Dalai Lama’s doctor wants more compassion in medicine
Clip: 10/27/2015 | 6m 20s
Dalai Lama’s American doctor wants more compassion in medicine
Before he was a personal physician to the Dalai Lama, Dr. Barry Kerzin never imagined that a professional trip to Tibet would lead him down a decades-long path studying Buddhism and meditation. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro talks to Kerzin in India about his feeling that compassion and empathy are essential to medical training.
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Dalai Lama’s doctor wants more compassion in medicine
Clip: 10/27/2015 | 6m 20s
Before he was a personal physician to the Dalai Lama, Dr. Barry Kerzin never imagined that a professional trip to Tibet would lead him down a decades-long path studying Buddhism and meditation. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro talks to Kerzin in India about his feeling that compassion and empathy are essential to medical training.
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