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INTERNAL REALITIES: SUBTEXT

The UNC School of Nursing is proud to present: An insight into how gestures and underlying meanings affect our messages.(Attend any or all)

INTERNAL REALITIES: SUBTEXT

The UNC School of Nursing is proud to present: An insight into how gestures and underlying meanings affect our messages.(Attend any or all)

Still Life: Scenes from the Faraway Nearby

The UNC School of Nursing is proud to present IMPROVING PATIENT CARE USING THE HUMANITIES AND PERFORMING ARTS: This story of a severe medical crisis, written by a nurse, gives voice to a patient on a ventilator and considers the important question of what makes a life worth living—what questions arise when a life should … Read more

Still Life: Scenes from the Faraway Nearby

The UNC School of Nursing is proud to present IMPROVING PATIENT CARE USING THE HUMANITIES AND PERFORMING ARTS: This story of a severe medical crisis, written by a nurse, gives voice to a patient on a ventilator and considers the important question of what makes a life worth living—what questions arise when a life should … Read more

EXTERNAL REALITIES: CONTEXT

The UNC School of Nursing is proud to present: Balancing Engagement and Detachment: Using Skillsfrom the Dramatic Arts. EXTERNAL REALITIES: CONTEXT A glimpse into how awareness of given circumstances improves communication

“Rationing is Not a Four Letter Word: Death Panels, Policy & Ethics”

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds :U.S. Dr. Rosoff will present a proposal for comprehensive healthcare reform that embraces rationing, and provide an approach for rationing that is just and fair. Philip Rosoff, MD, Director, Clinical Ethics Program, Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine, Duke University.

Caring for Practitioners and Patients: Challenges for Emerging Models of Health Care

Please join us for a two-day conference, Caring for Practitioners and Patients: Challenges for Emerging Models of Health Care, on April 7-8, 2016. Recent shifts in health care financing, governance, and information management have profoundly shaped the ways health practitioners and patients interact with one another, often leaving both deeply unsatisfied. This conference examines diverse … Read more

2016 Emerson Lecture: Connecting the Bridge between Caregiver and Patient

A Singular Intimacy: Connecting the Bridge Between Caregiver and Patient,Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, D.Litt (Hon), FACP Associate Professor of Medicine New York University School of Medicine Editor-in-Chief, Bellevue Literary Review Thursday, April 7, 2016 | 5:45pm Great Hall, Trent Semans Center for Health Education, Duke University Free and open to the public | Reception to … Read more

MEDICAL HUMANITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA

Please join the Franklin Humanities Institute for a pair of talks on epidemics, bodies, sexuality, and health with two visitors from the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER), University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg. 12:00-1:00 pm Catherine Burns | HIV and Medical Humanities: The Waiting Room 1:15 - 2:15 pm Sarah Emily Duff | Making … Read more