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.

Life can be hard, sometimes unbearably so. In these moments, it's all too natural to ask the question, what makes life worth living?

This question so central to philosophy since ancient times is what we explore in this episode,

featuring Nick Riggle, a professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.

Nick is the author of several books, most recently 2022s, this beauty, a philosophy of

being alive. Over the course of our conversation we discuss aesthetics. of we successfully or otherwise have attempted to find meaning in life, why finding beauty and

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