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. In today's world, the idea of identifying your values is so ubiquitous, tossed around from corporate

mission statements to self-help books that it can seem trivialized to the point of

meaninglessness. But in this episode Ira Bedzo reminds us it doesn't have to

be that way. Explorations of personal values can be an inspiring, holistic, and thought-provoking process that

transforms everything that we do, from finding joy and work to building fulfilling relationships.

Aira is the executive director of the Emory Purpose Project, an initiative at Emory University that provides opportunities

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