When:
Thursday, April 21, 2016
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Searle Seminar Room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Bryan Morrison
(312) 503-1927
Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Jay Baruch, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director, Program in Clinical Arts and Humanities
Director, Medical Humanities and Bioethics Scholarly Concentration
Director, Ethics Curriculum
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Narrative Risks in Clinical Medicine: Why Healthcare Providers Should Think Like Creative Writers
In this talk, I'll discuss high risk narrative challenges and how creative writing skills and fundamental principles of story structure have served as necessary clinical skills in my work as an emergency physician. We must be story experts because the best medicine won't work on the wrong story. And yet, our susceptibility to story can lead to poor outcomes. I'll assert why medicine (and medical education) needs to recognize the creative dimensions of medical decision making.