Addressing Healthcare Inequities Through Patient Relationships | Lisa Cooper, MD

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Philosophy, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.8 • 267 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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It’s no longer a surprise that the race and ethnicity of a patient influence their health outcomes. But back in the 1990s, when Lisa Cooper, MD first documented and published findings that supported the role of patient race on the quality of physician-patient interactions, these were groundbreaking, even radical ideas. Today, Dr. Cooper, a physician and social epidemiologist, is the Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity and a Bloomberg Distinguished professor at the Johns Hop...

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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 Doctors 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?
0:15.2	Can a stronger understanding of this meaning create better doctors?
0:18.8	How can we build health care institutions that nurture the doctor-patient connection?
0:23.1	What can we learn about the human condition
0:25.0	from accompanying our patients in times of suffering?
0:28.0	In seeking answers to these questions,
0:30.0	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 heartbreaking, 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
0:56.4	can teach us about some of life's biggest questions.
0:59.8	If we were to tell you that the race and ethnicity of a patient shapes the
1:07.2	relationships they have with their doctors and affects their health
1:10.1	outcomes, you probably wouldn't be too surprised.
1:14.4	But back in the 1990s, when Dr. Lisa Cooper first documented and published findings that
1:19.8	supported the role of race on physician-patient interactions, these were groundbreaking and even
1:26.0	radical ideas.
1:28.0	Today, Dr Cooper, a physician and social epidemiologist, is the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity and a
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