Facilitator: Joseph Cady
Hospital Liaisons: Emily Ferrara (856-5134; emily.ferrara@umassmed.edu)
David Hatem, M.D. (856-5972; hatemd@ummhc.org)
Fernanda Gama (856-5487; fernanda.gama@umassmed.edu
Location: Chancellor's Board Room, Lamar Soutter Library, UMass Medical School
Day and Time: Thursdays, 5:30-8:00pm
Session 1: January 19 (snow date January 26)
Clinician, Society, Epidemic
Abraham Verghese, My Own Country (memoir)
Session 2: February 9 (snow date February 16)
Confronting Mortality
Leo Tolstoy, “The Death of Ivan Ilych” (story)
Thom Jones “I Want to Live!” (story)
John Stone, “Angor Animi” (poem)
Veneta Masson, “Litany of Dolores” (poem)
Paul Monette, “No Goodbyes” (poem)
Session 3: March 9 (snow date March 16)
The Wounded Healer
Hacib Aoun, “When a House Officer Gets AIDS,” “From the Eye of the Storm, with the Eyes of a Physician” (commentary)
Ellen N. LaMotte, “The Interval,” and Mary Borden, “Moonlight,” from Nurses at the Front, pp. 29-37 and 89-98 (sketches)
Kay Redfield Jamison, “A Not So Fine Madness,” An Unquiet Mind (memoir), pp. 67-135
Session 4: April 6
Medicine and the Other America
David Hilfiker, Not All of Us Are Saints (nonfiction)
Session 5: May 11
Moments of Grace
John Stone, “He Makes a House Call” (poem)
Sterling Brown, “Parish Doctor” (poem)
Veneta Masson, “Admission,” “Home Remedies for the Blues” (poems)
Raymond Carver, “What the Doctor Said,” “Proposal,” “No Need,” “Afterglow” (poems)
Paul Monette, “Brother of the Mount of Olives” (poem)
Rebecca Brown, from The Gifts of the Body: “The Gift of Wholeness,” “The Gift of Hunger,” “The Gift of Mourning” (fiction)
