Lessons on Mortality and Dying Well | Ira Byock, MD

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Medicine, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Philosophy

5 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Ira Byock, MD is a leading figure in hospice and palliative medicine, having developed many practices and tools that now define the specialty. For him, this profession is a continual pursuit of balancing the scientific and human aspects of medical care, to address patient well-being in a way that transcends conventional concepts of disease and illness. In this episode, Dr. Byock joins us to discuss how palliative medicine developed into what it is today, how viewing death as a normal par...

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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.
1:00.0	It's our honor to be joined today by Dr. Ira Bayoc, a leading advocate for improving care at the end of life and a pioneer in palliative medicine since the 1970s.
1:13.6	Dr. Baiok is a past president of the American Academy of Hospice and
1:17.5	palliative medicine, which he helped create.
1:20.5	He's an emeritus professor of medicine at Geiselle School of Medicine and previously directed the palliative medicine program at Dartmouth University's medical center. In addition, Dr. Biaka is the author of Dying Well, The Four Things that Matter Most, and the Best Care
1:35.1	Possible. These three books have become standards in the field of hospice and palliative care and
1:40.1	have transformed how clinicians everywhere think about caring for the dying.
1:44.0	Dr. Bayak, thank you for being here.
1:46.4	Thanks for having me, first of all, and you can call me Ira.
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