297: Comfort Always: Why Technology Can’t Replace the Human Art of Healing, With Alan R. Cohen, MD

297: Comfort Always: Why Technology Can’t Replace the Human Art of Healing, With Alan R. Cohen, MD

May 23, 2026 · 22 min · Season 6 · Episode 297

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Dr. Pelè interviews Dr. Alan Cohen about the importance of maintaining the human aspect of healing in an age dominated by technology.

After 40 years as a pediatric neurosurgeon, Dr. Alan Cohen has seen some of medicine’s most extraordinary miracles and most heartbreaking moments. In this episode of The Human Side of Leadership in Healthcare, Dr. Pelè sits down with Dr. Cohen, Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins and author of Comfort Always: Healing in the Age of Technology, to explore a question healthcare must continue asking: As medicine advances, what must we never lose sight of about the human side of heali...

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