Last week I had the privilege of attending the Canadian Centre of Excellence (CCCE) Summit. It was three days of continuously invigorating, challenging and hopeful discussions. I will write more…
Last week I had the privilege of attending the Canadian Centre of Excellence (CCCE) Summit. It was three days of continuously invigorating, challenging and hopeful discussions. I will write more…
Last week I had the privilege of attending the Canadian Centre of Excellence (CCCE) Summit. It was three days of continuously invigorating, challenging and hopeful discussions. I will write more…
November is a sombre month. The leaves have fallen where I live, and the skies are steely gray. Rain changes to sleet and then back to rain again. Geese cry…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how we communicate with health care professionals. When our loved ones are very sick, they are usually in the hospital and as we…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how we communicate with health care professionals. When our loved ones are very sick, they are usually in the hospital and as we…
Arthur Kleinman understands families like mine. I know he does, because he wrote this: The chronically ill (and their caregivers) often are like those trapped at a frontier, wandering confused…
Arthur Kleinman understands families like mine. I know he does, because he wrote this: The chronically ill often are like those trapped at a frontier, wandering confused in a poorly…
In the days, months and years since my father’s first stroke, since the birth of my two children, since the diagnosis of our son’s disabilities and more recently, since my…
I believe that I have a crush on a man I have never met. His name is Arthur Kleinman and he’s a Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist. I’ve written before about…
Dr. Arthur Kleinman is a psychiatrist and anthropologist who heads the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University. In my last blog post, I talked about the heartbreaking story of…
