a little bit terrifying to me, but mostly encouraging that you’re here. To know you’re here. Because you’re change agents. You’re here, you’re pushing the envelope. You’re in this. And when I hear from you about what you’re moving toward, you get that this is long-term work.

I’m proud to offer you things to consider, things to try, things to keep in mind while you’re doing the work. And hopefully strengthening what it is that you’re doing. Because we’re all concerned about the future. We’re all still here, doing the work together. Happy holidays. Happy New Year to you. Thank you for being here. I’m Dr. Anne Marie Liebel and this has been 10 Minutes to Better Patient Communication from Health Communication Partners.

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