Hi, I'm Henry Bear.

And I'm Tyler Johnson.

And you're listening to The Doctors Art, a podcast that explores meaning in medicine.

Throughout our medical training and career, we have pondered, what makes medicine meaningful?

Can a stronger understanding of this meaning create better doctors?

How can we build healthcare institutions that nurture the doctor-patient

connection? What can we learn about the human condition from accompanying our patients in times of

suffering? In seeking answers to these questions, we meet with deep thinkers working across health

care, from doctors and nurses to patients and health care executives, those who have collected a career's

worth of hard-earned wisdom. Probing the moral heart that beats at the core of medicine, we

will hear stories that are by turns heartbreaking, amusing, inspiring, challenging, and

enlightening. We welcome anyone curious about why doctors do what they do. Join us as we think

out loud about what illness and

healing can teach us about some of life's biggest questions.

Medicine is often framed as a meritocracy, where intelligence, hard work, and dedication

dictate success. But we also know that institutions of medicine are

shaped by histories of exclusion, bias, and systemic inequities. And for clinicians coming from

marginalized backgrounds, the journey is not just about learning the science. It's also about

learning an entirely different set of rules, rules that are unspoken and

unwritten but deeply felt.

For Dr. Damon Tweedy, this struggle was deeply personal.

Raised in a working class, all-black neighborhood, medicine once felt worlds away.

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