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.

Life can be hard when we are sick.

But even when we aren't, life can still wear us down in quiet, surprising ways.

In fact, major traumas are relatively rare,

and it's the moments when too many things go wrong at once, or we are exposed to prolonged periods of

stress that we fall into a spiral of exhaustion, fatigue, burnout, and hopelessness.

Vincent Derry is an author and health psychologist who explores the mundane struggles of everyday life.

His writings blend clinical insight, literary finesse, and wisdom drawn from philosophy and art

to illuminate how the wear and terror of life affect all of us and how we can navigate through it all.

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