Ben Frush, MD, MA
Medical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Lead, The Good Physician
Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine
benjamin.frush@duke.edu

Ben Frush, MD, MA, is a hospitalist and palliative care physician who serves as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine. 

Dr. Frush attended the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill for medical school before completing his residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he also served as chief resident. He completed a fellowship in hospice and palliative medicine at UNC, before serving as the McDonald Agape Fellow in Bioethics at Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics.

As a scholar and educator, Dr. Frush's work centers on the ethics of medical training, end-of-life care, and the application of virtue ethics in contemporary clinical practice. His writing and research explore moral education in medical school and residency, the complexities of clinical ethics consultation, and the preservation of human flourishing amidst the rapidly shifting moral and technological landscape of modern healthcare.