April 21: An Evening on Chaos, Order & Complexity

Thank you to Drs. Vivian and Vanessa Rambihar for leading us on a tour of complexity science.
For a textual tour of the subject, see: http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781493922550 
and http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/life-sciences/genomics-bioinformatics-and-systems-biology/systems-view-life-unifying-vision

March 26: The Narrative Imperative

Thank you to Dr.Charles Hayter, oncologist and playwright http://radicaltheplay.com/ , and Dr. Rex Kay of Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and Humanities (www.ars-medica.ca ) ,and to all who contributed to another wonderful evening of medical storytelling.

MONDAY FEBRUARY 23: an Evening With Dr. Vera Tarman

 

Thank you to Dr. Vera Tarman, author of “Food Junkies: The Truth About Food Addiction” (Dundurn Press, 2014). http://www.dundurn.com/authors/vera_tarman

 

 

THANK YOU

As we begin our second decade together, I would like to express my thanks and gratitude to all speakers, support staff and participants who have helped shape the Doctors' Lounge series.
Our first program of 2015 will be exploring art & medicine.
I thought it an excellent opportunity to share the work of one of the great artists of our time, Bill Watterson, who has captured the spirit of the DL in the final frame of his 10 year artistic masterpiece:

 

An Evening with Dr. Lisa Richardson: January 20,2015

Thank you to Dr. Richardson for her talk based on the course she teaches at the AGO, which is based on the observational skills program at Yale : http://dermatology.yale.edu/education/braverman/index.aspx
See also http://www.vtshome.org/
 

December 10: Our Second Annual Night of Medical Imagineering

Thanks to our presenters Drs. Julielynn Wong, Andrea Lo, Stan Lofsky, Doug Kavanagh, Naheed Dosani, Tarek Rajii and Amanda Khan. It’s never too early to consider presenting at next year’s event. If interested in doing so, please send a note to Pupko@rogers.com.

An Evening With Dr. Howard Hu : November 11

 

Some food for thought: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/04/04/finding_a_cure_for_hate.html

Some evidence that we as physicians are not immune to the vulnerabilities of the human condition:
 http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/11/sub_human_pos_doctors_acronym_for_the_worst_patients_is_shpos.html

 

Video on public health presented by Dr. Hu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdC0efvJXRQ

 

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