Facilitator: Judith Frank

Hospital Liaison: Jordan Fieldman, M.D. (pager 0618)

Location: January-February and April-June sessions: MAC 5 Conference Room; March session: Private Dining Rooms C and D

Day and Time: Wednesdays, 6:00 to 9:00 PM

Session 1: February 5, 2003 (snow date February 12)
Amy Bloom, "Rowing to Eden" (short story)
Lorrie Moore, "People Like Us are the Only People Here" (short story)
Raymond Carver, "Cathedral" (short story)

Session 2: February 26, 2003 (snow date March 5)
Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast (memoir)

Session 3: March 26, 2003 (snow date April 2)
Susan Reverby, Introduction to Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850-1945 (nonfiction)
Louisa May Alcott, "A Night," from Hospital Sketches (short story)
Selections from Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses

Session 4: April 30, 2003
Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (nonfiction)

Session 5: May 21, 2003
Sophocles, Philoctetes (play)

Session 6: June 18, 2003
Atul Gawande, "When Doctors Make Mistakes" (essay)
Richard Selzer, "Imelda" (short story)