Literature and Medicine
Tuesday, November 11 2008
by Frank Stasio and Susan Davis
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The NC Children's Hospital Butterfly Garden
Medical schools around the country have committed themselves to training empathetic healers as well as excellent physicians. To that end, a group of medical and hospital professionals at UNC have come together to explore how literature can encourage and enable empathy. They plan to use integrate reading and writing about the experience of sickness and wellness into the UNC hospital system. Host Frank Stasio speaks with: Chris Osmond, assistant professor in the Department of Social Medicine at UNC; Elizabeth Dreesen, trauma surgeon; Howard Carter, adjunct professor in Social Medicine and retired professor of Comparative Literature; and Susan Seigel, coordinator of Healing Arts projects for UNC hospital.
