Manuel Astruc, MD

In this episode of The Big Q, Gaurava Agarwal, MD; Manuel Astruc, MD; and Richard M. Berlin, MD, discuss the importance of understanding a patient's ethnicity and cultural norms when working with them to develop a treatment plan.

serves as director of physician well-being for Northwestern Medicine and as an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences (general psychiatry) and medical education in Northwestern Medicine’s Feinberg School of Medicine. 

is a psychiatrist with more than 20 years of experience based in New York. He is also the founder of Your Next Act, a coaching program in which he gives people the tools they need to transform stress into success. 

is an instructor in psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has also been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 24 years in 

™ in a column called “Poetry of the Times.”

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How important is it to understand a person’s ethnicity and cultural norms when developing a treatment plan?

The Importance of Cultural Understanding

In this Mental Health Minute video, Manuel Astruc, MD, shares his own experiences with burnout and how we can overcome burnout through growth, relationships, resiliency, and “committing to enjoying the ride, no matter what.”

with more than 20 years of experience based in New York. His own struggles with burnout, addiction, and depression

gives people the tools to transform stress into success by teaching them to fortify their mental toughness and become a catalyst for positive change in themselves and their businesses.

“So much of my life had been lived by default—and now it’s life by design.”

Manuel Astruc, MD

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The Importance of Cultural Understanding

Blazing Your Own Trail