Transforming the Culture of Medicine | Robert Pearl, MD

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Philosophy, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.8 • 267 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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As former CEO of the Permanente Medical Group, Robert Pearl, MD was responsible for the work of 50,000 healthcare workers and the medical care of 5 million Americans through Kaiser Permanente hospitals across the country. A leading expert on healthcare management and strategy, Dr. Pearl is the author of two bestselling books, “Mistreated: Why We Think We’re Getting Good Healthcare–And Why We’re Usually Wrong” and “Uncaring: How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients,” a regular co...

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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 Doctor's 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
0:17.2	create better doctors?
0:18.8	How can we build health care institutions
0:20.6	that nurture the doctor-patient connection?
0:23.0	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 health care, from doctors and nurses to patients and health care executives, those who have collected a career's worth of hard-earned wisdom.
0:40.0	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.
0:53.0	Join us as we think out loud about what illness and healing can teach us about some of life's biggest questions.
1:00.0	The Permanente Medical Group is the single largest medical group in the United States,
1:07.0	with around 10,000 doctors and 35,000 nurses in its network, caring for nearly 5 million patients through the Kaiser Permanente health plan and its affiliated hospitals.
1:17.8	Kaiser Permanente has established itself as a leader in integrated care, disease prevention and early intervention.
1:25.4	Our guest today is Dr. Robert Pearl, a plastic surgeon who was CEO of the Permanent
1:30.6	Medical Group from 1999 to 2017.
1:34.6	Dr. Pearl is the author of two best-selling books on the strengths and flaws of American
1:39.2	Medicine and as a regular contributor to Forbes magazine.
1:43.0	In addition, he hosts two popular podcasts,
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