The Spirituality of Care (with Chaplain Bruce Feldstein, MD)

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Medicine, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Philosophy

5 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Chaplain Bruce Feldstein, MD is the director of the Jewish Chaplaincy Service at Stanford University, as well as an adjunct clinical professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. After 19 years practicing as an emergency medicine physician, an injury led Bruce on a path of finding a deeper sense of his life’s work as a Chaplain. He now teaches an award-winning curriculum on spirituality and well-being for medical students and faculty at Stanford.

In this episode, you will hear about:

Chaplain Feldstein’s unexpected journey from emergency physician to chaplain - 3:35
The unforgettable moment when Chaplain Feldstein first prayed with a patient - 5:00
How to connect with patients in a spiritual way – even if they’re not religious - 18:04
Five key relationships to foster in your life to counter compassion fatigue - 30:57
The core teaching within Chaplain Feldstein’s class, ‘The Healer’s Art’ - 37:40

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Henry Bear.
0:03.3	And I'm Tyler Johnson.
0:04.8	And you're listening to the Doctors' Art, a podcast that explores meaning in medicine.
0:09.8	Throughout our medical training and career, we have pondered, what makes medicine meaningful?
0:15.2	Can a stronger understanding of this meaning create better doctors?
0:18.8	How can we build healthcare institutions that nurture the doctor-patient connection?
0:23.1	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 healthcare,
0:33.1	from doctors and nurses to patients and healthcare executives, those who have collected a career's
0:38.0	worth of harder and wisdom.
0:40.2	Proving the moral heart that beats at the core of medicine, we will hear stories that are
0:44.0	by turns heartbreaking, amusing, inspiring, challenging, and enlightening.
0:49.3	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 about some of
0:57.6	life's biggest questions.
1:01.6	Our guest on today's episode is Chaplain Bruce Feldstein, who is the founding director of
1:06.3	the Jewish Chaplaincy Service at Stanford Medicine, as well as an adjunct clinical professor
1:10.8	at Stanford University School of Medicine.
1:13.2	A graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School, Bruce was an emergency medicine
1:17.3	physician for 19 years before an injury led him to a deeper sense of his life's work
1:21.8	as a chaplain.
1:22.8	Bruce was a visiting scholar at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and completed
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