Best Of: When A Doctor Becomes A Patient / Lizzy Caplan

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🗓️ 4 February 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

After working as a neurosurgeon for over 40 years, Dr. Henry Marsh was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. The cancer led him to reflect on doctor/patient relationships, his own mortality, and why he'd consider the possibility of hastening the end through medically-assisted death. His new book is And Finally.

Also, we'll hear from actor Lizzy Caplan. In the series Fleishman Is in Trouble, she plays a character who's having questions about her marriage, motherhood, and what happened to her youth and potential.

And David Bianculli will review the new series Shrinking, starring Harrison Ford and Jason Segel.

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0:00.0	From WHYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend.
0:05.3	I'm Sam Bricker in Frateri Gross.
0:07.8	Today, when a doctor becomes a patient, after working as a neurosurgeon for over 40 years,
0:14.2	Henry Marsh was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer.
0:17.6	The cancer led him to reflect on doctor-patient relationships, his own mortality, and why
0:22.5	he'd consider the possibility of hastening the end through medically assisted death.
0:28.6	People will hear from Lizzie Kaplan.
0:30.3	In the series' Fleischman is in trouble, she plays a character who's having questions
0:33.9	about her marriage, motherhood, and what happened to her youth and potential.
0:38.2	Kaplan's first acting job was on the show Freaks and Geeks.
0:41.5	She remembers feeling frustrated by the part she was auditioning for in her teens and
0:45.7	twenties.
0:46.7	There was, you know, the hot, popular girl.
0:49.5	There was the nerd.
0:51.8	There was, like, the alternative best friend, which was very much my lane for a while.
0:58.6	And David B. and Kooley will review the new series, Shrinking.
1:05.4	That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.
1:09.2	This is Fresh Air Weekend.
1:10.5	I'm Sam Bricker in Frateri Gross.
1:13.1	Terry has today's first interview.
1:15.0	Here she is.
1:16.8	My guest Henry Marsh is a renowned British neurosurgeon who was awarded a CBE by the Queen for
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