health
Hosted by Human Content · health · EN
You may have noticed a new trend lately. Everyone is loud and proud about their mental health struggles (and thank goodness)! For practitioners, this movement is as exciting as it is frustrating. As each mental health taboo falls by the wayside as it enters the cultural zeitgeist, a new aspect of our specialty thus emerges. One we just don’t have enough hours in the day to keep track of, let alone engage with. From better understanding our patients’ (and our own) relationships with their conditions in a changing world, it’s more important than ever that we learn: HOW TO BE PATIENT! Each week, join Dr. Preston Roche (Psychiatry Resident & Digital Influencer) and Dr. Margaret Duncan (Psychiatrist & Content Creator) on their quest to better understand the patients we dedicate our lives to and the evolving paths they’re bound to travel beyond the clinic. By engaging with stories and perspectives that challenge our shared understanding of a condition, we hope yo
Required Pod Score for this podcast. PitchCentric checks your profile against host openness, topical fit, and audience signals before you generate a pitch.
Contact path
Verified email
Booking probability
34%
Guest openness
Selective
Sign up to generate a grounded pitch for How to Be Patient.
Signup to Generate a PitchYou may have noticed a new trend lately. Everyone is loud and proud about their mental health struggles (and thank goodness)! For practitioners, this movement is as exciting as it is frustrating. As each mental health taboo falls by the wayside as it enters the cultural zeitgeist, a new aspect of our specialty thus emerges.
How to Be Patient is hosted by Human Content. The show has published 86 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Thinking about Thinking (brief episode with Preston)" (26 October 2026, 16 minutes), "Excerpts from the American Journal of Insanity (July 1851)" (19 October 2026, 50 minutes), and "How does image guided TMS stack up against the current method?" (5 October 2026, 48 minutes).
How to Be Patient publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 60 minutes across 86 episodes.
Booking probability for How to Be Patient is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. How to Be Patient requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. How to Be Patient's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for How to Be Patient are Doctors & Physicians. How to Be Patient has a health audience.
Human Content hosts How to Be Patient, a health podcast with 86 episodes published.
Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.
How to Be Patient
In this solo episode with Preston we (me) discuss the neuroscience concept of metacognition and how it may apply to some of our conceptualization of current psych illnesses, along with some loose ruminating of course...
How to Be Patient
In today's episode we take a look back towards the history of psychiatry and read from the publication “The American Journal of Insanity.” This is the journal that predates the American Journal of Psychiatry (the name...
How to Be Patient
In this episode we're doing another journal club, this time reviewing the first randomized clinical trial comparing image-guided TMS to the traditional method using scalp targeting for depression. We walk through how...
How to Be Patient
In today’s episode, Preston and Margaret discuss the psychotherapy paper The Theory of the Crunch, by Paul Libby, a psychoanalyst. In this episode and in the paper, the idea of creating a containing environment...
How to Be Patient
In this episode, Margaret and I take on the en vogue topic of GLP-1s. They have been utilized for T2DM for several years and just recently took center stage in the zeitgeist for weight loss (medically indicated or...
How to Be Patient
In this episode, Margaret and Preston present how two psychiatrists think about prescribing medications for depression. Using different common clinical scenarios, they discuss standard clinical guidelines, navigating...
How to Be Patient
The Greeks described two kinds of madness, and both are fun to talk about on our pod. Inspired by the recent hullabaloo around The Odyssey, we are going to be breaking down the DSM-V diagnoses we see in the series and...
How to Be Patient
In today’s episode, Margaret and Preston are joined by pediatrician and child psychiatrist Elizabeth Pinsky, MD. Dr. Pinsky works as a pediatric consult-liaison psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and her...
How to Be Patient
Laugh all you want (please laugh it’s supposed to be funny), Preston has been doing improv from the last year and he has some thoughts. Not just “yes ands” about how it makes him a better doctor, and he is dragging...
How to Be Patient
Margaret is back and today our episode pulls themes from Carol Dweck’s work and book Growth Mindset, as well as a favorite sophisticated film: Kung Fu Panda. In this episode, Margaret and Preston discuss a frame to make...
How to Be Patient
In Episode 15, Preston and Margaret open a bottle—of questions, stories, and science—about alcohol use disorder. What do we get wrong about “moderate” drinking? Why is detox more dangerous than most people realize? And...
How to Be Patient
In today’s episode we bring on Dr. Campbell Sullivan, PsyD to discuss the interesting field of neuropsychology, a complicated niche that focuses on eliciting deficits in cognition across patters of disease. We discuss...
How to Be Patient
In this preston-led episode, we take a deep dive into the history of lithium and its use in psychiatry. But because Preston is very literal, we are starting at the very beginning, inside of stars where lithium was...
How to Be Patient
In this episode of historical psychiatric diagnoses we continue the “arc” (get it) with the story of a young girl with vivid hallucinations who galvanized the French army and a wise king who lost his sanity late in...
How to Be Patient
We're pulling a throwback from season two for this one, and it's the episode I will go to the mat for as one of the most clinically useful hours of psychiatry content we've ever put out. Margaret literally calculates...
How to Be Patient
Today we'll talk through this one study from 2010 out of the Oxford Department of Experimental Psychology, "Task-related default mode network modulation and inhibitory control in ADHD: effects of motivation and...
How to Be Patient
We're going back to one of our oldies but besties. This is our motivational interviewing episode from season one, which Margaret and I both agree is probably the best episode we made that whole first run. And it holds...
How to Be Patient
I figured we'd do something I've been wanting to do for a while: story time. Specifically, the kind where I take some of history's most famous figures, walk you through what actually happened to them, and then put on my...
How to Be Patient
We're doing a throwback! This was our second episode ever, way back when I was at the beginning of fourth year of med school and Margaret and I were still figuring out the rhythm of this whole podcast thing. I'm now at...
How to Be Patient
In this episode we are joined by my coresident, @undercoverdoc who has a special interested in fitness culture and bodybuilding. With the protein intake, food weighing and gym discipline also comes “extracurriculars,”...
Recent guests on How to Be Patient. Study who booked and why before you pitch.
pediatric gastroenterologist, educator, content creator, Pepper Lunch Restaurants
writer, advocate, co-creator of the Glaucomflecken universe, Glaucomflecken LLC
board-certified psychiatrist, psychotherapist, author, pioneer in nutritional psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
NY Times Best-Selling Author, Entertainer & Mental Health Practitioner, Movement Genius
PitchCentric classifies How to Be Patient under these industries. Guests from them are the closest fit, and each links to the best podcasts in that industry.
Shows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.
Life as a Patient-Doctor
The Patient Physician
Mental Health 101
Mental Health Chat Monday
Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast
The Y in Psychiatry
Is this podcast yours and you'd like to remove or correct details? Request removal or email privacy@pitchcentric.com.
Questions about the free trial? See the pricing FAQ