Awareness of Our Own Mortality Makes Us Better Doctors

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Irvin Yalom, MD Dr. Irvin Yalom, professor emeritus of psychiatry at Stanford University and the author of several highly acclaimed booksspeaks about how striving for direct engagement with others opens us to the many possibilities of life enrichment. Compassionate connections combined with wisdom of great thinkers allow us to overcome the terror of death that is the theme of his new book Staring at the Sun. Join host Dr. Maurie Pickard.