Guest ttryit Posted May 17, 2005 Report Share Posted May 17, 2005 Just as the title says. We will have our answer in a fortnight. tt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ploughboy Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The wait is killing me. I'm trying to distract myself by catching up on my reading. I just came across this, and although I doubt ol' TSE was thinking about the OMSAS Oct-June application cycle when he wrote this, it really fits (it fits my current mood, at any rate)... Disastrous summer burn up the beds of our streams And the poor shall wait for another decaying October. Why should the summer bring consolation For autumn fires and winter fogs? What shall we do in the heat of summer But wait in barren orchards for another October? Some malady is coming upon us. We wait, we wait, And the saints and martyrs wait, for those who shall be martyrs and saints. Destiny waits in the hand of God, shaping the still unshapen. - - Eliot, from _Murder in the Cathedral_ pb edit: signed -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCi3ia/HNgbK3bC2wRAnTXAJ4y/Ggypq9wJUpsG9NivJzj1TzkVgCfQeSB 8BmmmU9dt37ApSGjMzcasiQ= =ejY4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Isoceles Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 HA HA! "Some malady is coming upon us." :rollin nice. T. S. Eliot seems to have had some insight into the med school application process: "Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question... Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' Let us go and make our visit." And maybe into the complexities and difficulties of medicine too... "There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your plate; Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions. And for a hundred visions and revisions" ...and all this quoting reminds me... Anyone know anything about "Literature and Medicine"? I did my English honors project in this field this last year. It's really interesting, and if I get in to Queen's I am definitely hoping to start something up for anyone who is interested... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CalicoKal Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 Hey! Interesting! What texts did you use? I'm assuming you are aware of the literature, arts and medicine database from NYU (link below). A very interesting area indeed. I did my undergrad in English Lit as well. While I didn't do my honours thesis in this area, I certainly found my interests lie there... endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-...pview.html Hope you get into Queen's! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tomparv Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 The big movement in the States to do with Literature and Medicine is called 'Narrative Medicine', and championed by Dr. Rita Charon at Columbia. http://www.narrativemedicine.org If you search the literature, you can find some really interesting articles by her explaining the program's goals and methods. I'd also check out an article by Abraham Verghese (can't remember the title) which espouses a somewhat divergent view. I, too, am waiting to hear from Queens and few other places, and would like to get involved with any initiative to do with using literature to facilitate or enrich the study of medicine. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ploughboy Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey neat, I didn't know such a field existed! Thank-you all for the interesting links! pb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCi34b/HNgbK3bC2wRAi5qAJ9al+kkuM5wtGSOlhf9nKTOR+KlMACfYvc7 b7w/FJiyqSWhmdEm8QuEIpc= =llAh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blinknoodle Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 At UWO, our bioethics is taught mainly through narratives. Dr. Nisker is a big proponent of narrative medicine and the use of theatre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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