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“Sharing Our Past — Shaping Our Future” Since 1974 |
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How Do Stories Help Us Heal? |
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How Do Stories Help Us Heal? Read and discuss stories of medicine, healing, and lived experience with health professionals and community members
Wednesdays, 5:30—7:00 pm, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington November 19, January 21, February 18, March 18 |
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Office in Montpelier
11 Loomis Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05602 802.262.2626 Fax: 802.262.2620 E-mail: info@vermonthumanities.org |
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Health care professionals and community members are invited to explore the relationship between medicine and lived experience with Literature & Medicine, a humanities reading and discussion program including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Free, accessible to persons with disabilities, and open to the public. Books and materials available on loan in advance. Led by VHC Scholar Suzi Wizowaty. Presented in collaboration with the Vermont Board of Medical Practice. For more information, contact Bill Wargo, 802.657.4220.
NOVEMBER 19 November 19 ~ Atul Gawande, “When Doctors Make Mistakes,” from Complications; Atul Gawande, “The Malpractice Mess,” The New Yorker, 11/14/2005; Kevin Sack, “Doctors Say ‘I’m Sorry,’ Before ‘See You in Court’,” The New York Times, 5/20/08 January 21 Jerome Groopman, “What’s the Trouble?: How Doctors Think,” The New Yorker, 1/29/07; Frank Huyler, “A Difference of Opinion,” from The Blood of Strangers; Frank Huyler, “Liar,” from The Blood of Strangers FEBRUARY 18 Marianne Paget, “The Work of Talk,” from A Complex Sorrow; Adam Haslett, “The Good Doctor,” from You Are Not a Stranger Here; Walter Hard, “Socialized Medicine” (poem) MARCH 18 Neil Calman, “No One Needs to Know,” from Narrative Matters; W. Richard Boyte, “Casey’s Legacy,” from Narrative Matters; Rachel Naomi Remen, “Professionals Don’t Cry,” “Who is That Masked Man?,” and “Kissing the Boo-Boo,” from Kitchen Table Wisdom |
