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.

In medicine, we are trained to fight for life, to extend it, preserve it, and restore it.

But sometimes the goal shifts from curing to comforting.

That, in brief, is the essence of palliative care. It compels us to ask what it means to truly

care for a person at the end of life, not as a failure of medicine, but as a profound act of

love. In this episode, we enter a space

where time slows down, where every moment is cherished, and where medicine is tantamount

to presence, dignity, and grace. George Mark Children's House in California is the first

freestanding pediatric palliative care center in the United States, a place where

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