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.

In recent years, Silicon Valley has imagined for us a new way of life, one where almost anyone

can be a 20- or 30-something-year-old with a supernatural glow,

toned physique, understated intelligence, and a superabundance of vitality. This is not reality

for most people, even for the 20- or 30-something-year-olds, but medicine and technology originally

intended to help people achieve

baseline help are increasingly being leveraged to close the gap. This raises the question,

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