The latest edition of the Medical Association of Georgia’s (MAG) ‘Top Docs Radio’ show addresses adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and “systemic empathy” – which is designed to integrate empathy into our health care experience/system to improve patient outcomes. It features Stan Sonu, M.D., M.P.H., an assistant professor of internal medicine, pediatrics, and preventative medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine and an associate program director for Emory’s Internal Medicine Residency Program.
Dr. Sonu discusses…
– How ACEs are related to health and behavioral outcomes
– A Kaiser Permanente/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ACEs study
– Types of adversity that children experience that weren’t addressed by the study
– The links between ACEs and disease and morbidity
– Ways for physicians to care for patients who have experienced ACEs
– “Trauma-informed care”
– “Systemic empathy”
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