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 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.

Storytelling is the oldest medical technology.

So claims our guest on this episode, Laurel Brautman, an acclaimed author and the writer in residence at

Stanford School of Medicine. Laurel certainly offers a uniquely qualified

perspective on the matter, having grown up in a medical family, and now mentoring clinicians everywhere to help them fulfill their writing goals.

She received her doctorate in history and anthropology of science from MIT in her most recent work is a

2023 memoir titled What Looks Like Bravery, an epic journey through loss to love.

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