Grief, Loss, and a Brighter Path Forward | Stephanie Harman, MD

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Medicine, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Philosophy

5 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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As the founding medical director of Palliative Care Services at Stanford Hospital, Stephanie Harman, MD is no stranger to death and grief. In this episode, she shares the story of how she discovered palliative care through the death of someone close and what it looks like to transform what are often the moments of greatest patient suffering into moments of profound meaning and humanism. In addition to her palliative care work, Dr. Harman is a clinical associate professor of medicine...

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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. Our guest today is Dr. Steph Harmon, founding medical director of the Palliative
1:08.3	care service at Stanford Hospital and co-chair of the Stanford Health Care Ethics Committee.
1:13.0	Dr. Harmon is passionate about teaching and researching how doctors communicate
1:17.8	with patients, especially in the context of serious illness,
1:21.0	as well as bioethical issues at the end of life.
1:24.6	In addition to her work in Paliative Care, she's Associate Chair for the Woman in Medicine
1:29.1	Initiative in Sanford's Department of Medicine. In this episode, Dr. Harmon will share with us
1:35.0	how her early experiences with death
1:37.6	drew her to a career of caring for dying individuals,
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