Featuring Daniela Lamas
We spend lots of our time in medicine communicating through research – standardized, peer-reviewed, and of course crucial! But medicine is full of compelling humanistic narratives. The great Marshall Ganz once wrote, in an article entitled “Why Stories Matter,” that “A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That’s the power of story.” This week, we focus on narrative medicine and we are joined by a master physician storyteller, Daniela Lamas, who just published her first book, called You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor’s Stories of Life, Death, and In Between.
Also, we want to hear from you! To entice you to talk to us, we are going to give away a signed copy of Daniela’s book to a randomly selected commenter or emailer who sends us feedback, suggestions, or comments! You can write to us at audreyATrospod.org or tweet us @RoSpodcast or @HMSPrimaryCare, or leave a message on our facebook page. Just write to us or tweet at us or leave a facebook comment or email us, and your name will go into the hat for a random drawing. We’ll announce the randomly drawn winner next week!