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Art of Medicine Rounds

April 2025

The Beauty of a Diversified Life - Rev. Dr. Daniel Paul Morrison

April 3, 2025

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The beauty of a diversified life:

When biochemists, clergy, and composers become rascals, rogues, and rapscallions

Reverend Dr. Daniel Paul Morrison

Portrait of Daniel Paul Morrison

For the past 20 years, Daniel Paul Morrison has been the Senior Pastor at Huntingdon Valley Presbyterian Church in suburban Philadelphia. Prior to ordination, he taught philosophy at two Catholic universities in Pittsburgh. As an independent scholar, he has published and presented on such diverse topics as hospital chaplaincy in interfaith settings; the abolitionist Theodore Sedgwick Wright, the first African American graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary; ethical questions about transplantation and immunization; and the Bethlehem Steel Soccer Club, a renowned team in the early-20th century.  He and his wife were born in Switzerland and live with their teenage daughter 13.8 miles due north of the Liberty Bell.

March 2025

Helping physicians become better healers: A prescription of poetry and art - Stacy R. Nigliazzo, MSN, RN, CEN

March 6, 2025

Short-haired woman holding up an origami crane in the palm of her hand.

Helping physicians become better healers: A prescription of poetry and art

Stacy R. Nigliazzo, MSN, RN, CEN

Stacy R. Nigliazzo is a nurse and the author of three books of poems published by Press 53: Scissored Moon, Sky the Oar, and My Borrowed Face. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications including the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the Bellevue Literary Review. She is an Imprint Brown Foundation Fellow at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program and a founding member of the Humanities Expression & Arts Lab (HEAL) at Baylor College of Medicine.

February 2025

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The Physician Who Became Suddenly Disabled: A Different Kind of Life

Mark Langer, MD, CCFP

Portrait of Dr. Mark Langer

Mark Langer, MD. CCFP is a disabled physician now living in a Continuing Care facility in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Prior to developing a brain tumor, he practiced as a full-scope generalist serving a northern Canadian village of 900, provided Emergency Room and inpatient coverage for a rural/remote hospital, acted as a faculty clinical preceptor with the department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta, and was a representative with the Northern Health Authority. He now spends his time listening to audiobooks, following professional hockey, and being a full-time grandfather.

January 2025

Portraits and Stories of Addiction: The Into Light Project - Dr. Georgia Rhodes

January 9, 2025

hand drawn sketch of Will Irvin

Portraits and Stories of Addiction: The Into Light Project

Dr. Georgia Rhodes

Portrait of Dr. Georgia Rhodes

Into Light is a national art project that seeks to address the misconception that people with addiction are to blame for their illness and to offer healing and hope and create meaningful dialogue about substance use disorder.

Dr. Georgia Rhodes is an audiologist and the mother of two adult boys, one of whom was lost in 2012 to the ravages of substance use. Based on that experience she became involved with the national non- profit, Into Light Project, and now serves as an Alabama co-ambassador of the group.

January 2025

“The Ethics of Empathy in the 21st Century” - Tracy Moniz, PhD and Paul Haidet, MD, MPH

January 7, 2025

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An artwork featuring a man caring for a sick man

The Ethics of Empathy in the 21st Century

Tracy Moniz, PhD and Paul Haidet, MD, MPH

Portrait of Dr. Tracy Moniz

 

Dr. Moniz is president of the Canadian Association for Health and Humanities. An associate professor of Communication Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, she teaches health communication and conducts research on the use of reflective writing to advance humanistic healthcare.

 

 

Portrait of Dr. Paul Haidet

 

Paul Haidet, MD, MPH, a general internist, is professor of Medicine, Humanities, and Public Health Sciences at the Penn State College of Medicine where he also serves as the inaugural director of Medical Education Research. He has written extensively about humanistic healthcare, and he is currently exploring improvisational aspects of patient-physician communication.