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.

Few people would dispute the assertion that vision is just about our most important sense.

Certainly, at least from a neurophysiological perspective, more than half of the human brain is dedicated to processing vision.

But it also enables us to meaningfully interact with the world and with the people in it,

and allows us to engage in many of the activities that bring us the most joy in life.

Joining us in this episode is Dr. Michael Amarmer, Professor Emeritus and former chair of

Ophthalmology at Stanford University.

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