{"id":93437,"date":"2014-05-13T09:50:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T13:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=93437"},"modified":"2014-05-16T09:26:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T13:26:36","slug":"dr-richard-besser-shares-advice-for-new-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2014\/05\/dr-richard-besser-shares-advice-for-new-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Richard Besser Shares Advice for New Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Dr. Richard Besser Shares Advice for New Doctors\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Akf-juzWZwg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 12px 0px 0px 0px;clear: both;float: left\">\n<p>Dr. Richard Besser, ABC News&#8217; Chief Health and Medical Editor, delivered the address at the UConn Health commencement ceremony on May 12. Sharing advice he solicited from his followers on social media, he told the new doctors and dentists, &#8220;Being able to sit down with a patient is an incredible privilege. With that privilege comes responsibility \u2013 to truly listen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In an additional clip from the speech, Besser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ghmruDKPqvY\">describes an emergency C-section<\/a> he performed solo in a remote village in India.<\/p>\n<p>View Besser&#8217;s entire graduation speech <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MATUa2jCccw\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Liza Donnelly, <em>New Yorker<\/em> cartoonist and the speaker at the Graduate School ceremony on May 10, wrote a column\u00a0\u2013 complete with cartoon\u00a0\u2013 in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lizadonnelly\/2014\/05\/12\/the-importance-of-high-heels\/\">Forbes magazine<\/a>, reflecting on her experience as a graduation speaker: &#8220;The Importance of High Heels.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Besser, ABC News&#8217; Chief Health and Medical Editor, delivered the the 2014 UConn Health graduation address on May 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":93495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-93437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 05:33:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93437"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93523,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93437\/revisions\/93523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/93495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93437"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=93437"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=93437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}