We are a group of physicians who also are creative writers. The group was founded in 2008 by Audrey Shafer, M.D. (Anaesthesia), Hans Steiner, M.D. (Psychiatry and Human Development), Irvin Yalom, M.D. ( Psychiatry) and Larry Zaroff, M.D., Ph.D., (Cardiac Surgery).
The group currently has some twenty members from all branches of medicine participating in monthly meetings, workshops and annual readings. Our members write poetry, fiction, fictionalized memoirs, op-ed pieces and educational texts for the lay public with the intent to broaden public understanding of the science and art of medicine. Other goals of the group are: to bring the insights of humanistic arts to the practice of medicine; to inform creative writing by the practice of medicine; to educate medical students and young physicians in the humanistic dimensions of medical practice; and to celebrate the lives of our patients through our writing.
To contact the group, email Dr. Steiner: steiner@stanford.edu
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NEXT READING:
Stanford Med Writers Forum Next Reading Featuring Readings by the Pegasus Physicians at Stanford:
"Medicine: Conundrums and Mysteries"
Thursday, May 31, 2012, 5:30pm
Auditorium, Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive, Stanford University
Free and open to the public
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PAST READINGS:
Stanford Med Writers Forum Next Reading Featuring Readings by the Pegasus Physicians at Stanford:
- "Medicine as Narrative; Narrative as Medicine"
January 26th, 2012
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- "On Becoming and Being a Doctor"
May 26th, 2011