Happy July everyone or summer depending on when you're listening to this it is that time of year again.

I'm Dr. Schreichur Betty and I'm Dr. Marissa Locastro and as everyone transitions in a new role or thinks about the new year, maybe in the same role, we've been thinking a lot about micro skills. These are small actions that can have a pretty big impact.

And Shreya, honestly, I think these are micro skills. that can have a pretty big impact.

And Shreya, honestly, I think these are micro skills that everyone needs to refresh

around from time to time.

Yeah, I agree.

You know, I think when it comes to life micro skills, you really graduate from them you got to learn them and

practice them over and over especially like I find that sometimes they present themselves in

unfamiliar settings and kind of sneak up on you and you're like, wait, I knew that, damn it.

So yeah, I found it really refreshing to hear too.

And in full transparency, the reason why this topic came to mind is because two friends from the EM world

wrote a book about micro skills to navigate the workplace and thriving in medicine

and we just had a lovely interview with them and picked out a select few that really caught our eye.

What I really liked about the book was that each micro-skill started out with a real life

story to draw you in until we ended up picking four stories and micro skills to share.

So without further ado, let's hear from our discussions and the authors.

My name is Dr. Adair Landry.

I'm an emergency medicine physician at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.

I am also a co-founder of a nonprofit called writing in color.org where we teach people of color how to write for free.

I am a health care contributor for Forbes and I'm a mother of three.

Hi everyone, my name's Risa Lewis.

I call myself Dr. Risa E Lewis Lewis and I'm a professor of emergency medicine. My

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