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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Book Suggestion: Musicophilia
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Revised and Expanded)
(Oliver Sacks, 2007)
Teresa L. Schraeder, M.D.
If you have ever wondered why you enjoy music (or perhaps why one of your screwball relatives does not) and you care even remotely about the human mind, then this book is a must read.
It is an absolute symphonic treasure of thoughts, historical references, and clinical cases of all things concerning music and the mind.
In reading this book, you will witness Sacks's thoughtful and inquisitive observations along with his compassion for the physiologic interplay between notes and neurology – a harmonious and delicious work meant to be consumed as one would a brilliant meal before a night at the symphony...voraciously!
(Oliver Sacks, 2007)
Teresa L. Schraeder, M.D.
If you have ever wondered why you enjoy music (or perhaps why one of your screwball relatives does not) and you care even remotely about the human mind, then this book is a must read.
It is an absolute symphonic treasure of thoughts, historical references, and clinical cases of all things concerning music and the mind.
In reading this book, you will witness Sacks's thoughtful and inquisitive observations along with his compassion for the physiologic interplay between notes and neurology – a harmonious and delicious work meant to be consumed as one would a brilliant meal before a night at the symphony...voraciously!
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Blogging Article by Andrew Sullivan from The Atlantic
Here's a great article for all of us new (and old) bloggers to see how a seasoned journalist explains what it is and why it can be beneficial for blogger and reader (blogee?).
Why I Blog, The Atlantic by Andrew Sullivan.
Why I Blog, The Atlantic by Andrew Sullivan.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Links to My Published Articles, Comments, and Interviews
Terry L. Schraeder
Book reviews
Unstrange Minds: Unmapping the World of Autism (July 19, 2007)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/3/310
The Healing Art; A Doctor’s Black Bag of Poetry (December 25, 2003)
https://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/349/26/2576
Alternative Medicine? A History (July 31, 2008)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/359/5/543
Articles
Nieman Reports/Harvard University:
“A Chasm of Mistrust in Medical Reporting” (Summer, 2003)
http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/assets/pdf/Nieman%20Reports/backissues/03summer.pdf
The New England Journal of Medicine
Smallpox Vaccination: The Call to Arms (Dec 19, 2002)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/NEJMp020177v1
Getting to the Heart of a Fatigue Problem
The Boston Globe, March 23, 2004
What Caused the Woman's Headache and Paralysis?
The Boston Globe, July 13, 2004
NEJM Interviews (audio and video)
http://content.nejm.org/misc/audiointerviews.dtl?ssource=recentInterviews
Video Interviews
Anthony Fauci
An HIV Vaccine: Challenges and Prospects (August 28, 2008)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/359/9/888/DC1
Allan Brandt FDA Regulation of Tobacco (July 31, 2008)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMp0803729/DC1
Francis Collins: The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (June 19, 2008)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMp0803729/DC1
Audio Interviews
Susan Wood and the FDA and Plan B (October 20, 2005)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/16/1650/DC1
Dr. Anne Moscona
Clinical Implications of Oseltamavir Resistance (December 22, 2005)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/25/2633/DC1
Dr. Robert Belshe
Origins of the Flu Pandemic (November 24, 2005)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/21/2209/DC1
Dr. F. Daniel Duffy
ABIM New Recertification (November 10, 2005)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/19/1989/DC1
Drs. Thomas Sequist and Dan Calac
Native American Health Care (November 3, 2005)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/18/1884/DC1
Dr. Susan Block and Medical Student Christie Sullivan
Learning from the Dying (September 29, 2005)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/13/1313/DC1
Here and Now: Good Medicine (WBUR Radio, 2/3/2005)
Published Comments/Interviews in Print
Boston Magazine: Here’s to Your Health (March 2007)
Book reviews
Unstrange Minds: Unmapping the World of Autism (July 19, 2007)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/3/310
The Healing Art; A Doctor’s Black Bag of Poetry (December 25, 2003)
https://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/349/26/2576
Alternative Medicine? A History (July 31, 2008)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/359/5/543
Articles
Nieman Reports/Harvard University:
“A Chasm of Mistrust in Medical Reporting” (Summer, 2003)
http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/assets/pdf/Nieman%20Reports/backissues/03summer.pdf
The New England Journal of Medicine
Smallpox Vaccination: The Call to Arms (Dec 19, 2002)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/NEJMp020177v1
Getting to the Heart of a Fatigue Problem
The Boston Globe, March 23, 2004
What Caused the Woman's Headache and Paralysis?
The Boston Globe, July 13, 2004
NEJM Interviews (audio and video)
http://content.nejm.org/misc/audiointerviews.dtl?ssource=recentInterviews
Video Interviews
Anthony Fauci
An HIV Vaccine: Challenges and Prospects (August 28, 2008)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/359/9/888/DC1
Allan Brandt FDA Regulation of Tobacco (July 31, 2008)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMp0803729/DC1
Francis Collins: The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (June 19, 2008)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMp0803729/DC1
Audio Interviews
Susan Wood and the FDA and Plan B (October 20, 2005)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/16/1650/DC1
Dr. Anne Moscona
Clinical Implications of Oseltamavir Resistance (December 22, 2005)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/25/2633/DC1
Dr. Robert Belshe
Origins of the Flu Pandemic (November 24, 2005)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/21/2209/DC1
Dr. F. Daniel Duffy
ABIM New Recertification (November 10, 2005)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/19/1989/DC1
Drs. Thomas Sequist and Dan Calac
Native American Health Care (November 3, 2005)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/18/1884/DC1
Dr. Susan Block and Medical Student Christie Sullivan
Learning from the Dying (September 29, 2005)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/13/1313/DC1
Here and Now: Good Medicine (WBUR Radio, 2/3/2005)
Published Comments/Interviews in Print
Boston Magazine: Here’s to Your Health (March 2007)
Medicine in Writing Lecture Outline 9/4/08
“Why Write?”
by
Teresa L. Schraeder, M.D.
