In Service of a Greater Cause (with Dr. Dean Winslow)

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Medicine, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Philosophy

5 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Dean Winslow has led an extraordinarily multifaceted career as an infectious disease specialist and former US Air Force colonel. In his pioneering work at the front lines of the AIDS epidemic, he headed one of the first HIV clinics in the country and created HIV treatments and diagnostics still used today. During his multiple deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq as a flight surgeon, he commanded field hospitals that treated military personnel and local civilians alike. As a long-time professor of medicine at Stanford, he has been a popular mentor to hundreds of medical professionals. In this episode, with his trademark cheerful and humble demeanor, Dr. Winslow shares the colorful, poignant, and amusing stories he has collected over his decades of service.

In this episode, you will hear about:

Dr. Winslow’s personal path that led him to medicine and his initial work during the early days of the AIDS epidemic - 2:51
How Dr. Winslow manages the emotional burden that comes with treating seriously ill patients with HIV - 20:24
Dr. Winslow’s experiences in military medicine and how they have shaped his medical career - 25:31
A humorous story on solving a tough infectious disease case through medical detective work - 32:09
Dr. Winslow’s advice to medical trainees who may be struggling with burnout, and what improvements should be made to the healthcare system to take pressure off medical professionals - 36:51

A narrative essay by Dr. Winslow about his military medical career: Treating the Enemy.

Follow Dr. Winslow’s work at StanfordHealthcare.org

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Henry Bear.
0:03.4	And I'm Tyler Johnson.
0:04.9	And you're listening to the Doctors' Art, a podcast that explores meaning in medicine.
0:09.9	Throughout our medical training and career, we have pondered, what makes medicine meaningful?
0:15.2	Can a stronger understanding of this meaning create better doctors?
0:18.8	How can we build healthcare institutions that nurture the doctor-patient connection?
0:23.2	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 healthcare,
0:33.1	from doctors and nurses to patients and healthcare executives, those who have collected a
0:37.6	career's worth of harder and wisdom.
0:40.2	Proving the moral heart that beats at the core of medicine, we will hear stories that
0:44.0	are by turns heartbreaking, amusing, inspiring, challenging, and enlightening.
0:49.4	We welcome anyone curious about why doctors do what they do.
0:52.8	Join us as we think out loud about what illness and healing can teach us about some of
0:57.7	life's biggest questions.
1:00.0	We are joined in this episode by Dr. Dean Winslow, an infectious disease specialist,
1:08.6	hospitalist, public health leader, and retired Air Force colonel.
1:12.9	As a disclaimer, there is no succinct way to adequately capture Dr. Winslow's diverse
1:17.4	and decorated career, but here we will try nonetheless.
1:21.0	For the last four decades, Dr. Winslow has been at the forefront of treating patients with
1:25.2	HIV and has helped develop important tools and medications used to diagnose and treat
1:30.2	HIV.
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