Summary: 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. Zorba Paster on Buddhism and Medicine; Susan Ehrlich: When the Patient is Your Father; James Orbinski on his Time with Doctors Without Borders; Danielle Ofri on Suicide and Medicine; Andrew Weil: A Doctor's Recipe for Happiness.
