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This week’s guest is Brett Feldman. Brett is the Director and Co-Founder of the Street Medicine Division at Keck School of Medicine of USC.
So material poverty is much easier to solve. It's that long loneliness of homelessness that you never know when it's going to end. And that takes a lot more to fix if it can be fixed.
Radical humility has to do with forgetting ourselves and our own bias. Another thing that's insidious and dangerous is probably burnout. It's all about engagement, radically, whatever it takes. How do you bet against burnout with such exhausting and challenging work?
Benoit: It's hard to uphold hope every single day when you're seeing one of the most vulnerable and painful populations. How do you fight against cynicism?
The barriers to doing street medicine are inherent to them being on the street. The larger barriers are systemic and societal. We are constantly fighting a system that doesn't recognize them as existing. In California we're working towards that. Nothing in the rest of the country is coming close to that.
Street medicine providers have been working with the state of California to connect patients to care providers. Do you have any challenges dealing with insurance issues? Even though we have a long way to go, we've had some wins, collective wins.
Brett Feldman is doing a landscape analysis on street medicine in California.
Do you ever wonder why homelessness is getting worse in America? Do you know what street medicine is? Is there hope in treating homelessness?
This week’s guest is Brett Feldman. Brett is the Director and Co-Founder of the Street Medicine Division at Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Concurrently, Brett also serves as the Vice-Chair of the Street Medicine Institute and is a clinical assistant professor of Family Medicine. His work has been featured in the Washington Post, LA Times, PBS, CNN, and TEDxTalk. He has practiced street medicine in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Los Angeles, California for over 16 years.
With his incredible work, Brett has been awarded the Pennsylvania Society of Physician Assistants Humanitarian of the Year Award, Lehigh valley Healthcare hero Award, and more. Brett has published 2 peer-reviewed articles, which focus on the prevalence of homelessness and can be found on PubMed.
Brett shares some of the most heartwarming stories from his street medicine work providing care to individuals experiencing homelessness.
Expect to learn about Brett's incredible work treating homeless individuals through street medicine, the philosophy of street medicine, why love alone cannot solve homelessness, the most prevalent barriers to treating the homeless, and why spiritual poverty is much more dangerous than material poverty, and more.
Let's get this started.
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Show Notes
Brett’s Website: https://keck.usc.edu/faculty-search/brett-feldman/
Brett’s Email: brettfel@usc.edu
Brett’s TEDxTalk: https://www.ted.com/talks/brett_feldman_street_medicine_caring_for_the_homeless_with_radical_humility
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