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Add a bit of joy and perspective to your practice of healthcare with this humanities-inspired podcast that focuses the lens of art and literature to find fresh views on wellness and illness. Christopher Schifeling, a geriatric and palliative care physician and poet, shares immersive readings and viewings of artwork with a dose of humor. Enriching for any and everyone in healthcare: physicians, nurses, therapists, social workers, pharmacists, first responders, patients, etcetera.
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Send us a text Description: An immersive viewing of The Scream by Edvard Munch with reflection on fear, jaundice, aliens and anxiety. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: By Edvard Munch - National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69541493 References: Friedlaender GE, Friedlaender LK. Edvard Munch and The Scream: A Cry for Help. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2018 Feb;476(2):200-202.&...
Send us a text Description: An immersive reading of Disappear by Andrea Reilly with reflection on clinical spaces, inadequacy, and anorexia. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: Disappear by Andrea Reilly: https://www.alphaomegaalpha.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/C3_AUT23.pdf
Send us a text Description: An immersive reading of The Roses by Seth Peterson with reflection on boundaries, aging and decline. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: Peterson S. The Roses. JAMA. 2025;333(16):1461. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2832004 Seth Peterson: Bluesky: @drsethPT X: @sethpeterson.bsky.social
Send us a text Description: An immersive reading of excerpts from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas translated by Lowell Bair with reflection on alternative and complementary care, rosemary and plot devices Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: excerpts from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas translated by Lowell Bair “My son, all I have to give you is fifteen ecus, my horse, and the advice you’ve just heard. Your mother will give you the recipe for an ointment ...
Send us a text Description: An immersive reading of Forgotten on Sunday by Valerie Perrin translated by Hildegarde Serle with reflection on nursing homes, caregivers, loneliness and dementia. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: “How's it going today, Monsieur Girardot?” "My wife has died." "That was a long time ago, now." "You know, when you've lost the person you loved most in the world, you lose her every day." "How's it going today, Monsieur Duclos?" "Shut it,...
Send us a text Description: An immersive reading of A Hymn to God the Father by John Donne with reflection on medical errors and confession. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: A Hymn to God the Father by John Donne Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, though it were done before? Wilt thou forgive that sin, through which I run, And do run still, though still I do deplore? &...
Send us a text Description: An immersive reading of Thoughts by Myra Viola Wilds with reflection on psychotherapy, meditation, cognitive behavioral therapy and vision loss. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: Thoughts by Myra Viola Wilds In your travels day by day Are they bright and lofty visions, Or neglected, gone astray? Matters not how great in fancy, Or what deeds of skill you’ve wrought; Man, ...
Send us a text Description: A review of the highlights from the Fall 2024 edition of Intima Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: Changing the Bag by Paul Shovlin: https://www.theintima.org/changing-the-bag-paul-shovlin Dear Rescue Worker by Joan Roger: https://www.theintima.org/dear-rescue-worker-joan-roger Inscribed on a Pill Box by Maya Klauber: https://www.theintima.org/inscribed-on-a-pill-box-maya-klauber Omens by Ryan Boyland: https://www.theintima....
Send us a text Description: An immersive reading of The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy with reflection on incontinence, caregivers, and existential distress. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Special arrangements were also made for his stools, and this was a torment to him each time. A torment in its uncleanness, indecency, and smell, in the awareness that another person ...
Send us a text E45 Long Neglect Has Worn Away by Emily Bronte Description: An immersive reading of Long Neglect Has Worn Away by Emily Bronte with reflection on transience and permeance, tuberculosis and facial maladies. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: [Long Neglect Has Worn Away] by Emily Bronte Long neglect has worn away Half the sweet enchanting smile; Time has turned the bloom to gray; Mold and damp the face defile. But that lock of silky hair, St...
Send us a text Description: An immersive reading of Tanka and Haiku by Sadakichi Hartmann with reflection on tanka, haiku, and aging. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: Tanka and Haiku by Sadakichi Hartmann Tanka IX Were we able to tell When old age would come our way, We would muffle the bell, Lock the door and go away Let him call some other day Haikai IV Oh, red maple leaves, There seem more of you these eves Than ever grew on trees References...
Send us a text Description: An immersive reading of A Prayer to the Asvins by Ghosha translated by H. D. Griswold with reflection on physician gods, Gosha, leprosy, praise and gift exchange. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ Work: A Prayer to the Asvins Ghosha translated by H. D. Griswold Your car, the swiftly-rolling:, circumambient, To be saluted day and night by worshippers, Asvins, that car of yours we here invoke, Just as the name of father, easy to entreat. ...
Send us a text Description: An immersive reading of Hope by Joseph Zarconi with reflection on hope, goal concordant care, chemotherapy, and patients with young children. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com References: Zarconi J. Hope. Ann Intern Med. 2024 Apr;177(4):541 https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M23-2289 Feldman DB, Corn BW. Hope and cancer. Curr Opin Psychol. 2023 Feb;49:101506.
Send us a text Description: An immersive reading of On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf with reflection on language, health humanities and bipolar disorder. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com Work: Excerpts from On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf Finally, to hinder the description of illness in literature, there is the poverty of the language. English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache. It has all grown one ...
Send us a text Description: An immersive reading of Sonnet – To Science by Edgar Allen Poe with reflection on sonnets, science, and Greek and Roman mythology. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ Work: Sonnet—To Science By Edgar Allen Poe Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities? How should he love thee?...
Send us a text Description: An immersive reading of Open Windows by Sara Teasdale with reflection on mobility, pain, trees and wonder. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ Work: Open Windows by Sara Teasdale Out of the window a sea of green trees Lift their soft boughs like the arms of a dancer, They beckon and call me, "Come out in the sun!" But I cannot answer. I am alone with Weakness and Pain, Sick abed and June is going, I cannot keep her, she hurries by With t...
Send us a text Description: An immersive reading of two poems, ‘Suicide’s Note’ and ‘Sick Room,’ by Langston Hughes with reflection on suicide, locations of illness and the personification of death. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ Work: Suicide’s Note By Langston Hughes The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. Sick Room By Langston Hughes How quiet It is in this sick room Where on the bed A silent woman lies between two lovers— Life and Deat...
Send us a text Description: An immersive reading of excerpts from Arabian Nights attributed to Scheherazade with translation by Edward William Lane with reflection on leprosy, the ideal clinician and cutaneous treatments. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ Work: The Story of King Yoonan and the Sage Dooban from The Thousand and One Nights attributed to Scheherazade with translation by Edward William Lane. in former times, in the country of the Persians, a monarc...
Send us a text Description: An immersive reading of Spring and All Poem XVI by William Carlos Williams with reflection on signs of illness, jaundice, liver failure, onomatopoeia and poetic apostrophe. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ Work: Spring and All, Poem XVI By William Carlos Williams O tongue licking the sore on her netherlip O toppled belly O passionate cotton stuck with matted hair elysian slobber from her mouth upon the folded handkerchief I can...
Send us a text Description: An immersive reading of A Field of Trilliums by Lori-Anne Noyahr first published in Ars Medica in 2023 with reflection on brain death, anesthesia, liminality and sounds. Website: https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ Work: Noyahr, L.-A. (2023). A Field of Trilliums. Ars Medica, 17(2), 3 pp. Retrieved from https://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/2131 References: De Georgia MA. History of brain death as death: 1968 to the present. J ...
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