Commentary by Jay Baruch, author of Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients and Other Strangers (Kent State University Press, 2007). Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director, Ethics Curriculum, at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University Question: What do you >> Read more
Category: The Artist Speaks
Connections
Commentary by Madge McKeithen, M.F.A., writer, and teacher of writing at The New School, New York City A poem…can uncover desires and appetites buried under the accumulating emergencies of our lives, the fabricated wants and needs we have had urged >> Read more
Writing And Medicine: Making It Up As You Go Along
Commentary by Perri Klass, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Journalism at New York University, and Medical Director of the national literacy program, Reach Out and Read Many many years ago, I think back when I was doing my >> Read more
A Psychiatrist and a Poet
Commentary by Ron Charach, M.D., Toronto psychiatrist, poet, and essayist. To be both a psychiatrist and a poet is either a dual calling or a double whammy, depending on what you choose to emphasize. Such a medical/literary hybrid has surely >> Read more
Grey Land: Soldiers on War
Commentary by Barry M. Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry In June and July of 2007, I spent a month in Iraq photographing and interviewing soldiers of the Army’s >> Read more
Toward a New Aesthetic of the Body
Commentary by Laura Ferguson, Artist working in New York City Can a deformed body be beautiful? Yes, through an artist’s eyes – and I believe art can help medicine to broaden its vision, and embrace a new aesthetic of the >> Read more