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Healers Part 3, Assigning Names to Illness

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Air date: September 25, 2011

Host: Barbara Lewis

Men's & Women's Health Medical Edcuation
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Interview: David Schenck, PhD, research assistant professor, Center for Biomedical Ethics & Society
Larry Churchill, PhD, Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society
Vanderbilt University Medical Center



We continue, now, with our series of conversations with Drs. David Schenk and Larry Churchill, discussing their new book, Healers: Extraordinary Clinicians at Work.

This week the authors explain why one of the most powerful things a doctor can do is assign a name to what’s wrong with their patients.