Dr. Dominic Vachon, Director of the Ruth M. Hillebrand Center for Compassionate Care in Medicine at the University of Notre Dame, is back for a second episode to discuss the science of compassion, including how compassion or lack of it impacts both doctors and patients and what we can all do to be better at it.
Dr. Ashley Fernandes, associate director of the Center for Bioethics at the Ohio State University College of Medicine, covers the most important things to understand the debate about health care rights, including patient autonomy, physician conscience, and the right to medical care.
Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Kevin Majeres returns with more practical ways to successfully live with anxiety, this time focusing on the practice of mindfulness. Dr. Majeres talks about what mindfulness is, how it can help people overcome feelings of anxiety, and even how it can improve prayer.
Endocrinologist and diabetes researcher Dr. Paul Hruz talks all about diabetes including the different types, what causes them, why diabetes is on the rise, strategies for prevention, and the latest developments in treatment for both Type I and Type II.