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 health care 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 heart-breaking, 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. From Tanzania to India to India, from Tibet, to Antarctica, our guest in this episode, Dr Jonathan Reisman, has practiced medicine in truly diverse regions of the world.

Dr Reisman's talents and passions are unparalleled in their variety.

He is, among many things, an emergency physician, naturalist, food writer, travel writer, and wilderness

survival expert. He is the author of The Unseen Body, an exploration of the human anatomy in all of its miraculous, mundane, repulsive, and surprising

glory, presented through the eyes of a lifelong adventurer. In this episode, Dr. Reisman shares his experiences

traveling through the most remote areas of the world. What his travels have

taught him about health and illness, the impact of emerging digital technologies on the doctor-patient relationship, and much more.

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