March 29: An Evening with Drs. Danielle Ofri, Allison Crawford & Rex Kay

 The Doctors’ Lounge is pleased to invite you to the return engagement of highly acclaimed physician and author Dr. Danielle Ofri , editor of the Bellevue Literary Review.

Back by popular demand, she will be joined in conversation with Dr. Allison Crawford, editor of Ars Medica and founding director of HeART Lab.

Their conversation will be facilitated by Dr. Rex Kay, who has been leading our World Storytelling Day Medical Narrative evenings since 2009. Dr. Kay is a founding editor of Ars Medica.

During the second half of the evening, Dr. Kay will be engaging the virtual audience in the discussion.

The theme for the evening is medical culture as seen through the lens of the humanities.

This continues our exploration of medical culture that we began in February. An interesting article on the topic can be found here.

Please join us as we continue our annual tradition of reflecting on the shared experience of being physicians.

Feb 28, 2022 An Evening With Drs. Sally Satel & Carrie Mendoza

 There is nothing better for a doctor to do on a cold February evening than to gather around the virtual fireplace of ideas that is at the heart of the Doctors’ Lounge series and engage in healthy discourse.

That is, unless you are feeling the cold chill of “walking on eggshells” when it comes to sharing your opinions with colleagues.

Medicine has elements of being a culture, yet the literature on that topic is surprisingly sparse. A good recent overview to reflect on is here.

COVID has exposed the fragile unity of the sub-cultures that contribute to the whole, if indeed, there is such a thing as medical culture.

Please join us for an evening where we explore harsh realities of the intersection between cancel culture and medical culture.

Our guides for the evening:

Psychiatrist and author Dr. Sally Satel and ER physician Dr. Carrie Mendoza, volunteer organizer of Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism.

Interesting video on the Gustilo case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vJh349ppqM 

Wednesday January 26, 2022: An Evening With Dr. David Ludwig

Calories in, calories out, is a paradigm that has crushed many a New Year’s resolution.

You are invited to spend an evening with colleagues trying to understand why.

Our guide for this exploration will be Dr. David Ludwig.

Dr. Ludwig is an endocrinologist and researcher at Boston Children’s Hospital, Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Nutrition at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

For an appetizer, an article from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, where he is an associate editor.

Please join us in the virtual OMA District 11 Doctors’ Lounge, where paradigms have been known to shift since 2005.

Follow-up resource: https://youtu.be/YUSs5RqHaMk .