MEDICINE & THE ARTS
The Director of the Columbia University Center for Clinical Medical Ethics discusses how she cultivates “moral imagination” in medical trainees and how she acknowledges and responds to suffering.
The Writer-in-Residence at Stanford Medicine discusses why storytelling is core to a clinician’s work and shares how she is searching for her own voice through life’s losses.
A leading ophthalmologist and former chair of ophthalmology at Stanford Medicine shares how he comforts patients with vision loss and discusses the role of the arts in medical education.
An anesthesiologist and the founder of Stanford’s medical humanities program shares how she comforts patients during their most vulnerable moments and why the medical humanities matter.
Physician and bestselling author Abraham Verghese discusses the transformative power of the human touch in shaping the bond between doctors and patients.