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.

What does it take to lead a health department with a budget of more than 50 billion dollars

overseeing the health of nearly 20 million Americans?

Here to tell us about that is Dr. Narav Shah, who was the 15th New York State Commissioner of Health from 2011 to 2014.

Today, Dr. Shah is a nationally recognized advocate of patient safety, health care innovation, and high quality low cost care, having variously served as the chief operating officer of Kaiser Permanente in Southern California, advisor to the CDC director, senior fellow of the

Institute of Health Improvement, and senior scholar at Stanford University's Clinical Excellence

Research Center.

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