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.

The second half of the 20th century saw monumental shifts in civil rights in the United States,

with the end of legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and

disenfranchisement, touching all parts of life from education to health care, to housing,

to marriage, and more. Judge David Tatel is a civil rights lawyer who has contributed to

key advancements in voting rights, educational equality, and disability rights.

He has served as director of the National Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law,

as director of the Office for Civil Rights during the Carter administration,

and as a federal judge on the D.C. Circuit, considered the second highest court in America,

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