Medicine, Art & Literature

Year of Birth : 1943 Country : USA Medical School : University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1969 Awards : fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities; the American College of Physicians Poetry Award; the American Nurses Association's award for best book; the Merck Fellowship at Yaddo, and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine award for distinction in the humanities. Non - Fiction : The Medical Interview: Mastering Skills for Clinical Practice (1997, with Marian Block) Chekhov’s Doctors (2003) Second Opinion (2006) Poetry : “Ghazal on Miracles,” JAMA, 2008; 300: 1628 “Grackles,” JAMA, 2008; 300: 1390 “Five Moons of Venus,” Connecticut River Review, August 2008, p. 28 “Some Questions,” Chest, 2008; 134: 1106 “Zoster,” JAMA, 2008; 300: 1002 “Procedures,” Oyez Review, Vol. 36 (Spring), p. 40 “Case History,” JAMA, 2009; 302: 1737 “Pantoun on a Line From Alphonse Daudet,” California Quarterly, 2009; 35 (2): 34 “Nothing Is Sacred,” Annals of Internal Medicine, 2009; 151: 686 “No Clues” and “Benign,” Annals of Internal Medicine, 2009; 151: 803 and 822 “Pantoun on Lines by William Osler,” JAMA, 2009; 302: 1844 “Babushka,” JAMA, 2009; 302: 2066 Aesculapius,” Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2009; 181: E242