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.

Many of the world's best physicians find it surprisingly difficult to answer the question,

why are you in medicine? In the long, arduous journey of medical training

or within the technocratically minded health care system, one can easily get lost in the life of the head

and become estranged from the life of the heart. Our guest in this episode is Dr. Brewer-Eberley,

a third-generation family physician and a fellow at Duke

Divinity School's Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative. Dr. Eberley grew up listening to

his physician family members discuss their work and was drawn to how life's biggest questions

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