Ezekiel Emanuel on the Practice of Medicine, Policy, and Life

Conversations with Tyler

Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 22 May 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Ezekiel Emanuel is a reflection of his upbringing: a doctor for a father who loved to travel, a mother interested in policy and community activism, and all the competition and friendship that comes with growing up closely with two brothers. Put those together and you wouldn’t be surprised that the result is someone who has worked at both the highest levels of, medicine, policy and academia — though the intense interest in jam might surprise you.

Do we overrate the importance of doctors? What’s the importance of IQ versus EQ in the practice of medicine? What is the prospect for venture capital in biotech? How should medical training be changed? Why does he think the conventional wisdom about a problem tends to be wrong? Would immortality be boring? What would happen if we let parents genetically engineer their kids?

Tyler questions Emanuel on these topics and more, including the smartest thing his parents did while raising him, whether we have right to medical self-defense, healthcare in low- versus high-trust institutions, and much more.

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Recorded April 19th, 2019

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0:28.6	Hello, this is Tyler Cowan, and I'm here today with Zika Manual, who in my view needs no
0:36.4	introduction.
0:37.5	So let's start in on doctors.
0:40.1	Do we overrate the importance of IQ for doctors?
0:42.8	Oh, yeah, that's definitely the case.
0:45.0	So what is it we're underrating in this term?
0:46.7	We think that smarts is what counts, but I think a lot more of it is emotional intelligence,
0:52.6	judgment, under pressure, much more important.
0:56.2	So just think about what the big challenge is for medicine today.
1:00.7	The big challenge is the fact that $0.86 of every dollar goes for people with chronic illness.
1:06.4	That's an illness that can have every day for the rest of their lives or every day for
1:10.8	the foreseeable future.
1:12.8	And the main thing is to get them to change their behaviors related to that.
1:16.8	And that is not about intelligence.
1:18.8	That is about relating to them and emotional intelligence and getting them and persuading
1:24.1	them to change their behavior.
1:25.5	It's not IQ, what's the best predictor of emotional intelligence?
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