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.

If you could be plugged into a machine that simulated the perfect experience,

limitless joy, deep connection, a sense of purpose, yet you knew it wasn't real. Would you choose

to stay plugged in? This isn't just a philosophical exercise or a plot of a science fiction movie.

As our lives become increasingly digitized, our relationships filtered through screens, our

emotions managed by algorithms, our attention parceled out to feeds and notifications,

we are confronted with a deeper question.

What does it mean to have an authentic experience anymore?

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