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.

When a religious person is isolated from their community, whether due to hospitalization

or military service, they can often rely on a chaplain for spiritual support. But where does a

non-religious person turn when facing the same circumstances and what tools do they have for

meaning-making? Our guest is Greg Epstein, humanist chaplain at Harvard and MIT, an author of the New York

Times bestselling book, Good Without God. As a humanist

chaplain, Greg has spent his career building ethical communities that are united around the

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