Anthropology and Medicine from the Bottom Up (with Dr. Eric Reinhart)

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Medicine, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Philosophy

5 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

We are joined in this episode by Dr. Eric Reinhart, an anthropologist, psychoanalyst, and psychiatry resident at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. While Dr. Reinhart is the first resident-in-training we've had on this program, his path has been far from straightforward. Prior to residency, Dr. Reinhart conducted ethnographic work in Chicago's South Side, India, South Africa, and migrant communities in Southern Europe. Through this research, he addresses the multifaceted effects of poverty and social inequities on community health. In this conversation, we discuss how he applies his anthropology training to create culturally sensitive systemic changes and how healthcare providers can play a more active role in engaging with their communities.

In this episode, you will hear about:

How having a deaf brother led Dr. Reinhart to medicine - 1:54
Dr. Reinhart’s observations of the disconnect between the ideals he heard in medical school and the reality of how profit-driven hospitals operate - 5:59
Why Dr. Reinhart pursued a study in anthropology to learn how to address contemporary social ills - 12:46
How a case study of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Russian prisons informed Dr. Reinhart’s evaluation of pandemics - 19:37
What drew Dr. Reinhart to psychoanalysis and psychiatry, and how he applies them to his field studies - 26:41
A discussion of the power structures inherent to medico-social field work and how to properly determine what a community needs - 32:04
Advice on how doctors and medical trainees can become empowered to help change the systems they work in - 41:21
How Dr. Reinhart hopes to apply his experiences to improve community-based care - 48:42

You can follow Dr. Eric Reinhart on Twitter @_Eric_Reinhart.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Henry Bear.
0:03.4	And I'm Tyler Johnson.
0:04.8	And you're listening to the Doctors' Art, a podcast that explores meaning in medicine.
0:09.9	Throughout our medical training and career, we have pondered, what makes medicine meaningful?
0:15.2	Can a stronger understanding of this meaning create better doctors?
0:18.8	How can we build healthcare institutions that nurture the doctor-patient connection?
0:23.2	What can we learn about the human condition from accompanying our patients in times of suffering?
0:28.0	In seeking answers to these questions, we meet with deep thinkers working across healthcare,
0:33.1	from doctors and nurses to patients and healthcare executives, those who have collected a career's worth of harder and wisdom.
0:40.2	Proving the moral heart that beats at the core of medicine, we will hear stories that are by turns heartbreaking,
0:45.6	amusing, inspiring, challenging, and enlightening.
0:49.3	We welcome anyone curious about why doctors do what they do.
0:52.8	Join us as we think out loud about what illness and healing can teach us about some of life's biggest questions.
1:03.3	We are joined in this episode by Dr. Eric Reinhart, an anthropologist, psychoanalyst, and psychiatry resident at Northwestern University.
1:11.9	Dr. Reinhart is, in fact, the first resident in training we've had on this program.
1:17.1	But as you'll soon hear, his path has been far from straightforward.
1:20.9	Prior to residency, Dr. Reinhart conducted ethnographic work on Chicago, Southside, India, South Africa,
1:28.0	and migrant communities in Southern Europe.
1:30.5	Through this research, he addresses the multifaceted effects of poverty and social inequities on community health.
1:37.3	In his conversation, we discuss how he applies his anthropology training to create culturally sensitive systemic changes
1:44.4	and how healthcare providers can play a more active role in engaging with their communities.
1:49.8	Eric, thank you for joining us and welcome to the show.
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