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J.B. and I have had some conversations via e-mail about how to accomplish this. He's interested in compiling a clearinghouse for such blogs. He's also putting together a medicine and literature course at his university for the upcoming fall semester. Stay tuned.
Commented May 22, 2011 on Marginal Notes: Literary medical weblogs at Cell 2 Soul: The Humane Health Care Blog
Marginal Notes: Literary medical weblogs
The Doctor by Sir Luke Fildes, 1887 There is much more to the art of healing than just closing a surgical incision, dressing a wound or writing a prescription. Medical practice is after all the stuff of life; and because literature historically has been an attempt to capture the essence of w...
Simple harmonic motion resonates with the pulse of life.
Commented Mar 25, 2011 on Melodies of Healing and Caring at Cell 2 Soul: The Humane Health Care Blog
Melodies of Healing and Caring
Recently, I was visiting Kauai, that magical Pacific island, and some friends took me to their favorite Indian restaurant in Kapaa town. There, I chanced to meet my old friend, Tim Lee, an ophthalmologist and an accomplished pianist. During our brief conversation, he told me about work he’s be...
Lovely rendition, David.
Each life, a circle, intertwined;
Twice bless't:
Bless't at birth,
And bless't at death.
Commented Oct 6, 2010 on The Name of it is Autumn I at Cell 2 Soul: The Humane Health Care Blog
The Name of it is Autumn I
"Spring and Fall," (to a young child) by Gerard Manley Hopkins has always resonated with me. Like this season, it is ineffably beautiful, yet suffused with sadness. (You can click on embedded album to enlarge photos if you want, then click on "Full Screen" and hit play button to see slideshow) ...
Your wilderness experiences bring to mind those of Thoreau. As a young man he explored the same country--the New England landscape as well as the landscape of his soul.
In "A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers" Thoreau wrote: "I was up early to see the daybreak....As the light in the east steadily increased, it revealed to me more clearly the new world into which I had risen in the night, the new terra firma perchance of my future life....It was such a country as we might see in dreams, with all the delights of paradise."
Commented Jul 7, 2010 on At Play in the Woods of New England at Cell 2 Soul: The Humane Health Care Blog
At Play in the Woods of New England
The year is 1977 and Art Brownstein, a Southern California surfer dude has just finished his first year of med school on the East Coast. He recently resurrected the journal of his escape to the New England wilderness. Much has changed in the past thirty-three years, but the fastness and fasc...
The Emerging Science of Narrative Medicine
Posted Jan 3, 2010 at HumaneMedicine
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