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.

The creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965 enabled millions of Americans to meaningfully

access health care for the first time, and dramatically

increased demand for physicians. Three months after the passage of Medicare and Medicaid,

the Heart Cellar Immigration and Nationality Act enabled tens of thousands of immigrant

physicians to migrate to the U.S. Since then, the government has relied on immigrant physicians to care for its citizens,

with immigrant physicians comprising between 25 and 40 percent of the physician workforce

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