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.

There is something uniquely haunting about many neurological diseases.

These conditions often don't just affect the body. They reshape the very foundation of who we are.

Our memories, our personalities, our language, all of it lives in the brain. So when the brain

begins to fail, the boundaries between illness and identity start to blur.

In a very real sense, the person we know begins to fade even before their life has ended.

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. John Rhee, a neuroancoologist and palliative care physician

at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical

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