Spirit and Change

After two episodes of Butterfly Arose in which I looked at the case of David Reimer, the boy who was raised as a girl through the experiences of both the patient and the doctor, I transitioned to a deeper look into the complex world of medicine. How do we minimize the likelihood of medical errors?

Episode 11 Taking the Complex World of Medicine Seriously Part 1 Using the book When We Do Harm by Danielle Ofri, MD I begin to look at the complex world of medicine and how we try to navigate it to get the best outcomes for everyone.

We humans are complicated beings, with the potential for doing both good and harm to each other and two the world in which we live. This is a story of racism, rebirth, courage and perseverance among other things.

How an 18th-Century Shipwreck Changed France’s Conversation About Race When a captain took on an illegal cargo of slaves, he couldn’t foresee the ramifications