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. To the best of our knowledge, humans appear to be unique among animals in our awareness of mortality.

At least, in our capacity for existential reflection about death in an abstract, cultural, and symbolic sense.

For better or worse, this capacity comes packaged with profound and complex psychological experiences

from existential anxiety and our search for meaning to our

struggle with grief and a yearning for the spiritual.

Our guest on this episode is Dr. Rachel Clark,

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