Dr. Jonathan Weinkle, Doctor Podcast Network
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Welcome to Healing People, Not Patients, hosted by Dr. Jonathan Weinkle, MD, FAAP, FACP. A primary care physician and teacher deeply grounded in Jewish wisdom, Dr. Weinkle invites listeners to explore medicine not as a business transaction but as a sacred calling. This show shines a light on the fractured healthcare system and offers stories, reflections, and conversations that reconnect doctors with the heart of healing—body, mind, and spirit. Through solo episodes, expert interviews, and even original music, you’ll gain inspiration and practical guidance to navigate burnout, rediscover joy, and reclaim purpose in medicine. Whether you’re a physic...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jonathan Weinkle connects patient stories, clinical uncertainty, and Jewish reflection to show what medical records often fail to capture.
Healing People, Not Patients keeps asking what clinical care misses when a person is reduced to a diagnosis or a manageable case. Primary care doctor Jonathan Weinkle moves from reflective openings into guest conversations, using Jewish stories and clinical observations to…
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A quiet reminder that care is proved in the small moments where dignity is either recognized or missed.
The episode treats medicine as a moral duty before it becomes a technical one. It moves from a first-year medical student’s Torah-rooted belief that people are made in the divine image to the ordinary acts that make care matter: explaining instructions clearly, taking pain…
A clear-eyed look at work that can damage bodies, and at how hard it can be to find a safer way forward.
The episode keeps work, injury, and dignity in view as it moves from the obvious risks of elite sports to the slower wear that ordinary jobs can leave on a body. It is at its best when it treats those losses as more than career setbacks.
Purim levity leads into a reflective look at chronic illness, advocacy, and better care.
Purim greeting opens into a thoughtful conversation with Abby Feidelberg about chronic illness, patient advocacy, and healthcare leadership, all aimed at narrowing the gap between what medicine promises and what a person actually needs.
A humane reminder that a diagnosis is not the whole story.
The piece stays centered on a familiar medical risk: a patient getting reduced to a quick summary before the fuller story is heard. Using Gaucher disease, Passover, and the Exodus, it shows how brevity can turn into premature closure, then brings that concern back to pain,…
A chaplaincy conversation about uncertainty, dignity, and staying present.
This episode dwells in the narrow space between illness and uncertainty, using a hospital chaplain's perspective on the pandemic to ask what it means to stay human when answers fall away. Rabbi Kara Tav and Dr.
Herbal medicine mapped through stars and plants.
Rabbi Kara Tav reflects on chaplaincy in the hardest months of the pandemic.
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Purim opens the door to a conversation about survival, laughter, and the tenderness of memory.
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Miriam Fenster helps a hospitalized woman replace a Shabbat dilemma with music that may calm her suicidal crisis.
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Ashok Gurung describes leaving Bhutan, surviving a refugee camp, and turning gratitude into community healthcare.