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 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.

Our guest on today's episode is Dr. Caesar Padilla, a first-generation Mexican-American from Northern California. His parents emigrated from the Mexican state of Jalisco, settling in the Bay Area in the 1970s,

where they worked in local factories. Dr. Padilla spent every summer of his childhood in Mexico,

where his passion and inspiration for becoming a doctor was ignited.

A graduate of University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry,

Dr. Padilla is now double fellowship trained from Harvard Medical School in critical Care Medicine and Obstetric Anesthesiology, with additional

training in Critical Care Ecicardiography. His research interests include Critical Care and Obstetrics

and addressing inequities in maternal and Obstetric care. Dr. Padilla also serves as a chief

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