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.

For over 50 years, the National Eye Institute or the NEI has been a driving force for cutting-edge vision research, education, and public health guidance.

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Michael Chang, the director of the NEI.

A Pediatric Ophthalmologist by training, Dr. Chang's work focuses on the application of biomedical informatics to

ophthalmology in areas ranging from telehealth to artificial intelligence to health data management.

Over the course of our conversation, Dr. Chang describes the elegant intricacies of the human

eye, shares what excites him most about digital health, discusses the urgent need for

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