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Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American, posted on April 23, 2009. I'm Steve Merski. This week on the

podcast, Dr. Sherwin Newland talks about his new book, The Soul of Medicine, Tales from the Bedside.

Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news.

Sherwin-Newland is Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Yale University School of Medicine

and a fellow at Yale's Institute for Social and Policy Studies.

He's also a prolific writer, How We Die, Reflections on Life's Final Chapter,

spent 34 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and won him the National Book Award.

Newland's latest work, The Soul of Medicine, Tales from the Bedside, was just published.

He visited Scientific Americans' offices on April 22nd, and we spoke in the magazine's library.

Dr. Newlands, pleasure to speak with you.

Oh, it's a pleasure to be here.

This is a book that I have to tell you I was purposely trying to slow down my reading speed at the end because I didn't want it to end.

Oh, what a wonderful thing here.

It's too short. We need a volume two. It's a really interesting take on doctors and their patients.

And it's done in this Canterbury Tales, this chaucerian fashion.

Why did you decide to do it that way, first of all?

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