Patricia Rush - Getting to the Root Causes of Suffering

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Mental Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 10 July 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Patricia Rush, M.D., M.B.A. is an internal medicine physician whose scientific focus is complex chronic illness. Her over 40-year career has focused on working with underserved populations and promoting universal access to high-quality medical care. She spent 20 years in the Cook County (Illinois) Health System, including six years as director of their emergency department. From 2000-2008 ran a trauma-informed solo private medical practice in Chicago.

During this time, she completed in-depth interviews with more than 500 patients, which led her to identify a group of high-risk individuals with serious illnesses who also had a consistent pattern of extreme stress at a young age, including profoundly disordered sleep and emotional distress.

Until her retirement, Dr. Rush was also an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago and now teaches neurodevelopment as a member of the Physician Workgroup of the Child Trauma Academy.

She was a co-founder and serves as a co-director of the Center for the Collaborative Study of Trauma, Health Equity, and Neurobiology, or THEN, in Chicago. The nonprofit works at the intersection of science education and social justice, exploring and communicating the links between early emotional trauma, inequality, human development, and chronic illness to a network of professionals and the public.

In this interview, she discusses a new and more integrated way to understand and treat physical and mental ailments in people of all ages that has important implications for how we raise our children.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice.
0:12.0	Welcome to the Mad and the Family Podcast. I'm Miranda Spencer. Today's guest is going to discuss a new and more integrated way to understand and
0:22.7	treat physical and mental ailments that has important implications for how we raise our children.
0:28.3	We're talking with Dr. Patricia Rush, a co-founder of the Center for the Collaborative Study of Trauma,
0:33.8	Health Equity, and Neurobiology, or Then. As the name suggests, this nonprofit works at the
0:39.9	intersection of science education and social justice, exploring and communicating the links
0:45.3	between early emotional trauma, inequality, human development, and chronic illness.
0:51.3	Patricia Rush, MD, MBA, is an internal medicine physician whose over 40-year career has
0:57.3	focused on working with underserved populations and promoting universal access to high-quality
1:02.4	medical care.
1:04.0	Dr. Rush spent 20 years in the Cook County, Illinois health system, including six years as
1:08.6	director of their emergency department, and ran a solo private
1:12.1	practice from 2000 to 2008. Until her retirement, she was also an associate professor of medicine
1:18.9	at the University of Chicago and now serves in the physician work group at the Child Trauma
1:24.5	Academy, where she teaches neurodevelopment.
1:29.0	Welcome, Patricia Rush.
1:30.4	Thank you.
1:35.3	What are some of the issues and problems with conventional medical care in America that led you and your colleagues to start the center?
1:38.2	Thank you very much for having me today.
1:41.5	Four of us, healthcare workers from Chicago Chicago started the then center in 2017. We had worked in
1:51.8	conventional medical health care for over 40 years in Chicago and saw several problems that we did not think we're going to be addressed.
2:04.5	We were interested in promoting a patient-centered approach to medical care and also focusing on how the
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