On Courage and Curiosity | Phil Pizzo, MD

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Medicine, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Philosophy

5 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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A former dean of Stanford Medical School and past leader at the National Cancer Institute, Phil Pizzo, MD is as renowned for his groundbreaking research on childhood cancers and immunodeficiency as he is for his promotion of medical education. He is also a tireless scholar who continues pursuing knowledge and purpose deep into what many would consider the retirement years. In this episode, Dr. Pizzo shares what caring for children with some of the most harrowing diseases has taught ...

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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
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	We are delighted today to welcome Dr. Phil Pizot to the episode.
1:07.0	From 2001 to 2012, Dr. Pizot served as Dean of Stanford Medical School, where he was also a professor of pediatrics,
1:15.2	microbiology, and immunology.
1:18.0	Prior to joining Stanford, he was a physician and chief of Boston Children's Hospital
1:22.4	and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
1:26.0	Dr. Pezoe has also spent over 20 years in various leadership positions at the National Cancer Institute,
1:31.6	where he is renowned for his groundbreaking research on childhood cancers and
1:35.2	immunocompromised children.
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