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.

Neurosurgery is one of the most precise and demanding fields in medicine. It requires

absolute technical mastery in a surgical field where a millimeter's difference

can decide lifelong disability or a life completely restored.

But what happens when a surgeon, trained to be objective and detached, experiences deep personal

loss?

How does that change the way they see their patients, and how does it reshape the way they practice medicine?

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Joseph Stern, who goes by Jody, a neurosurgeon, and the author of

Grief Connects Us, and Neurosurgeon's Lessons on Love, Loss, and Compassion.

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