In the 4 years since COVID changed the world, uncertainty has permeated our lives.
As a Professor of Emergency Medicine with a love for the humanities, Dr. Jay Baruch long ago embraced that uncertainty into his professional life, and has channeled it into his award-winning writing, most recently in his latest book Tornado of Life.
Dr. Baruch is also an international advisory board member of University of Toronto’s Narrative-Based Medicine Lab.
You are invited to spend an evening with him and your colleagues reflecting on the messiness of life, and the power of storytelling to bring some order to that chaos, during our annual Doctors’ Lounge Festival of Medical Storytelling.
Please join us for an evening dedicated to sharing stories, poems, songs and artwork about our experiences as physicians within the health-care system, whether as providers or recipients of medical care.
You, as a potential presenter, are asked to keep your contribution to less than 5 minutes. We welcome creative efforts in pieces of one minute or less. In the past, some of these shorter presentations have been quite moving. It is amazing what can be conveyed in a few words!
Even if you are not prepared to be a presenter, feedback from audience members will hopefully make this once again a fully interactive experience (even though it will be held on Zoom).
Dr. Rex Kay of Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and Humanities will be on hand to give insightful feedback on the creative efforts presented.
