Speaking
Speaking & Engagements
Forty years of emergency medicine, bioethics, and humanitarian work, brought into every room with directness, moral seriousness, and the kind of honesty that changes how physicians think about their work.
Dr. Brauner does not speak from theory. He speaks from the accumulated weight of what he has seen, and from a conviction that medicine can be practiced with more courage, more presence, and more moral clarity than it currently is. His talks are not comfortable. They are useful.
Topics
What Dr. Brauner Speaks About
- 01
On Hard Doctoring: What Medicine Demands of Us
A keynote drawn from his forthcoming book: on presence, moral injury, and the radical act of remaining human in a profession that rewards efficiency over encounter. For grand rounds, medical conferences, and humanities in medicine programs.
Audiences
Physicians, medical students, nursing staff, hospital leadership
- 02
Moral Injury and the Physician's Silent Wound
The damage that accumulates when physicians are asked to act against their deepest sense of what medicine is for -- and what institutions can do to stop producing it. A talk that names what most physicians have felt but few have heard named.
Audiences
Hospital leadership, residency programs, physician wellness initiatives
- 03
AI and the Future of the Clinical Encounter
What algorithms can optimize, what they cannot replace, and what we risk losing if we let efficiency become the measure of good medicine. A rigorous, non-alarmist examination of what AI means for the physician-patient relationship.
Audiences
Medical conferences, health technology forums, hospital leadership
- 04
Medicine at the Edge: Humanitarian Practice and What It Reveals
Dispatches from Gaza and other humanitarian settings -- and what practicing medicine under impossible conditions reveals about medicine everywhere. On bearing witness, on the ethics of presence, and on what the system looks like from its margins.
Audiences
Medical schools, global health programs, ethics committees, general audiences
- 05
The Presence Problem: Attention as a Clinical Skill
The discipline of truly seeing the patient in front of you -- what it requires, what it costs, and why it is the most important clinical skill that medical education does not teach. Practical and philosophical in equal measure.
Audiences
Medical education, residency programs, nursing education, clinical teams
- 06
What Nursing Knows That Medicine Ignores
The invisible labor that holds the system together -- and what the experience of nurses reveals about the true nature of care, the failures of hierarchy, and what a more honest medicine would look like.
Audiences
Nursing conferences, interprofessional education, hospital leadership
Formats
Grand Rounds
60–90 minute clinical and humanistic presentations for physician and resident audiences.
Keynote
45–60 minute opening or closing addresses for medical conferences and institutional events.
Workshop
Half-day or full-day intensive sessions on presence, moral injury, or ethics in clinical practice.
Panel & Moderation
Participation in or moderation of panels on medical ethics, AI, humanitarian medicine, and physician identity.
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