How to Be Patient

Dr. Preston Roche, Dr. Margaret Duncan

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Booking Overview

A psychiatry-focused show about patient care and mental health nuance, hosted by two clinician-content creators who also use humor along the way. It’s a strong booking lane for experts in psychiatry, psychotherapy/clinical practice, and mental health education who can translate concepts into patient-centered insight.

Metrics

Episodes: 70

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 49.5k subscribers

Instagram: 4.2k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Dr. Preston Roche - Psychiatry Resident & Digital Influencer who co-hosts the weekly show “How to Be Patient,” focusing on better understanding patients and mental health struggles beyond the clinic.

Dr. Margaret Duncan - Psychiatrist & Content Creator who co-hosts “How to Be Patient,” helping explore evolving patient care paths and perspectives with nuance and empathy.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Clinicians (e.g., residents/psychiatrists), clinical researchers, or established subject-matter experts in mental health, psychiatry, and related therapeutic domains; occasionally allied clinicians with deep domain expertise (e.g., fitness/bodybuilding and medication/substance impacts).
Required Achievements:  
Clinical training or practice in psychiatry/mental health, Subject-matter experience translating clinical concepts to lay audiences via content or public education, Domain expertise in a specialty overlap (e.g., attachment theory/child psychiatry; substance/fitness–psychiatry intersection)

Recent Guest Discussions

@undercoverdoc - Anabolic Steroid Use In Psychiatric Disorders; Prevalence; Impact/what It Can Look Like; Fitness Culture/bodybuilding Observations.

Recent Topics

Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Mental Health, Patient Care, Diagnosis

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
How to Be Patient
:

THROWBACK: Motivational Interviewing (Season 1 Episode 8)

June 29, 2026

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,...

Missed Diagnoses in History: Story Time: Charles VI and Mary Todd Lincoln

June 22, 2026

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! Join Patreon Here: https://www.patreon.com/c/howtobepatient...

THROWBACK: Attachment Theory, just hanging in there (Season 1 Episode 2)

June 15, 2026

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 ba...

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