Physicians often describe the best part of medicine as being the opportunity to walk alongside patients in their medical care. Dr. Shohei Burns is an expert in shepherding patients through their health, a skill developed from his work as a clinical research coordinator for patients facing terminal cancer. Join Dr. Burns and host Dr. Dawn Gross as they reflect on preparing for mortality, appreciating the lives of patients outside their symptoms, and creating spaces at the hospital for both patients and physicians to process grief.

UCSF Heart Sounds is a production of Dying to Talk, sponsored by the UCSF Health and Wellbeing Grant. Each episode creates a space for doctors to reflect on the rarely discussed experience, the first patient death. Learn more at dyingtotalk.com. Music created and generously provided by Craig Minowa of Cloud Cult.

Doctors are implicitly trained that death is a failure. So, how do we persist and not become depressed in the face of the reality of mortally? In this episode, host Dr. Dawn Gross talks with Hospitalist and creator of The Nocturnists, Dr. Emily Silverman, as they reflect on the science of storytelling and art of medicine. Tune in to hear about the ticking-clock of our healthcare system and how Dr. Silverman now sees carrying for people as they die as some of the most satisfying work in medicine.

UCSF Heart sounds is a production of Dying To Talk, sponsored by the UCSF Health and Wellbeing Grant. Each episode creates a space for doctors to reflect on the universal though rarely discussed experience in medical training, the first patient death. Learn more at dyingtotalk.com.

Music created and generously provided by Craig Minowa of Cloud Cult.

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Dying To Talk is proud to present a special series for the University of California at San Francisco : UCSF Heart Sounds. The term "Heart Sounds" is medical jargon referring to the different types of "lub dub" sounds the heart makes when listening through a stethoscope. It also means the sounds our souls make when listening deeply with the heart. Created and hosted by hospice and palliative medicine specialist, Dawn Gross, MD, PhD, each episode features a physician at different stages of their career talking about the universally experienced moment in medical training: the first patient death as a doctor. Though every physician is as unique as the story they share, reflecting a diversity of specialty, spiritual, racial and gender identities, every conversation ultimately illuminates our shared humanity, such that Dying To Talk: UCSF Heart Sounds becomes the stethoscope for listening to the heart of what matters most. Want to share your own story? Visit Dying To Talk to learn how you can join a "Huggle."