On Moral Injury and Emotions in Medicine
“The Doctor’s Art” is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google, Stitcher, and Podchaser. As one of the most prolific and acclaimed physician-writers today, Danielle Ofri, MD, is the author of […]
Finding Meaning After Loss
“The Doctor’s Art” is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google, Stitcher, and Podchaser. In 1969, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross identified the five stages of dying in her book, On Death and Dying. […]
Air Force Mom Faces Advanced Breast Cancer
Defending their country using the most innovative tools and methods available is what the warriors in Melinda’s family have always done. In the 1980s, Melinda was working as an Air Force procurement officer in North Dakota when she met her husband who, like her father, flew B-52 bombers. Spending three years in Germany and relocating […]
Reimagining Aging and Later Life
“The Doctor’s Art” is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google, Stitcher, and Podchaser. Advances in modern medicine mean a greater proportion of people today will live well into old age […]
Opinion | FDA Can Make Us Healthier Than ‘Healthy’
There’s been a lot of buzz over FDA’s move to redefine what can be labeled a “healthy” food. In a proposed rulemaking rolled out on the morning of the historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health last month, FDA made some hefty claims about this long-awaited initiative. The agency predicted that redefining which […]
Man of Science, Man of Faith
“The Doctor’s Art” is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google, Stitcher, and Podchaser. The Human Genome Project was a 13-year-long international effort to map and sequence all of the genes […]
Opinion | ‘Sit Down, Shut Up and Sign, Don’t Make Waves’: What We Heard This Week
“Some nursing homes and chains will hire medical directors to just do what I call the three S’s: Sit down. Shut up and sign. Don’t make waves.” — Karl Steinberg, MD, immediate past president of the Society for Post-Acute and Long Term Care Medicine, on a proposed bill requiring all 15,000 Medicare-approved nursing homes to […]
Wrangling Medicare: A New Vision
“The Doctor’s Art” is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google, Stitcher, and Podchaser. With around 63 million beneficiaries, Medicare is the single largest provider of health insurance in the U.S. […]
Terror, Joy, Triumph: Learning Resilience as a Pediatric Neurosurgeon
“The Doctor’s Art” is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google, Stitcher, and Podchaser. Pediatric neurosurgeons manage some of the most complex diseases in children, operating on the delicate and precious […]
Coping With a Deadly Prognosis
“The Doctor’s Art” is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google, Stitcher, and Podchaser. On New Year’s Eve in 2020, Katie Coleman was diagnosed with metastatic oncocytoma, a type of kidney […]