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The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Philosophy, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.8 • 267 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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When Kathy Giusti was told she had multiple myeloma one fateful day in 1996, she was 37 and in the midst of a successful rising career. She was the mother of a one-year-old baby with plans to have a second child. The disease had few treatments and she was given three years to live. Instead of sitting back, however, Kathy took action to create her own hope. That meant not only conducting research on treatments where there was none, but doing it with unprecedented speed and precision.&nbs...

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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.
1:00.3	When Kathy Juistee was told she had cancer on one fateful day in 1996, she was 37 and in the midst of a successful rising career.
1:13.0	She was the mother of a one-year-old baby with plans to have a second child.
1:18.0	As she put it, she didn't just have any cancer,
1:21.0	but one of the lousy ones, with a weird name and no effective treatment.
1:25.7	She was given three years to live. It was multiple myeloma, a cancer arising from a type of white blood cell called a plasma cell.
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