How Can We Face Suffering? | Inspirit Season 2 - Episode 10

Season 2 Episode 10: On Suffering with Dr. Kristin CollierIn this episode, Fr. Thomas and Anthony are joined by Kristin Collier, MD, FACP, to discuss suffering. Kristin shares her own personal encounter with Christ and how it shaped her understanding of suffering. She reflects on the need for physicians to care for mind, body, and soul, and how modern medicine can often reduce the human person to the physical body alone. Drawing on her experience, Kristin explains how a holistic, Christian approach to suffering can lead to better patient outcomes. She also discusses how our view of suffering influences end-of-life care. Together, they explore how the Christian understanding of suffering offers true hope through the person of the Risen Christ. References: Lucy Grealy - Autobiography of a Face - https://a.co/d/221JdibDame Cicely Saunders - St. Christopher's Hospice - https://www.stchristophers.org.uk/about/damecicelysaunders/Narrative Medicine - Columbia University - https://sps.columbia.edu/news/bridging-science-and-storytelling-narrative-medicine-alums-mission-humanize-health-care?program_id=406On Euthanasia - Kristin Collier - https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-eds/michigan-medicine-should-remember-its-best-not-its-worst/Religio Medici - https://thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-32/religio-mediciAbout our guest - Kristin Collier, MD, FACPKristin M. Collier, MD, FACP is an associate professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor Michigan where she serves as the director of the University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion. She is also an associate program director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of Michigan where she oversees the primary care track. She received her medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed her internship, residency, and chief residency at The University of Michigan Hospitals. Her academic interests are in the overlap of spirituality, religion and medicine and her peer reviewed work has been published inhigh-impact journals such as JAMA Internal Medicine, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and the British Medical Journal. She also has had writings published in Notre Dame’s Church Life Journal, Theopolis, America Magazine, Public Discourse and the New York Times. She is also a wife and the proud mother of four sons.Credits: Audio/Video - Iva Mulloth, Isaiah ThomasStudio Manager: Josh ThomasEditing & Social Media: Joseph Abraham - https://www.josephaabraham.com/