Adam Stern, COMMITTED: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training
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Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 4 February 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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"The more that I achieve, the more I realize that achievements have nothing to do with the value of who you are as a person." Psychiatrist, professor, and writer Adam Stern joins Zibby to talk about his debut memoir, Committed, which combines his medical experience with the story of his cancer diagnosis. The two discuss when Adam realized he had a story that has yet to be told, how psychiatrists approach mental illnesses in their personal lives, and what he's learned from living with 50/50 survival odds.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
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| 0:40.9 | Adam Stern, MD is a psychiatrist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an assistant |
| 0:46.8 | professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He has written extensively about his |
| 0:50.9 | experiences of physician, including in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, |
| 0:54.7 | the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, |
| 0:58.7 | and the American Journal of Psychiatry. He lives with his family near Boston. |
| 1:02.4 | Welcome, Adam. Thank you so much for coming on moms, don't have time to read books, to discuss |
| 1:06.2 | committed dispatches from a psychiatrist in training. It's so great to connect with you. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:11.8 | No, this is such a pleasure. |
| 1:13.1 | I sort of eagerly dove into this book. |
| 1:15.6 | I'm so interested in psychology, psychiatry, and I actually worked on an inpatient unit once myself in the psychiatric unit in Westchester. |
| 1:23.8 | Anyway, so I came into it with like super excitement and interest and was just like devouring it. |
| 1:30.4 | So thank you for this fantastic read and sort of insight into not only you, but what it's like to be in a residency program and on all of that. |
| 1:40.4 | So anyway, I really enjoyed it. |
| 1:41.8 | Why don't you tell listeners a little bit about why you decided to write this book and the time period it covered and all of that. So anyway, I really enjoyed it. Why don't you tell listeners a little bit about why you |
| 1:44.6 | decided to write this book and the time period it covered and all of that. Sure thing. Yeah. So |
| 1:49.3 | I've always wanted to be a writer. I've always written, I suppose it's a little bit hard to know |
| 1:54.8 | what defines a writer versus someone who writes and nobody reads their stuff or very few read |
| 2:00.3 | their stuff. So I've been writing |
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