Medicine and Compassion

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Medicine and Compassion
Interviewer(s): 
Steve Paulson
Anne Strainchamps
Guest(s): 
Zorba Paster
Susan Ehrlich
James Orbinski
Danielle Ofri
Andrew Weil
01.20.2012

Modern medicine can treat disease at a molecular—or even atomic – level.  And today’s surgeons can fix things the naked eye can’t even see.  But there’s one thing every patient wants that no technology in the world can provide: compassion.  In this hour, doctors talk about the feeling side of their profession. One of the Dalai Lama’s personal physicians talks about scouting for physicians with heart to treat His Holiness. And a former president of Doctors Without Borders remembers the devastation of serving during the Rwanda genocide.

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