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The Doctor's Art

The Doctor Who Cycled the World | Stephen Fabes, MBChB

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Philosophy, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.8267 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

"It's like having a backstage pass to the world." That's how Stephen Fabes, MBChB describes his epic adventure exploring all six inhabited continents on a bicycle. Over the course of 6+ years, he cycled across 75 countries and 53,000 miles, discovering how human stories shape our conceptions of health and illness. Currently an acute medicine specialist at the Royal London Hospital, Dr. Fabes is also the author of the 2020 memoir Signs of Life: A Doctor's Journey to the Ends of the Ear...

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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.

0:59.4

It's like having a backstage pass to the world.

1:05.0

That's how Dr. Stephen Fabs describes his epic adventure exploring all six inhabited continents on a bicycle.

1:13.0

Over the course of six-plus years, he cycled across 75 countries and 53,000 miles

1:20.0

discovering how human stories shape our conceptions of health and illness.

1:25.0

Currently an acute medicine specialist at the Royal London Hospital,

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