Hi, I'm Henry Bear.

And I'm Tyler Johnson.

And you're listening to The Doctor's 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.

When we hear stories of people with cancer, the stories often end when the treatments end,

and either the battle has been won and the cancer cured, or in more tragic

circumstances, the cancer takes the patient's life.

But for many patients who have survived, that's not where the story ends.

Cancer has fundamentally transformed their lives.

How can they reintegrate with their social connections?

How are they to make sense of the exosentially threatening experience they have gone through?

That's where cancer survivorship comes in.

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