The Literary Rx: The Book Doctors Are In!
Thu Jan 30, 2025 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST
Online, Zoom
Description
Join four best-selling medical writers for a live (online) panel discussion, followed by a Q&A, about ethical dilemmas they have faced and how they have used creative writing to dig deeper into considerations about these issues. This event is free and open to the public.
This is a live event, but RSVP even if you can't make it, as the discussion will be recorded and we will send you a link to watch later.
Panelists
Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, is the editor-in-chief of BLR, a primary care doctor at Bellevue Hospital, and a clinical professor of medicine at NYU. She is a contributor to The New Yorker and the New York Times. She is the author of 6 books, most recently, When We Do Harm.
Perri Klass, MD, is professor of journalism and pediatrics at NYU, where she directs the medical humanities minor, and national medical director of Reach Out and Read. She writes both fiction and nonfiction; her newest book is The Best Medicine, originally published as A Good Time to Be Born.
Damon Tweedy, MD, is a professor of psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine and staff physician at the Durham Veteran Affairs Health System. His book, Black Man in a White Coat, was a New York Times Bestseller, selected by TIME magazine as one of the Top 10 Nonfiction books of 2015. His new book is Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine.
Esther Choo, MD, MPH, is an emergency physician and health services researcher at Oregon Health & Science University. She is a science communicator who discusses health inequities through both social media and traditional editorial writing. Her writing has been published in The Lancet, the British Medical Journal, Washington Post, MSNBC, and USA Today.