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.
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- Aug 10, 2026
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- Jul 17, 2026
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Hope and Truth in Narrative Oncology: Dr. Brian Quaranta Abstract Session - HippSoc Conference 2026 (opens the original)
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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.
Hope in Medicine: A Fireside Chat with Dr. John Rhee and Dr. Farr Curlin - Hippsoc Conference 2026 (opens the original)
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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.
Hope Amidst Challenges in Medicine Today - Dr. Ben Frush & Dr. Brewer Eberly (opens the original)
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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 cl
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