Writing and Medicine
Lecture for Second-Year Medical Students
Doctoring Course
by
Teresa L. Schraeder, M.D.
Writing and Medicine
Lecture for Second-Year Medical Students
Doctoring Course
Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University
September 4, 2008
Goal:
To familiarize the medical students with the world of writing and medicine, encourage them to reflect on their own feelings towards writing, and to offer instruction and ideas on how and why they should begin to write.
Objectives:
(1) To present an overview of the history of literary medicine with examples from Berton Roueché and Lewis Thomas to Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande with a brief analysis and discussion of each.
(2) Present quantifiable benefits from published research on the benefits of writing during medical training and practice.
(3) To begin to think about the fundamentals of writing with examples of various styles, objectives, helpful tools, and publication tips.
(4) To allow the students to answer for themselves why they want to write – to realize their own objectives with regards to reporting, reflecting, communicating, and publishing.
2 articles to accompany lecture:
(1) “Doctors Who Wield the Pen to Heal the Profession,” Abigail Zuger, The New York Times, May 15, 2007.
(2) Anna Reixman et al. “The Craft of Writing; A Physician-Writer’s Workshop for Resident Physicians.” Journal of General Internal Medicine 2006 October; 21 (10); 1109-1111
Additional reading list:
(3) The Doctors Stories by Richard Selzer, “Imelda” pp. 83-97, 1998
(4) “Essay: Prescribed Reading” Jerome Groopman, The New York Times, May 13, 2007
September 4, 2008
Goal:
To familiarize the medical students with the world of writing and medicine, encourage them to reflect on their own feelings towards writing, and to offer instruction and ideas on how and why they should begin to write.
Objectives:
(1) To present an overview of the history of literary medicine with examples from Berton Roueché and Lewis Thomas to Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande with a brief analysis and discussion of each.
(2) Present quantifiable benefits from published research on the benefits of writing during medical training and practice.
(3) To begin to think about the fundamentals of writing with examples of various styles, objectives, helpful tools, and publication tips.
(4) To allow the students to answer for themselves why they want to write – to realize their own objectives with regards to reporting, reflecting, communicating, and publishing.
2 articles to accompany lecture:
(1) “Doctors Who Wield the Pen to Heal the Profession,” Abigail Zuger, The New York Times, May 15, 2007.
(2) Anna Reixman et al. “The Craft of Writing; A Physician-Writer’s Workshop for Resident Physicians.” Journal of General Internal Medicine 2006 October; 21 (10); 1109-1111
Additional reading list:
(3) The Doctors Stories by Richard Selzer, “Imelda” pp. 83-97, 1998
(4) “Essay: Prescribed Reading” Jerome Groopman, The New York Times, May 13, 2007
Suggested Reading List for Writing in Medicine Lecture 9/4/08
Writing in Medicine(Notes to Narratives)
Second-Year Medical Student Doctoring Course
Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University
Teresa L. Schraeder, M.D.
September 4, 2008
Books I mentioned in lecture:
“The Doctor Stories” by Richard Selzer
“An Anthropologist on Mars” by Oliver Sacks ("Musicophilia" is also a great book by Sacks!)
“The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” by Oliver Sacks
“Singular Intimacies” by Danielle Ofri
“Kitchen Table Wisdom” by Rachel N. Remen
“Wit” (a play) by Margaret Edson
“Sin and Syntax” by Constance Hale
“On Writing Well” by William Zinsser
“The Elements of Style” by William Strunk and E.B. White
“The Healing Art” by Rafael Campo
“Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance” by Atul Gawande
“Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science” by Atul Gawande
“Forty Stories” by Anton Chekhov
“How Doctors Think” by Jerome Groopman
“Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors” by Susan Sontag
“The Medical Detectives” by Berton Roueché
“The Magic Mountain” by Thomas Mann
“The Lonely Patient” by Michael Stein
“Fourteen Stories” by Jay Baruch
“Body of Work” by Christine Montross
Second-Year Medical Student Doctoring Course
Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University
Teresa L. Schraeder, M.D.
September 4, 2008
Books I mentioned in lecture:
“The Doctor Stories” by Richard Selzer
“An Anthropologist on Mars” by Oliver Sacks ("Musicophilia" is also a great book by Sacks!)
“The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” by Oliver Sacks
“Singular Intimacies” by Danielle Ofri
“Kitchen Table Wisdom” by Rachel N. Remen
“Wit” (a play) by Margaret Edson
“Sin and Syntax” by Constance Hale
“On Writing Well” by William Zinsser
“The Elements of Style” by William Strunk and E.B. White
“The Healing Art” by Rafael Campo
“Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance” by Atul Gawande
“Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science” by Atul Gawande
“Forty Stories” by Anton Chekhov
“How Doctors Think” by Jerome Groopman
“Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors” by Susan Sontag
“The Medical Detectives” by Berton Roueché
“The Magic Mountain” by Thomas Mann
“The Lonely Patient” by Michael Stein
“Fourteen Stories” by Jay Baruch
“Body of Work” by Christine Montross
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