Posts Tagged ‘Robert schwab’
Keeping A Close Watch On This Heart Of Mine
I saw Ring of Fire, a musical life of Johnny Cash, at the Watertower Theatre click here for more information, a local small theatre near my home last night. I love live theatre, and this experience reminded me why. The actors were both talented musicians and singers, and the spare script, which consisted of a…
Read MoreMore Hope For The Future
I spent a very pleasant afternoon yesterday in Wichita Falls, Texas, where I spoke to the Pre-Health Society at Midwestern State University. I was very impressed with this group of mostly premedical students. They were attentive and asked important questions about what the proper motivations should be to enter the medical profession. We talked about…
Read MoreComing Home After A Homecoming
I’ve just returned from Iowa City, where I attended The Examined Life Conference view program here, a gathering of people who are dedicated to exploring how the arts and healthcare intersect, and to teaching the importance of this intersection to those who choose to become healthcare professionals. It was a pleasure and a privilege to…
Read MoreWhat Is It About Music?
I must admit to another emotional response that confirms my status as an impending geezer: I get a little irritated at all the people who move through life with earbuds blocking out the world in which they exist, albeit perhaps reluctantly. Although I enjoy music, I’ve never felt compelled to use it in this way,…
Read MoreUnderstanding The Inexorable March Of Time
Time, and the passage of years, can be both an ally and a formidable foe. With age comes experience and wisdom, and hopefully a comfort with oneself that would be the envy of many young adults and every teenager. But time can wreak havoc, too. Disease lurks, and when it strikes, ones ability to combat…
Read MoreAnother Challenge To The Covenant
It has been a while since I’ve written here. I’ve been on vacation, traveling and writing and relaxing, and something else happened to me that made a recent article in the New York Times Read Article Here particularly interesting to me. I was jogging on a treadmill, something I do about every two weeks because I enjoy…
Read MoreWe Need More “Regular Doctors”
An article in the New York Times this week talks about the difference between primary care physicians and specialists Read Article Here. Trying to explain just exactly what a primary care physician does reflects the difference between the more procedurally-oriented specialists who focus on a narrow, specific problem, and the “cognitive” physicians whose job it…
Read MoreBack In Balance
Last time, I wrote about how healing is unique and individual, and how therapies that purists may claim have no basis in science may nevertheless be effective in some people. Since my last post, I have seen that thesis reinforced in spades, but I will save that story for another day. This morning, for the…
Read MoreThe Absence Of Evidence Should Not Deter Healing
A good friend of mine speaks frequently about medical decision-making, and often quotes the astronomer Carl Sagan, who said, “the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” That quote has broader application to the work of caring for patients with illness, I think, and its applicability can be illustrated using myself as an example.…
Read MoreHope at Georgetown
An article in the New York Times Read article here today discusses a group of faculty and students at Georgetown Medical School who are meeting in the evenings to discuss literature, in an effort to maintain the connection with humanity that medical education can unwittingly sever. That may seem counterintuitive, but not to those who have…
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