When Stanford physician Bryant Lin was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer, a friend gave him one piece of advice about his own prognosis that he still credits with how he&#39;s lived every day since.Bryant Lin is a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Director of Medical Humanities and the Arts at Stanford, a fourth-generation physician who spent two decades in primary care before his own stage four diagnosis in 2024. He built a medical school class around his experience that drew coverage from the New York Times and CBS Mornings, and he&#39;s the author of <a href="https://amzn.to/3SoiXkp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sunshine: An Exploration of Living When You Are Dying</a>.In this conversation, you&#39;ll explore:<ul><li>The advice from a fellow doctor that changed how Bryant thinks about his own prognosis, and why he stopped looking at the numbers everyone else obsesses over</li><li>A simple filter he now uses to decide which commitments are worth keeping, and what needs to go</li><li>Why he changed very little, even after learning how much less time he likely had</li><li>Why he chose to teach a Stanford class, narrating his own cancer journey, while going through chemo in real time</li><li>What a good life means, once you learn you have a lot less time to live it.</li></ul>It&#39;s a conversation for anyone asking themselves what&#39;s actually worth their time, whether or not a doctor has given them a reason to ask.You can find Bryant at: <a href="https://www.bryantlin.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryant-lin-b7520a10/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> | <a href="https://www.goodlifeproject.com/podcast/how-to-live-with-terminal-illness-bryant-lin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Episode Transcript</a>Check out our sponsors and resources: <a href="https://www.goodlifeproject.com/sponsors/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Visit Our Sponsor Page</a><hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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