Confronting Inhumanity Through Medicine | Christos Christou, MD

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Medicine, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Philosophy

5 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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When it comes to medical humanitarianism, there is no bigger name than Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known in English as Doctors Without Borders. MSF is renowned for its work in regions affected by armed conflict, endemic diseases, and natural disasters. In this episode, we are joined by Cristos Christou, MD, a Greek surgeon who has served as the international president of MSF since 2019. As a field doctor, he has worked in South Sudan, Iraq, Cameroon, and various other conflict zones....

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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
0:17.2	create better doctors?
0:18.8	How can we build health care institutions
0:20.7	that nurture the doctor-patient connection.
0:23.0	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,
0:36.5	those who have collected a career's worth of hard-earned wisdom.
0:39.7	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, join us as we think out loud about what
0:55.3	illness and healing can teach us about some of life's biggest questions.
1:00.6	When it comes to international humanitarianism in the form of medical aid, there is perhaps no bigger name than
1:10.2	Medsance on frontier, commonly referred to by its acronym MSF.
1:15.8	Known as Doctors Without Borders in English, MSF is renowned for its work in regions affected
1:21.0	by armed conflict, endemic diseases, and natural disasters.
1:25.9	In this episode, we are honored to be joined by Dr. Christos Christo, a Greek surgeon who is the
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