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The Doctor's Art

Navigating the Gaps in Patient Stories | Ilana Yurkiewicz, MD

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Philosophy, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.8267 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

It's a cliche to say health care is broken. However, the extent to which it is unnecessarily convoluted, inefficient, and fragmented frustrates even the most experienced clinicians each time they are forced to deal with its consequences. Medical records disappear when a patient switches doctors. Critical details of life-saving treatment plans are buried deep within thousands of pages worth of electronic charts. In this episode, Stanford oncologist and journalist Ilana Yurkiewicz, MD exp...

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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?

0:15.1

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.

0:23.0

What can we learn about the human condition

0:24.8

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,

0:33.0

from doctors and nurses to patients and health care

0:35.4

executives, those who have collected a career's worth of hard-earned wisdom.

0:40.1

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.

0:52.8

Join us as we think out loud about what illness and healing can teach us

0:57.1

about some of life's biggest questions.

0:59.7

At this point, it's a cliche to say that health care is broken, but the extent to which it is unnecessarily

1:09.2

convoluted, inefficient, and fragmented frustrates and saddens even the most experienced clinicians each time they are forced to deal with its consequences

1:18.7

Medical records disappear when a patient switches doctors

1:29.0

critical details of life-saving treatment plans are buried deep within thousands of pages worth of electronic charts. In this episode, Stanford oncologist and journalist,

1:32.9

Dr. Ilana Yurkowitz explores all the ways

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