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.

Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us in the

marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight, helping us to discover what matters most.

So writes Frank Osteski, a respected Buddhist teacher and pioneer in end of life care.

Frank is the founder of the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco,

the first Buddhist hospice in America.

Over the course of his career, Frank has accompanied over 1,000 people through the dying process.

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