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The Doctor's Art

Virtue and Good Medicine | John Rhee, MD, MPH

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Medicine, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Philosophy

52.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

There is something uniquely haunting about many neurological diseases. These conditions often don't only affect the body — they reshape the very foundation of who we are, our memories, our personalities, our language. When the brain begins to fail, the boundary between illness and identity start to blur; the person we know begins to fade even before their life has ended. In this episode, we are joined by John Rhee, MD, MPH, a neuro-oncologist and palliative care physician at Dana-Farb...

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Henry Bear.

0:02.6

And I'm Tyler Johnson.

0:04.6

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

0:21.7

connection? What can we learn about the human condition from accompanying our patients in times of

0:26.8

suffering? In seeking answers to these questions, we meet with deep thinkers working across health

0:32.3

care, from doctors and nurses to patients and health care executives, those who have collected

0:37.4

a career's

0:38.1

worth of hard-earned wisdom. Probing the moral heart that beats at the core of medicine,

0:42.9

we will hear stories that are by turns heartbreaking, amusing, inspiring, challenging,

0:47.7

and enlightening. We welcome anyone curious about why doctors do what they do. Join us, as we think

0:54.1

out loud about what illness and

0:55.8

healing can teach us about some of life's biggest questions.

1:02.2

There is something uniquely haunting about many neurological diseases.

1:07.9

These conditions often don't just affect the body. They reshape the very foundation of who we are.

1:15.8

Our memories, our personalities, our language, all of it lives in the brain. So when the brain

1:23.7

begins to fail, the boundaries between illness and identity start to blur.

1:29.3

In a very real sense, the person we know begins to fade even before their life has ended.

1:37.0

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. John Rhee, a neuroancoologist and palliative care physician

1:43.8

at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical

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