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The Doctor's Art

Reflections on Happiness from 80 Years in Medicine | Gladys McGarey, MD

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Philosophy, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.8267 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Born in India in 1920, Gladys McGarey, MD has a life story marked with various pivotal moments of the 20th century. She witnessed Gandhi's Salt March in her final childhood days in India, arrived in the US amid the Great Depression, began medical school four months before the US joined World War II, and became a physician at a time when few women were accepted in the profession. She would later co-found the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine and the American Board of Integrative Medic...

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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.

1:00.0

Born in India in India in 1920, Dr. Gladys McGarry's life story is marked with various pivotal moments of the 20th century.

1:10.0

She witnessed Gandhi's salt march in her final childhood days,

1:14.0

arrived in the US in the midst of the Great Depression,

1:17.0

began medical school four months before the US joined the Second World War,

1:21.0

and became a physician at a time when few women were accepted in the profession.

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