A Physician-Engineer and His Patient Stories | Bryant Lin, MD, MEng

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Medicine, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Philosophy

5 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Technological advancements have enabled us to accomplish medical miracles through novel medical devices, algorithms, and digital tools. At the same time, the exponential entanglement of tech with healthcare has led many clinicians to feel disconnected from the human element of medicine. Here to discuss this conundrum is Bryant Lin, MD, MEng, the director of Medicine and the Muse, the medical humanities program at Stanford Medical School, and a mechanical engineer by training who focuses on me...

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Henry Bear.
0:03.0	And I'm Tyler Johnson.
0:05.0	And you're listening to The Doctor's Art, a podcast that explores meaning in medicine.
0:09.0	Throughout our medical training and career, we have pondered.
0:13.2	What makes medicine meaningful?
0:15.1	Can a stronger understanding of this meaning
0:17.2	create better doctors?
0:18.8	How can we build health care institutions
0:20.6	that nurture the doctor-patient connection?
0:23.0	What can we learn about the human condition from accompanying our patients in times of suffering?
0:28.0	In seeking answers to these questions, we meet with deep thinkers working across health care, from doctors and nurses to patients and health care executives, those who have collected a career's worth of hard-earned wisdom.
0:40.0	Probing the moral heart that beats at the core of medicine, we will hear stories that are by turns heart-breaking, amusing, inspiring, challenging, and enlightening.
0:49.0	We welcome anyone curious about why doctors do what they do.
0:53.0	Join us as we think out loud about what illness and healing can teach us about some of life's biggest questions.
1:00.0	Our guest today is Dr. Bryant Lynn, who is not only the director of the Medical Humanities
1:08.4	program at Stanford Medical School, but is an engineer by training who is involved in medical device development.
1:15.0	In addition, he does research in Asian population health and founded Stanford's
1:19.8	consultative medicine clinic, which evaluates patients with medical mysteries.
1:24.0	In today's episode, he joins us to discuss his journey in medicine and share touching stories that illustrate his deep interest in the human connections that underlie all of his diverse areas of interest.
1:34.0	Bryant, welcome to the show and thanks for being here.
1:37.0	Great, thanks for having me.
1:39.0	This is really fantastic to be on your podcast.
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