The Hippocratic Society Podcast

The Hippocratic Society is a community of physicians that forms and sustains clinicians in the practice of good medicine. In the podcast series, we reflect on and grow together in what it means to be a good physician. Podcasts are released every two weeks, and each episode has two parts: Part 1- Interviews of doctors and philosphers discussing medicine, life, and beyond Part 2- Shorter, practical episodes on bringing the ideas from Part 1 into daily life Reach out to contact@hippsoc.org for any questions, comments, or suggestions. We hope you enjoy our show!!

The Hippocratic Society Podcast is a health podcast hosted by The Hippocratic Society, with 30 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

The Hippocratic Society hosts The Hippocratic Society Podcast, a health show with 30 episodes published.

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  Hope and Truth in Narrative Oncology: Dr. Brian Quaranta Abstract Session - HippSoc Conference 2026

  Aug 10, 202622 min

  Recorded at the 2nd Annual Hippocratic Society Conference, this talk works through the question using two texts Dr. Quaranta teaches at Duke: Stephen Jay Gould's essay "The Median Isn't the Message," written after his own diagnosis with an incurable cancer, and Akira Kurosawa's 1952 film Ikiru , in which a Tokyo bureaucrat is lied to about his stomach cancer and must decide what to do with the months he has left.

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  Hope in Medicine: A Fireside Chat with Dr. John Rhee and Dr. Farr Curlin - Hippsoc Conference 2026

  Jul 28, 202648 min

  At the Hippsoc 2026 Conference, Dr. John Rhee and Dr. Farr Curlin guide the audience to dive more deeply on the subject of hope in the medical practice and how it might look day to day. In this lecture, the presenters discuss a clinical experience and shed light on how we might generate hope practically in the clinical setting.

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  Hope Amidst Challenges in Medicine Today - Dr. Ben Frush & Dr. Brewer Eberly

  Jul 17, 202651 min

  At the 2026 Hippocratic Society Conference, Dr. Ben Frush and Dr. Brewer Eberly discuss how one can hope amidst the pressures and difficulties of the practice of medicine. How can physicians be hopeful in the face of rising distrust in practitioners, bureaucratic pressures, time constraints, and the looming force of artificial intelligence? How can moral friendship sustain us? Drawing from philosophers and artist alike, Frush and Eberly offer a look at what it might mean to practice hope as a clinician.

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  13.2 - Sincerity

  May 25, 202620 minS0

  <p>In this episode, John and Michael lay out the nature of the virtue of sincerity and why it is important for physicians to be sincere, both to their patients and to themselves.</p>

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  13.1 - Moral Bioenhancement and why we still need virtues with Dr. Fabrice Jotterand

  Apr 27, 202650 minS0

  <p>Is coffee moral bioenchancement? What does it mean to enhance our moral actions and what is medicine's role in that? Are the virtues still relevant in a world of enhancement?</p><p><br></p><p>Join us as with discuss these questions and much more with Dr. Fabrice Jotterand, a leading bioethicist at Oregon Health and Science University. </p><p><br></p><p>Check out his edited book on this topic: The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement (Routledge, 2023). </p><p><br></p>

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