A bioethicist explores how Silicon Valley’s pursuit of the beyond-healthy human raises questions about the purpose of medicine — and explains how disability ethics can keep doctors on track.

The former National Coordinator for Health IT explains how the EMR has been distorted by the fee-for-service model – and makes the case for value-based care.

A historian, a philosopher, and a palliative care physician explore the interplay of technology, suffering, and medicine – and argue for the value of embracing life as mystery.

An award winning author and primary care physician explains why her English and poetry classes were more relevant to her clinical work than her science classes.

A Stanford physician and his oncologist explore the nuances of hope and the value of spiritual practice in the context of a Stage IV lung cancer diagnosis. 

A gerontologist and New York Times best-selling author plots a path toward more joyful aging — one rich with renewal, connection, and purpose.

A third-generation family physician and fellow at Duke Divinity school’s Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative shares a first-hand experience with facing the difficult question – What does it mean to willingly receive the suffering of someone which you cannot fix?

A world expert in social ecology and well-being explains why novel experiences that bring both positive and negative emotions are a key ingredient to a fulfilling life.

Harvard’s humanist chaplain provides a non-religious framework for meaning making and illustrates how technology has become a religion of its own.

A hospitalist, palliative care physician, and professor at Duke Divinity School advocates for recentering medicine on a fundamental question: “What is Good?”

A Critical and Palliative Care physician shares how she came to embrace a more human approach to medicine — treat patients as you’d want your own loved ones to be treated.

An international leader in longevity and New York Times best-selling author shares his experience using data-driven narrative as a tool in the fraught field of public health — and offers a new vision for the patient-physician interaction.

The 2024 – 2025 president of the American Medical Association shares how a childhood injury propelled him to becoming a surgeon, how he navigates the polarization and politicalization of American medicine, and how all physicians can help shape the future of healthcare.

The Founding Dean of the new Alice Walton School of Medicine discusses her journey from gynecologic oncology to creating a medical school that focuses on empathy and prepares future physicians for the rapidly evolving healthcare landscape.

The Chief Clinical Officer of Google unpacks how artificial intelligence is transforming the work of doctors, raising urgent questions about ethics, empathy, and what it truly means to heal in an age of intelligent machines.

A cultural critic explores how the rise of digital life is eroding our capacity for real connection, embodied experience, and authentic healing—and why preserving our humanity in an age of simulation may be the most urgent challenge of all.

A neuro-oncologist and co-founder of the Hippocratic Society explores how brain diseases challenge our understanding of identity, the importance of embracing suffering in medicine, and why caring for patients requires both scientific insight and spiritual presence.

A neurosurgeon shares how losing his sister to leukemia completely changed his approach to medicine and how grief has the power to connect us in the most meaningful ways.

The president of the first free-standing pediatric palliative care center in the US shares her personal journey from child loss to leading a reformation in caring for children with serious illness.

A psychiatrist and noted author shares his personal experiences as a black doctor in America and explores the search for authenticity in a system that often demands conformity.