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.

For all the deeply rewarding moments medicine offers, it is also a career that is often

intensely challenging on both systemic and personal levels. Our guest in this episode is Caroline Elton, an occupational

psychologist who has devoted her career to counseling doctors and medical trainees in the

National Health Service and various medical schools in the UK.

She is the author of Also Human, the Inner Lives of Doctors,

which discusses the physical, mental, and emotional toll of medical training and practice.

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