Physician Literature
& Medicine Discussion Groups
Our program draws on
concepts developed by proponents of Literature and Medicine and Narrative
Medicine. Rita Charon, MD, PhD has elaborated many of the principles and
practices we follow. The abstract from her article in JAMA (2001;286:1897-1902)
captures the spirit of our program.
Narrative
Medicine: A Model for Empathy, Reflection, Profession, and Trust
The effective practice of medicine requires narrative competence, that
is, the ability to acknowledge, absorb, interpret, and act on the stories and
plights of others. Medicine practiced with narrative competence, called
narrative medicine, is proposed as a model for humane and effective medical
practice. Adopting methods such as close reading of literature and reflective
writing allows narrative medicine to examine and illuminate 4 of medicine's
central narrative situations: physician and patient, physician and self,
physician and colleagues, and physicians and society. With narrative
competence, physicians can reach and join their patients in illness, recognize
their own personal journeys through medicine, acknowledge kinship with and
duties toward other health care professionals, and inaugurate consequential
discourse with the public about health care. By bridging the divides that
separate physicians from patients, themselves, colleagues, and society,
narrative medicine offers fresh opportunities for respectful, empathic, and
nourishing medical care.
Wednesday, February 7,
2007
LDS Hospital
6:15
p.m. in Pugh Board Room
Play:
Washington Square, by Henry James
Facilitator: Brooke Hopkins
Our
Facilitator Brooke Hopkins writes: "Washington Square is a short early
novel by Henry James (an author whom, to my knowledge, we haven't discussed in
these sessions) that features a particularly interesting medical figure, the
father of the heroine, Catherine Sloper. Unlike James' later work, Washington
Square is short and quite accessible. It's also a perplexing and troubling
novel, one that I think you'll find quite interesting. I look forward to
discussing it with you.
" …During a
portion of the first half of the present century, and more particularly during
the latter part of it, there flourished and practiced in the city of New York a
physician who enjoyed perhaps an exceptional share of the consideration which,
in the United States, has always been bestowed upon distinguished members of
the medical profession. This profession in America has constantly been held in
honor, and more successfully than elsewhere has put forth a claim to the
epithet of "liberal". In a country in which, to play a social part, you must
either earn your income or make believe that you earn it, the healing art has
appeared in a high degree to combine two recognized sources of credit. -
Washington Square
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A light dinner will be served at 6:15
p.m. and the discussion will start at 6:30 p.m.
For more information about this program,
call 408-1135.
RSVP to Jay Jacobson at
jay.jacobson@intermountainmail.org
.
This activity is approved by the
University of Utah for 1.5 CME credit hours.
CME Statements and
Disclosures
Accreditation: The University of
Utah School of Medicine CME is accredited by the Accreditation Council for
Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for
physicians.
Designation: The University of Utah School of Medicine
designates this continuing medical education activity for a maximum of 1.5
credit hours in Category 1 of the Physician Recognition Award of the American
Medical Association. Each physician should claim only those hours of
credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.
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industry support of continuing medical education, and disclosure of faculty and
commercial sponsor relationships (if any) will be made known at the activity.
Speakers are also expected to openly disclose inclusion of discussion of any
off-label, experimental, or investigational use of drugs, devices, or equipment
in their presentations.
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Schedule of Readings for 2007
We have chosen a theme, "On Doctors and
Doctoring," to guide our literary and cinematic selections over the year and to
encourage an ongoing and enriching conversation about the changing social and
professional roles of physicians in history; about the challenging
relationships between doctors and their patients, their colleagues and their
families; and about the daunting responsibilities for physicians during war,
amidst poverty, and within crisis.
Wednesday,
January 3, 2007
6:30 p.m., UUMC Administrative Large Conference
Room 5A275
Book: Our Town, by
Thornton Wilder
Facilitator: Mark Matheson
Wednesday,
February 7, 2007
6:30 p.m., LDS Hospital in the Pugh
Boardroom
Book: Washington Square
by Henry James
Facilitator: Brooke Hopkins
Wednesday, March
7, 2007
6:30 p.m., UUMC Administrative Large Conference Room
5A275
Book: Autobiography of a
Face by Lucy Grealy
Facilitator: Susan Sample
Wednesday April
4, 2007
6:30 p.m., LDS Hospital in the Pugh Boardroom
Book:
The Sea and Poison by Shusaku
Endo
Facilitator: Therese Jones
Wednesday, May
2, 2007
6:30 p.m., UUMC Administrative Large Conference Room
5A275
Film: The Doctor
Facilitator: Therese Jones
Wednesday, June
6, 2007
6:30 p.m., LDS Hospital in the Pugh Boardroom
Literature: The Fortunate Man: The Story of a
Country Doctor by John Berger
Facilitator: Mark Matheson
Wednesday, July
11, 2007
6:30 p.m., UUMC Administrative Large Conference Room
5A275
Book: Mountains Beyond
Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Facilitator: Rachel Borup
Wednesday,
August 1, 2007
6:30 p.m., LDS Hospital in the Pugh
Boardroom
Book: House of God by
Samuel Shem
Facilitator: Therese Jones and Lou Borgenicht
Wednesday,
September 5, 2007
6:30 p.m., UUMC Administrative Large Conference
Room 5A275
Book: Chekhov's
Doctors edited by Jack Coulehan
Facilitator: Rachel Borup
Wednesday,
October 3, 2007
6:30 p.m., LDS Hospital in the Pugh Boardroom
Book: In the Country of Hearts
by John Stone
Facilitator: Susan Sample
Wednesday,
November 7, 2007
6:30 p.m., UUMC Administrative Large Conference
Room 5A275
Book: The Echo Maker
by Richard Powers
Facilitator: Rachel Borup
Wednesday,
December 5, 2007
6:30 p.m., LDS Hospital in the Pugh Boardroom
Book: Difficult Conversations: How to discuss
what Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila
Heen
Facilitator: Aden Ross
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