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.

Hello, everyone. It's been a few weeks since our last episode. As chance would have it,

both Tyler and I have been dealing with particularly bad bouts of the cold recently.

It are finally on the mend.

Naturally, this meant a delay in our releases.

In hindsight, it actually is remarkable that until this point, the two of us had been able to keep pace with weekly releases over the past three years. It's thanks to you,

our listeners, who keep us going. Anyway, to our current episode, if you have followed our show

for some time, you will recall the many techno-optimists we've spoken with. Healthcare leaders who

believe that precision medicine and emerging

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