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The Doctor's Art

With Patients Until the End | Mimi Dunne, MD

The Doctor's Art

Henry Bair and Tyler Johnson

Medicine, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Philosophy

52.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

One aspect of the medical profession that doesn’t often garner a great deal of public attention is that of caring for patients who are dying. For Mimi Dunne, MD, the relief of suffering has been her life’s calling — specifically the mission of relieving mental and social suffering in the lives of terminal patients, and helping them and their families find solace and meaning as they face mortality. This week, we ask Dr. Dunne to share insights and lessons from her experience in palliative care...

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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.

0:13.1

What makes medicine meaningful?

0:15.0

Can a stronger understanding of this meaning

0:17.1

create better doctors?

0:18.7

How can we build health care institutions

0:20.5

that nurture the doctor-patient connection?

0:23.0

What can we learn about the human condition

0:25.0

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, from doctors and nurses to patients

0:34.8

and health care 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 heartbreaking, amusing, inspiring, challenging, and enlightening.

0:49.1

We welcome anyone curious about why doctors do what they do. Join us as we think out loud about what

0:55.0

illness and healing can teach us about life's biggest questions.

1:14.0

Our guess on today's on today's episode is Dr. Mimi Dunn, a pioneer in palliative medicine and end-of-life care in New York State, who was engaged in innovation to address suffering and improve the care of the dying. A graduate of St. Louis University School of Medicine,

1:17.0

Leymie completed her postgraduate education at the University of Chicago

1:21.0

and trained in mindfulness-based stress reduction at the University of Massachusetts.

1:24.4

She's board certified in emergency medicine as well as hospice and palliative medicine.

1:30.3

As medical director of Hudson Valley Hospice, Mimi founded the region's first palliative care program.

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