On Becoming a Healer

Saul J. Weiner, MD, Stefan Kertesz, MD, MS

Booking Overview

This physician-led interview podcast examines humane patient care, medical culture, clinician well-being, and the social context of healthcare, featuring doctors, researchers, authors, and healthcare policy leaders as external guests. PR agencies could credibly pitch physician-authors, medical researchers, healthcare reform advocates, and experienced clinicians with distinctive perspectives on patient care or professional ethics; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 79

Frequency: Monthly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000

Listener location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

sauljweiner@gmail.com

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Host

Saul J. Weiner, MD - Physician, author of the book On Becoming a Healer: The Journey from Patient Care to Caring about Your Patients, and co-host focused on the culture and context of clinical practice.

Stefan Kertesz, MD, MS - Physician and co-host focused on medical culture, patient care, clinician well-being, and the systems shaping clinical practice.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Physicians, medical researchers, healthcare policy leaders, and physician-authors with substantial clinical, scholarly, policy, or lived professional expertise and a distinctive perspective on patient care or medical culture.

Required Achievements:

Published books or significant written work, Peer-reviewed research or sustained subject-matter expertise, Leadership of healthcare policy or professional organizations, Extensive clinical experience

Recent Guest Discussions

Diljeet Singh, MD, DrPH - Moral Injury, Moral Courage, Universal Healthcare, Physician Responsibility, And The Business Of Medicine.

Fazlur Rahman - Immigrant Physicians, Compassionate Cancer Care, Rural Healthcare, Physician-patient Relationships, Humility, And Presence In Medicine.

Jeffrey Jackson, MD - Difficult Encounters, Chronic Pain, Personality Disorders, Trust, Physician Self-awareness, And Longitudinal Primary Care Relationships.

Khameer Kidia, MD - Mental Health Diagnosis, Psychiatric Care, Culture, Inequality, Migration, Social Isolation, And The Social And Political Roots Of Psychological Distress.

Recent Topics

Health, Healthcare, Patient Care, Medical Education, Physician Burnout

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

On Becoming a Healer

Moral Injury, Moral Courage, and the Business of Medicine

September 15, 2026

What happens when a healthcare system organized around profit repeatedly gets in the way of doing what is right for patients? Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) calls one consequence moral injury: the distress physicians experience when the system prevents them from providing the care they believe patients need. PNHP president Diljeet Singh, MD, DrPH, joins Stefan and Saul to discuss the organization's recent report on moral injury and the financialization of American medicine. S...

From East Pakistan to West Texas: What One Immigrant Doctor Gave America

August 18, 2026

Fazlur Rahman, a retired oncologist, is the author of The Temple Road, a richly evocative memoir about growing up in what was then East Pakistan, before it became Bangladesh. His second book, Our Connected Lives, chronicles several patients he cared for during his 35 years as a cancer doctor in West Texas – and his relationships with them in the rural region where he was the only oncologist. Fazlur is a gifted writer who became a beloved physician in a community that needed him. Fazlur also...

The Clinician in the Difficult Encounter

July 21, 2026

Most of us who care for patients can remember seeing a name on the schedule and feeling our heart sink. What makes some clinical relationships so difficult? Is it something about the patient—or something about the interaction itself? Dr Jeffrey Jackson has spent more than two decades studying this question. His research has shown that difficult encounters are associated not only with patient characteristics but also with physician factors, including the clinician's approach to psychosocial is...

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