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The EthnoMed Podcast
Dr. Duncan Reid, MD @ EthnoMed.org
31 episodes
5 days ago
Send us a text "The medical system we have is very oppressive in this country. It doesn't primarily value humanity and the human experience and the health of human beings." In Part 2 of our conversation with family physician Dr. Anuj Khattar, the idealism we traced in Part 1 collides with the realities of the American healthcare system. This episode isn't comfortable—it's not meant to be. Dr. Khattar walks us through what happens when a values-driven physician enters a system designed around ...
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Send us a text "The medical system we have is very oppressive in this country. It doesn't primarily value humanity and the human experience and the health of human beings." In Part 2 of our conversation with family physician Dr. Anuj Khattar, the idealism we traced in Part 1 collides with the realities of the American healthcare system. This episode isn't comfortable—it's not meant to be. Dr. Khattar walks us through what happens when a values-driven physician enters a system designed around ...
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Episodes (20/31)
The EthnoMed Podcast
Provider Pulse Ep. 30: Dr. Anuj Khattar, MD (Part 2) - Medicine, Burnout, and Finding Balance
Send us a text "The medical system we have is very oppressive in this country. It doesn't primarily value humanity and the human experience and the health of human beings." In Part 2 of our conversation with family physician Dr. Anuj Khattar, the idealism we traced in Part 1 collides with the realities of the American healthcare system. This episode isn't comfortable—it's not meant to be. Dr. Khattar walks us through what happens when a values-driven physician enters a system designed around ...
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5 days ago
31 minutes

The EthnoMed Podcast
Provider Pulse Ep. 29: Dr. Anuj Khattar, MD (Part 1) - The Making of a Community Doctor
Send us a text What happens when an idealistic pre-med student becomes a physician and discovers the healthcare system isn't quite what they expected? In this first part of our conversation with Dr. Anuj Khattar, we trace the path from a diverse San Jose childhood to six different healthcare jobs across Seattle. Dr. Khattar currently works as medical director at Cedar River Clinics, teaches at Swedish Family Medicine and ICHS, provides care at Planned Parenthood, runs a ketamine-assisted ther...
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2 weeks ago
31 minutes

The EthnoMed Podcast
Provider Pulse Ep. 28: Bayle Conrad, MPH (Part 2) - Finding Agency in the Work
Send us a text After her crisis of conscience in Kenya, Bayle Conrad made a decision: no more international work. But finding her place in global health wasn't that simple. In this second part of our conversation, Bayle returns to Seattle with an MPH degree and more questions than answers. She turns down international jobs she's qualified for, takes a microfinance position that still involves those same power dynamics, and eventually stumbles into refugee resettlement work at the Internationa...
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3 weeks ago
39 minutes

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Provider Pulse Ep. 27: Bayle Conrad, MPH (Part 1) - The Voyeurism of Global Health
Send us a text What's the difference between helping and voyeurism? Between witnessing and exploiting? These are the uncomfortable questions that nearly made Bayle Conrad quit her Master of Public Health program. In this first part of our two-part conversation, Bayle takes us from her childhood in Spokane—struggling with debilitating anxiety that made her hyper-aware of power and agency—through her undergraduate years at the University of Washington, where she learned to view global health th...
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1 month ago
44 minutes

The EthnoMed Podcast
Provider Pulse Ep. 26: Which Hard to Choose - Dr. Angelo Cabal and Finding Authenticity on the Path to Medicine (Part 2)
Send us a text Part 2: "Which Hard to Choose" (Part 2 of 2) What happens when you do everything “right” and still don’t get in? When two full application cycles pass with no interviews? When you abandoned a degree program only to face rejection? In part two of this Provider Pulse episode, Dr. Angelo Cabal picks up his story in Chicago, where a hard truth and a single conversation with his mentor push him to walk away from an MPH program and start over. Back home in San Diego, Angelo studies f...
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1 month ago
24 minutes

The EthnoMed Podcast
Provider Pulse Ep. 25: Which Hard to Choose - Dr. Angelo Cabal and Finding Authenticity on the Path to Medicine (Part 1)
Send us a text Part 1: "Which Hard to Choose" (Part 1 of 2) What does it take to become a doctor when you don't fit the mold? When you've never met a physician, when your high school gets overwhelmed by budget cuts, when you're the first in your family to navigate the American education system? In Part 1 of Angelo Cabal's story, we follow his journey from a flooded house in Manila to a pediatric ICU in San Diego, through underfunded Southeast San Diego schools to the culture shock of UC Berk...
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1 month ago
26 minutes

