How Humanites Make Better Surgeons

Episode 53: Dr. Seymour Schwartz

Seymour Schwartz, MD, is a ninety-year-old pioneer in medicine and the longtime editor of the world’s leading surgery textbook, Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery. 2017 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the book’s publication. In his “post-op” life, as he calls it, Dr. Schwartz has become a cartographer and has delved deeply into the Humanities.