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.

 

January 25, 2017: An Evening With Dr. Jason Fung

Thank you to Dr.Jason Fung, author of The Obesity Code, as well as the recent The Complete Guide to Fasting, for a fascinating evening of paradigm shifting. See  https://www.dietdoctor.com/learn-intermittent-fasting-new-video-course

Monday December 5: An Evening with Dr. Colin Shapiro

Thank you to Dr. Shapiro for a lively and engaging talk.
For further information on his free self-management of insomnia program, see  www.sleepontario.com .

Thurday November 10: An Evening with Dr. Margaret Herridge

Thank you to Dr. Margaret Herridge for an informative overview of Post ICU syndrome, as described in this news article. 

http://news.nationalpost.com/health/blood-seeping-from-the-walls-killer-doctors-icu-hallucinations-haunt-a-staggering-number-of-patients

For further reading, see https://books.google.ca/books?id=hVPwAwAAQBAJ&dq=textbook+of+post+icu+medicine
 

Wednesday October 19: An Evening with Dr. Michael Thaut

In 2013, Doctors’ Lounge participants had the privilege of hearing from Dr. Michael Thaut on the subject of Neurologic Music Therapy (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnuQpSPsjIk ).
Thank you to Dr. Thaut for updating us on the subject.

 

 

An Evening With Dr.Ira Jacobs : September 19

Thank you to Dr. Jacobs for his talk entitled: “Sustaining and Enhancing Human Performance and Health in Harsh Environments.”