010 - AUTONOMY: with guest Bruce Katuna, MD

Physicians’ level of autonomy and authority must be commensurate with their level of accountability for patient outcomes. <br />I lassoed neurologist and neurophysiologist Bruce Katuna, MD into a podcast conversation about the neuroscience of autonomy. <br />Autonomy is a basic human drive. When our autonomy is thwarted at work it creates a threat state that impairs our ability to think. The stakes are even higher in medicine because of the complex decision-making, the patients’ vulnerability, and the physicians’ ethical obligations to patients. <br />My colleague, Lynn Elliott, joins us to guide this conversation about the brain’s threat state, the CARB model of interpersonal motivators, and the many facets of autonomy relevant to the work of physicians.