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 healthcare 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.

Many medical trainees are driven to medicine by their moral or religious principles, only to find

that they are expected to check their principles at the patient's

door. When this happens, physicians and patients may lose the opportunity for deeper, more

healing relationships. Our guest on this episode is Dr. Farr Curlin, a hospitalist and palliative

care physician at Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Curlin holds joint appointments in the

Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine, and Duke Divinity School,

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