Facilitator: Alyce Getler
Hospital Liaison: Cori Loescher, 983-7614, cloescher@faulknerhospital.org; Karen Rosen, 983-7711 (work) or 617-327-2955 (home), krosebank@aol.com
Location: Sadowsky Room, 4th floor
Day and Time: Tuesdays, 5:00 to 8:00 PM
Session 1: January 10 (snow date: January 17)
Illness, Loss, and Healing
May Sarton, Recovering: A Journal
J.M. Coetzee, “The Blow” (short story)
Jane Kenyon, “Chrysanthemums” (poem)
Joan Didion, “After Life” from The Year of Magical Thinking (memoir)
Session 2: February 14 (snow date: February 21)
All-too-human Clinicians: I
William Carlos Williams, “A Face of Stone,” in The Doctor Stories
Irvin Yalom, “The Fat Lady” (vignette)
Danielle Ofri, “Torment” (vignette)
Pearl Buck, The Enemy (play, adapted from the Buck short story by Ann Bean)
Session 3: March 14 (snow date: March 21)
All-too-human Clinicians: II
Abraham Verghese, The Tennis Player
William Carlos Williams, “Old Doc Rivers” in The Doctor Stories
Susan Onthank Mates, “The Good Doctor” (short story)
Session 4: April 11
The Ravages of Substance Abuse
James Frey, A Million Little Pieces (memoir)
Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night (play)
Session 5: May 9
Abuse, Violence, and Family Dysfunction
Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina (novel)
Jeanne Bryner, “This Red Oozing” (poem)
Theodore Deppe, “Admission, Children’s Unit” (poem)
Session 6: June 13
Rewards and Challenges of Clinical Practice
Mary Borden, from The Forbidden Zone, reprinted in Nurses at the Front, “In the Operating Room” and “Blind” (sketches)
Raymond Carver, “What the Doctor Said” (poem)
Cortney Davis, “The Body Flute” (poem)
Rafael Campo, “Like a Prayer” (essay)
Anton Chekhov, “Enemies” (short story)
Bruce Brown, “The Good Physician” (poem)
Clifford Cleveland, “CPR” (vignette)
