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.

Over the past year we have spoken with more than 50 clinicians about what makes

their work meaningful. But in this episode we are changing things up and

speaking with someone who has been

disenchanted what their experience is working in medicine. Our guest is Dr.

Argybun Salas, a minimally invasive and bariatric surgeon who conducts research on gender equity and implicit bias in medicine.

At Sanford Hospital, she advises initiatives to promote physician well-being and diversity. During the COVID-19 pandemic,

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