He Taught Me to Be a Doctor, He was Not a Doctor

Podcast: HuMed with David Spiro, MD · David Spiro, MD | Doctor Podcast Network

Opublikowano: 2026-06-24

In this deeply moving episode of HuMed, Dr. David Spiro speaks with Dr. Julia Bruckner, a pediatric emergency physician, writer, and Director of Faculty Well-Being at the University of Colorado. Dr. Bruckner shares how her father — a minister, humanist, advocate, and witness to suffering — taught her lessons about healing that medicine alone often cannot teach. Together, they explore what it means to give devastating news, sit with suffering, care for families in crisis, support physicians after trauma, and bring humanity back into medicine. This conversation moves through grief, cancer, hospice, physician wellness, pediatric emergency medicine, and the quiet power of prese...