March 29: An Evening With Dr. Rex Kay and Friends

 

Thank you once again to Dr. Rex Kay for leading in our annual medical storytelling night for the 9th consecutive time. Thank you to Dr. Eloise Ballou for illuminating us on the cliché that every face tells a story www.onfaces.org/ .
Check out Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and Humanities (www.ars-medica.ca ) where Dr. Kay is an editor.

 

NEW LOCAL MEDICAL STORYTELLING INITIATIVE: check out a blog recently started by some of your District 11 colleagues https://healthcareandhumanity.wordpress.com/  .
 

Monday February 27: An Evening With Dr. Peter Pisters

Thank you to Dr. Pisters for a demonstration on how effective leadership can save lives.
Medical “error” ranks up there with cancer and heart disease as one of the leading causes of death in Western society(see http://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2139 ).
It is time that we, as a profession, face this unpleasant reality. (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emouSWPr5xA ).
Kudos to pioneers such as Dr. Pisters.