Training health communicators - my chat on the Doctor's Lounge

Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD

06 Aug 2025 — 1 min read

Yesterday I joined one of my friends (and mentor!) Dr. Jeremy Faust on his show The Doctor's Lounge – we chatted about health communication, my new NEJM article on the need to integrate communications training into medical and graduate schools, and why health communication is so challenging right now.

Watch the full chat over on his excellent newsletter Inside Medicine (or if you don't have time, he has conveniently provided an AI-assisted summary of our conversation). Check it out:

Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD, is completing a combined emergency medicine residency and research fellowship focusing on health literacy and communication. In her free time, she is the creator of the medical blog You Can Know Things, available on Substack and youcanknowthings.com. You can also find her on Instagram and Threads. Views expressed belong to KP, not her employer.

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