Appearances and Interviews

Upcoming appearances:

9/​30-10/​2/​10 Keynote speaker. Quandaries in Healthcare Conference, Aspen CO. Topic: A Need to Confess: Writing About the Healthcare Experience
10/​18/​10 Visions and Voices: The USC Arts and Humanities Initiative—
Truth and Consequences: Writing About Patients
10/​23/​10 American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, San Diego.
Panel: Witness and Response: Physician-Writers/​Health/​Illness/​Justice


March 28, 2006 Distinguished Visitor, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

April 24, 2007 Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine, University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine

May 1-3, 2007 Visiting Lectureship, Hiram College, Center for Literature, Medicine, and Biomedical Humanities, Hiram OH

May 2, 2007 Reading, Mac’s Backs, Cleveland Heights, OH

October 3, 2007 Reading at Brown University Bookstore, Providence, RI

January 31, 2008 Guest Speaker, elective at Harvard Medical School, called “Narrative Ethics: Literary Texts and Moral Issues in Medicine.”

February 19, 2008 Humanities Perspectives lecture. “Pulling the Hat Out of the Rabbit, or Creating Fiction Out of Medicine.” Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.

April 16, 2008 College of Physicians/​Society for the Arts in Healthcare Philadelphia, PA.

October 23, 2008 Panelist First Punch/​Second Punch--No Punches Pulled--Reading and Rereading the House of God. The conference was Return to House of God--(W)rites of Passage. Cleveland, OH

April 30 and May 1, 2009 Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine, University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine


September 24, 2009 AMSA Book Discussion Webinar Series

Recent and Selected Work

Fiction
Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers
“These edgy, heartfelt, wryly humorous stories... tell us what it’s really like to doctor, to patient, to suffer and to redeem.”
--Samuel Shem author of The House of God and Mount Misery.
"Soft Landings"
Eclectica Magazine
"Empowerment Centers"
The Battered Suitcase
"Comfortable"
Hamilton Stone Review 17;2009
"Fortunata"
The Bryant Literary Review 9; 2008: 24-50
"Avignon"
"Tattoo Highway" Volume #16: Sidekicks & Fellow Travelers
Essay
Guilt and Time: My enemies
University of Toronto Medical Journal. First appeared in Ars Medica
Nonfiction
The Story Always Comes First
NYU Literature, Arts and Medicine blog
This I Believe WRNI