The EthnoMed Podcast
Provider Pulse Ep. 24: From Siberia to Harborview - Yuliya Speroff and the Art of Medical Interpreting (Part 2)
Send us a text In Part 2 of our conversation with Yuliya Speroff, Medical Interpreter Supervisor at Harborview Medical Center, we further explore the profound human work of medical interpretation. Yuliya pulls back the curtain on what interpreters witness every day—the cultural gaps, missed cues, unintended misunderstandings, and the invisible labor that makes cross-linguistic care possible. We discuss the delicate balance interpreters in maintaining objectivity and accuracy while also acting...
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1 month ago
42 minutes

The EthnoMed Podcast
Provider Pulse Episode 23: From Siberia to Harborview - Yuliya Speroff and the Art of Medical Interpreting (Part 1)
Send us a text Medical interpreter and educator Yuliya Speroff traces her path from a book-filled childhood in Siberia to high-stakes conversations in Seattle hospitals. She explains how medical interpreting in the U.S. often falls to interpreters juggling work for many different fields, how vicarious trauma can affect medical interpreters, and what it means to convey emotion faithfully—without theatrics. Along the way: a rare moment of acknowledgment that stayed with her, the car...
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2 months ago
32 minutes

The EthnoMed Podcast
Provider Pulse Ep. 22: Crossing to Privilege - What Global Health Taught Tra Tran About Power
Send us a text Raised by Vietnamese parents who survived war, Tra Tran grew up believing that everything would be okay—but learning what that really means took her from New Mexico to the global stage and back again. She shares how generational resilience, privilege, and honesty shaped her work in refugee advocacy and self-discovery. In this conversation, she reflects on privilege, burnout, and rediscovering meaning through community-based advocacy with refugees in North Carolina through...
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2 months ago
23 minutes

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Provider Pulse Ep. 21: Mentorship as Legacy: Dr. Bukola Salami
Send us a text From a teenager navigating a new life in Toronto to becoming Canada’s first African woman to hold a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in the health sciences, Dr. Bukola Salami’s story is one of resilience, representation, and the transformative power of mentorship. In this episode, Dr. Salami joins host Dr. Duncan Reid to discuss her migration from Nigeria, how a high-school mentorship program changed her life, and the responsibility of mentoring the next generation. Her reflectio...
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2 months ago
21 minutes

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Provider Pulse Ep. 20: Crossing Oceans, Building Trust: Franky Erra and the Marshallese Community
Send us a text Franky Erra grew up on Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands—an archipelago shaped by ocean, community, and a deep history of resilience. In this episode, Franky traces his path from a close-knit childhood surrounded by family and coral lagoons to his current role as a Disease Research and Intervention Specialist with Public Health – Seattle & King County TB Program. Through his story, we explore the Marshallese experience in America—from the legacy of U.S. nuclear te...
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2 months ago
34 minutes

The EthnoMed Podcast
Provider Pulse Ep. 19: From Phnom Penh to Harborview - The Journey of Jeniffer Huong
Send us a text In this moving episode of the Provider Pulse Series of the EthnoMed podcast, we hear the extraordinary life story of Jeniffer Huong — one of Harborview’s original Cultural Care Mediators in the Community House Calls Program, which now serves patients in eight different languages. Born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Jeniffer’s early years were shaped by discipline, education, and family aspiration—until the Khmer Rouge forced her family from their home in 1975. She survived years of d...
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2 months ago
47 minutes

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Provider Pulse Ep. 18: Brandon Gim, RN - Finding your Why
Send us a text What does it really mean to find your why in medicine? In this episode, registered nurse Brandon Gim joins the EthnoMed Podcast Provider Pulse series to share his nonlinear journey—from growing up in a Korean immigrant family in South King County to finding meaning in community health and mentorship at Harborview. Brandon reflects on the pressures of expectation, the role of self-doubt, and how authentic mentorship helped him rediscover purpose in care. Together, we explore wha...
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3 months ago
48 minutes

