Patricia Raymond

Treat­ment for com­pas­sion fatigue. Apply lib­er­ally. Warn­ing: Side effects include exces­sive grinning.

Physi­cian, humor­ous med­ical moti­va­tional speaker, author and broad­caster, Patri­cia Ray­mond M.D. FACG takes med­i­cine seri­ously and her­self lightly.

Dr. Ray­mond is the author of Don't Jet­ti­son Med­i­cine: Resus­ci­tate Your Pas­sion for the Career You Loved, con­tribut­ing author in Chicken Soup for the Care­givers Soul and Fifty Things to Do When You Turn Fifty, and the cre­ator and pub­lisher of the multi-book series Colonoscopy: It'll Crack U Up.

Dr. Raymond's vision for how med­i­cine should be prac­ticed? Her answer is simple: "Doc­tors, nurses, and patients work­ing in part­ner­ship to ensure opti­mal well­ness, not just the absence of disease."

Asked back to the national Soci­ety of Gas­troen­terol­ogy Nurses & Asso­ciates for 11 con­sec­u­tive years, Ray­mond speaks on self-care for med­ical care­givers, lead­er­ship, staff reten­tion, and cus­tomer ser­vice in med­i­cine for lay audi­ences and diverse med­ical audi­ences from Podi­a­trists to Neu­rol­o­gists, and every body part between. Mem­ber of the pres­ti­gious National Speak­ers Asso­ci­a­tion, she gives an aver­age of 40 sem­i­nars a year for the past ten years. An expe­ri­enced health care pro­fes­sional with 20 years 'in the trenches', Dr. Ray­mond is board cer­ti­fied in Gas­troen­terol­ogy &  Inter­nal Med­i­cine, and is Fel­low of the Amer­i­can Col­lege of Gastroenterology.

The media loves Dr. Raymond's wit and down-to-earth med­ical wis­dom. Ray­mond is a fea­tured expert in many mag­a­zines such as Read­ers Digest, Women's Day, Shape, Men's Health, Pre­ven­tion, Red­book, Par­ents, Self, and For Women First, and is a con­trib­u­tor to pro­fes­sional jour­nals such as EndoNurse, Nurs­ing, Physi­cians Prac­tice, Med­ical Eco­nom­ics, Inter­nal Med­i­cine News, MD Life, Out­pa­tient Surgery, and Real Life Health Care. She is a fre­quent radio guest, and joins annu­ally in the ACG Radio Media Tour to sup­port colon can­cer awareness.

Dr. Ray­mond is the host of the radio pro­gram "Your Health Choice," pro­duced by NPR celebrity and com­poser BJ Lei­der­man, which gives fun and prac­ti­cal, nuts-and-bolts advice on all aspects of health.

Dr. Ray­mond also gives life to the cheeky and prob­ing "Diva of Doo" Ms. Butt Med­dler, singing about, you guessed it, colonoscopy. View her music par­ody videos on You Tube at the Butt Med­dler chan­nel. Ms. Meddler's maxim is "If you're BEHIND on your colon can­cer screen­ing, let your gas­troen­terol­o­gist RECTIFY that!"

Invite Dr. Ray­mond to speak at your next meet­ing, be it med­ical or gen­eral. Her cus­tomized keynotes and hilar­i­ous break­out ses­sions will rein­force your meet­ing objec­tives while pro­vid­ing a big dose of joy and laugh­ter. She speaks on resus­ci­tat­ing your pas­sion for your career, on health at the work place, on dietary and exer­cise choices, and of course, on colonoscopy.