Paul D Corona MD was born and raised in Southern California. He attended the University of Southern California from 1980-1984, receiving a BS degree in Biology/Premed. From there he went to Medical school at New York Medical College, and then a three – year residency program in family practice at California Hospital in Los Angeles.
After the first decade in Family Medicine, he decided to move full time into psychiatry, combining both into “Mind Body Medicine.” He then decided to dedicate the rest of his career to patient care and teaching patients and Doctors alike the emotional and physical benefits of “this revolutionary medical solution. “
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Dr. Dave, I hope you will allow some constructive criticism from a long-time (since 2005 or 6) fan. Your interview with Dr. Corona left some room for improvement.
By the end of the interview I had learned that Dr. Corona has some sort of novel outlook on psychiatric treatment through medication, but I had absolutely no idea of the specifics. I had, however, learned about his childhood, his feelings about the healthcare system, and numerous aspects about his personal life, politics, and matriculation. I feel like the mission of the podcast for many years was to serve as an alternative route for psychological education. The podcast was a forum for those whose work was either foundational, novel, or even experimental and questionable. This is not to say that your own contributions to the content have not been valuable.
You were kind enough to enlighten us all regarding your youthful interest in the psyche of others as an impetus to study psychology. This is easily apparent in your desire to find out what motivated and informed your guests in their work. However, of late, it seems to take up more than a reasonable amount of your interviews.
Further, an increasing amount of time seems to be spent by you in searching for words, or seeking to find the next direction you prefer to send your interview along. The “density”, for lack of a better term, of your interviews suffered further when you contracted your very long experience with COVID. The fact that you coughed directly into the microphone rather than pressing your spacebar to mute yourself, and the lack of editing of the finished product, made your output very difficult to listen to, especially compared to the work produced by younger, more polished podcasters.
In recent podcasts you have lamented the fact that you have received a paucity of comments on your podcasts. I think the reason for this is that your audience has some constructive criticism and VERY IMPORTANTLY does not want to lose you as a valuable, and loved friend! I feel that for many of us you hold the place of a valued professor, or uncle, or perhaps grandfather-shaman. Dr. Dave, I hope you will take this criticism as a focusing lens. Don’t be afraid to let your guests take the lead. Those especially who have written books will probably have a good amount of patter or discourse prepared for your show.
Most importantly, sir, know that we all love you. For absolutely free you have given us so much!
I also hope that those of your listeners who think I’m wrong will say so here. Please moderate my message or rephrase it. The truth lives in the mind of the group and certainly not in my own!