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Provider Pulse Ep. 17: Kenn Arning - 47 years as Harborview's Postal Detective and Community Builder
Send us a text This episode of Provider Pulse goes beyond clinical roles and takes you behind the scenes with Kenn Arning, Harborview’s longtime mail clerk and self-described ‘postal detective.’ For more than four decades, Kenn has sorted 5,000 pieces of mail a day, tracked down misdirected packages, and built connections across every department in the hospital. Kenn shares how his Quaker education, global travels, and passion for learning about people and the places they are from shaped his ...
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3 months ago
43 minutes

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Provider Pulse Ep. 16: Stories that Heal - Jefferson Nguyen on Listening, Resilience, and Becoming a Doctor
Send us a text In this episode of the Provider Pulse Series, Dr. Duncan Reid sits down with Jefferson Nguyen, medical student at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Growing up in South Seattle as the son of Vietnamese refugees, Jefferson Nguyen never imagined that his path to medicine would be a straight line — because it wasn’t. In this candid conversation, Jefferson shares how a community health clinic shaped his early view of medicine, how he wrestled with identity and belongi...
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3 months ago
48 minutes

The EthnoMed Podcast
Provider Pulse Ep. 15: Dr. Ethan Hua on Mentorship, Medicine, and the Importance of Narrative
Send us a text In this episode ofProvider Pulse, Dr. Duncan Reid sits down with Dr. Ethan Hua, faculty in Interventional Radiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Hua shares his journey from growing up as the child of Vietnamese and Chinese immigrants in Southern California to finding his way into medicine — a path that included an unexpected pivot from marine biology, a difficult first round of medical school applications, and eventually discovering interventional rad...
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3 months ago
58 minutes

The EthnoMed Podcast
Provider Pulse Ep. 14 (2): In the Shadow of War, Toward the Light of Opportunity: Daniella Runyambo's Story (Part 2)
Send us a text We continue our Provider Pulse interview series where we elevate diverse voices from across healthcare fields to hear the paths people took to their current roles and how their life experiences shape the care they provide. In the second part of this two-part episode, we continue our conversation with Daniella Runyambo, co-executive director of Programs and Community Impact at the Refugee Community Partnership, we follow her journey into adulthood. Daniella reflects on her colle...
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4 months ago
46 minutes

The EthnoMed Podcast
Provider Pulse Ep. 14: In the Shadow of War, Toward the Light of Opportunity: Daniella Runyambo's Story (Part 1)
Send us a text We continue our Provider Pulse interview series where we elevate diverse voices from across healthcare fields to hear the paths people took to their current roles and how their life experiences shape the care they provide. In the first part of this two-part episode, we speak with Daniella Runyambo, Co-Executive Director of Programs and Community Impact at the Refugee Community Partnership in North Carolina. Daniella takes us back to her childhood in the Democratic Republic of C...
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4 months ago
37 minutes

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Provider Pulse Ep. 13: Between Worlds - How Identity Shaped a Nurse's Path with Alexandria Braithwaite, RN
Send us a text We continue our Provider Pulse interview series where we elevate diverse voices from across healthcare fields to hear the paths people took to their current roles and how their life experiences shape the care they provide. In this episode, we speak with Alexandria Braithwaite,RN a nurse at the International Medicine Clinic. Alexandria shares her remarkable journey—growing up between cultures, moving frequently as a child, navigating code-switching from an early age, and e...
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4 months ago
44 minutes

The EthnoMed Podcast
Provider Pulse Ep. 12: From Kuala Lumpur to Medical School - Chelsea Ng on Mentorship and Resilience
Send us a text In this episode of Provider Pulse, we continue our mission to elevate diverse voices from across healthcare, exploring the unique paths people take to their current roles. Our guest is Chelsea Ng, an incoming first year medical student whose path to medicine has taken her from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and Seattle. Chelsea reflects on the challenges of adapting to new cultures and classrooms, the doubts and homesickness she faced as an international college student, and the resi...
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4 months ago
42 minutes

The EthnoMed Podcast
Send us a text "The medical system we have is very oppressive in this country. It doesn't primarily value humanity and the human experience and the health of human beings." In Part 2 of our conversation with family physician Dr. Anuj Khattar, the idealism we traced in Part 1 collides with the realities of the American healthcare system. This episode isn't comfortable—it's not meant to be. Dr. Khattar walks us through what happens when a values-driven physician enters a system designed around ...