Facilitator: Alyce Getler
Hospital Liaisons:
Susan Edgman-Levitan (617) 724-8824, sedmanlevitan@partners.org)
Alicia Wong, (617) 643-5320, awong13@partners.org
Location: East Garden Room in the White Basement, across the hall from the exit of the Eat Street Cafe
Day and Time: Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30pm
Session 1: January 22 (snow date January 29)
The Patient's Experience
Marjorie Williams, “Hit by Lightning” (essay)
Lorrie Moore, “People Like That Are the Only People Here” (story)
Anatole Broyard, from Intoxicated by My Illness: “Prologue,” “Intoxicated by My Illness,”
“The Patient Examines the Doctor,” “Epilogue” (essays)
Jane Kenyon, “The Sick Wife” (poem)
Session 2: February 26 (snow date March 4)
Difficult Encounters
Richard Selzer, “Four Appointments with the Discus Thrower” (story)
Anton Chekhov, “Enemies” (story)
Danielle Ofri, “Torment” (essay)
Irwin Yalom, “The Fat Lady” (essay)
Veneta Masson, “The Promise” (poem, in Rehab at the Florida Avenue Grill, p. 18)
Session 3: March 25 (snow date April 1)
Social Issues in Medicine
Selections from Veneta Masson, Rehab at the Florida Avenue Grill (poems)
Susan Eisenberg, “Flu Vaccine” (poem)
Jeanne Bryner, “This Red Oozing” (poem)
Jay Baruch, “A Little Heart” (story)
David Hifiker, “Taking Sides” (nonfiction)*
Session 4: April 22
The Wounded Healer
Abraham Verghese, The Tennis Partner, excerpts (to be announced)
William Carlos Williams, “Old Doc Rivers” (story)
Session 5: May 27
Mental Health
Adam Haslett, “Notes to My Biographer” and “The Good Doctor” in You Are Not a Stranger Here (stories)
Anita Darcel Taylor, “By My Own Hand” (essay)
Jane Kenyon, interview with Bill Moyers in his collection The Language of Life (from his PBS series of the same name), pp. 225-231
Session 6: June 24
Moments of Grace
Rebecca Brown, from The Gifts of the Body: “The Gift of Wholeness,” “The Gift of Hunger,” “The Gift of Mourning” (fiction)
Geoffrey Bowe, “Male Nurse Washing a Nun” (poem)
Richard Selzer, “Atrium: 2001” (story)
John Stone, “He Makes a House Call” (poem)
Jane Kenyon, “Chrysanthemums” (poem)
