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.

We live in a culture that vilifies stress. Stress, we are told is unhealthy, both physiologically and emotionally, and something to be avoided at all cost.

But Stanford Health Psychologist Dr Kelly McGonagall believes that by suppressing or

ignoring it, we're missing out on the benefits of effective stress management.

Kelly is also a best-selling author whose work focuses on the mind-body connection and

the psychology of compassion and mindfulness. In this episode, Kelly shares the personal

experiences that led her to this work, the myths and misconceptions surrounding stress,

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