Hi, I'm Henry Bear.

And I'm Tyler Johnson.

And you're listening to The Doctor's 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. The Human Genome Project was a 13 year-long international effort to map and sequence all of the genes in the human genome.

It was one of the most ambitious and exciting scientific research endeavors in human history,

with wide-ranging implications on our understanding of diseases and the discovery of new therapies.

Leading the project was Dr. Francis Collins, who was also director of the National Institutes of Health from 2009 to 2021.

In addition to being one of the foremost physician scientists of our time, Dr Collins is also well known for

his bold defense of his Christian faith and for his steadfast promotion of dialogue on the relationship

between science and religion. His book, The Language of God, was an international bestseller.

In this episode, Dr. Collins joins us to share his remarkable path in medicine,

the origins and evolution of his faith, and his perspectives on the moral mission of medicine.

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