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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September 11, 2023