How Public Health Saved Your Life | Leana Wen, MD

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Philosophy, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.8 • 267 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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According to emergency physician Leana Wen, MD, MS, "public health saved your life today, you just don't know it." Having been appointed the Baltimore City Health Commissioner at the age of 31, she certainly has the credentials and stories to illustrate this assertion. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, public health played a frequently misunderstood and under-appreciated role in our society, ranging from sanitation and immunization to mental health support and pollution control. In addition to ...

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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.
1:00.0	According to our guest on this episode, Emergency Physician Dr. Lena Wen,
1:08.0	Public Health saved your life today. You just don't know it.
1:12.0	Having been appointed the Baltimore City Health Commissioner at the age of 31,
1:16.6	she certainly has the credentials and the stories to back up this assertion.
1:21.5	Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, public health played a frequently
1:25.2	misunderstood and under-appreciated role in our society, ranging from sanitation and immunization
1:31.8	to mental health support and pollution control.
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