This week on the Good Medicine Podcast, Dr. David Bearss sits down with Dr. Marshall Medley, a vascular surgeon, to talk about the challenges and responsibilities of practicing medicine today.Dr. Medley explains how surgeons are sometimes discouraged from taking on high-risk patients because of fear of lawsuits or hospital metrics — and what that means for people who need care the most. He also shares his own experience as a patient, and how it reshaped the way he approaches surgery by slowing down, listening, and treating people the way he wanted to be treated.Finally, Dr. Medley tells a moving story about providing care for a woman who couldn’t afford it, and why he believes we shouldn’t make it harder for people who are already doing their best.This episode is about more than surgery — it’s about humanity in medicine.Thank you to our sponsorsBioHive: https://www.biohive.comGalvan: https://galvan.sng.link/D4mh8/oe8k/littFollow Good Medicine PodcastInsta: https://www.instagram.com/good.medicine.podcast/ X: https://x.com/GoodMedicinePod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@good.medicine.podcast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/goodmedicinepodcast/