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The Healing Heart of Medicine with Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen November 12, 2013

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen

Medicine was never meant to be a collection of procedures and tools. Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, physician and UCSF professor, describes her course The Healer’s Art, now taught in half of American medical schools, which helps first-year students reclaim the values of compassion, service, and human connection that drew them to medicine in the first place.

Paradoxes of Life Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Roberta Maria Atti

Every gain hides a hidden loss. Armand DiMele and co-host Roberta Maria Atti work through paradoxes that riddle ordinary life: fame steals privacy, promotion costs friendship, and bariatric surgery that cures overeating often triggers alcoholism. Medical examples extend to antibiotics breeding resistant bacteria and asthma drugs correlating with rising asthma deaths.