What Does it Mean to be ‘Good’ Physician? Featuring Lydia Dugdale and John Yoon

Dr. Lydia Dugdale, MD is a New York City internal medicine primary care doctor and medical ethicist. She is associate professor of medicine and director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University. Prior to her 2019 move to Columbia, she was the Associate Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics and founding Co-Director of the Program for Medicine, Spirituality, and Religion at Yale School of Medicine. She edited Dying in the Twenty-First Century, a volume that articulates a bioethical framework for a contemporary art of dying, and is author of The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom (forthcoming from HarperCollins Summer 2020), a book about a mostly forgotten ethical tradition and text that emerged in response to the Black Plague in the late middle ages: Ars Moriendi, “the art of dying.”

As an academic hospitalist and medical educator, Dr. Yoon’s primary research interests involve the field of virtue ethics, vocation/calling in medicine, and the moral and professional formation of medical students and resident trainees. He was co-investigator on the Project on the Good Physician, a recently completed longitudinal study of medical students funded by the New Science of Virtues Project at The University of Chicago. Dr. Yoon is also Associate Faculty at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Faculty Scholar for the Program on Medicine and Religion, and Junior Faculty Scholar of the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence at The University of Chicago