Internist Dr. Robert Beck: "He Wasn't Worthy of the Care"

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

Opublikowano: 2026-09-01

Two attending physicians declared medical futility on a man in his late 40s. He was awake. He was begging for the ICU. He was begging for his mother. And the only doctor at his bedside that night was an intern on his second call shift. Dr. Robert Beck has carried that night for nineteen years. In his second appearance on HuMed, Dr. Beck tells the story of a patient at New Orleans' Charity Hospital in July 2007 — and what it taught him about pa...