Medicine and Morality

Medicine and Morality

Robert Truog, a Harvard Medical School professor at Boston Children’s Hospital and director of the HMS Center for Bioethics, teaches doctors and nurses to become more aware of the ethical decisions they make every day—including the conscious and unconscious biases that shape the words they use and the way they frame conversations with patients and families. This kind of “microethics” education aims to help doctors and patients alike achieve more compassionate care.

And in this week’s abstract, a new research tool from the lab of HMS geneticist Stephen Elledge can reveal a person’s entire viral history from a single drop of blood.

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Episoder(42)

On Cancer's Case

On Cancer's Case

As a teenager, Joan Brugge expected to become a math teacher. Then her sister developed a fatal brain tumor, and Brugge shifted to devote her career to uncovering the fundamental workings of cancer.No...

25 Aug 202029min

Road Less Traveled

Road Less Traveled

Note: This interview was recorded in 2019. For updates on Sequist's work during the COVID-19 pandemic, read our new Q&A.Traveling between New York, Albuquerque and Taos Pueblo while growing up and tra...

5 Mai 202032min

Neither Dazed nor Confused

Neither Dazed nor Confused

Note: This interview was recorded in 2019. For updates on Inouye's work during the coronavirus pandemic and the link between COVID-19 and delirium, read our new Q&A.Each year, more than 7 million hosp...

23 Apr 202039min

From Harvard to Hollywood

From Harvard to Hollywood

Neal Baer is an award-winning television writer and producer—and a Harvard Medical School-trained pediatrician (MD ’96). Through his pioneering work on hit shows such as ER and Law and Order: Special ...

19 Jan 201844min

Chew on This

Chew on This

Dentists take care of our mouths, and doctors take care of the rest of us—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that oral health and overall health are inextricably linked. In this month’s podcast, den...

24 Feb 201720min

Blunt Scrutiny

Blunt Scrutiny

Staci Gruber, HMS associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Core at McLean Hospital, describes what she and other researchers are learning about the eff...

21 Okt 201623min

Challenging Common Knowledge

Challenging Common Knowledge

Economist and physician Anupam “Bapu” Jena, the Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor of Health Care Policy at HMS, analyzes compelling health care issues ranging from physician behavior to prescriptio...

12 Aug 201626min

Connecting the Dots

Connecting the Dots

Jessica Halem, program manager of the LGBT Office within the Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership at HMS, shares some of the ways the Harvard Medical School community is working to...

22 Jun 201621min

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