“Calibrating the Physician: Personal Awareness and Effective Patient Care,” Anthony Suchman, MD, JAMA, 1997, Aug 13; 278(6):502-9. (subscription to journal is needed for access)
“The Physical Genius,” Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, August 2, 1999.
“Itzhak Perlman Improvises,” Jack Riemer.
Poem: KINDNESS, Naomi Shihab Nye, Words Under the Words: Selected Poems, Eighth Mountain Press, 1994
Various excerpts, A Short Course in Kindness, Margot Silk Forrest, LM Press, San Luis Obispo, CA 2003.
Introduction, Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore, HarperCollins, 1992.
Chapter One, “Honoring Symptoms as a Voice of the Soul,” Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore, HarperCollins, 1992.
“On Defining Spirit,” Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., IONS Noetic Sciences Review,
Autumn, 1988.“In the Service of Life,” Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, IONS Noetic Sciences Review, Spring 1996. (Article available in The Healer’s Art Syllabus & Resource Guide, at the end of Session 5: The Care of the Soul: Service as a Way of Life)
“The Wreck of Time,” Annie Dillard, Harpers Magazine, January 1998.
“Live Welcoming to All,” Sue Monk Kidd, Weavings, 1997, Vol. 12. (subscription to publication is needed for access)
* “Detoxifying Death for Physicians,” a CME Curriculum by The Institute for the Study of Health and Illness at Commonweal.
Poem by Vivekan Flint, for special use by The Institute of the Study of Health and Illness. “Wounded Healers: A book of poems by people who have had cancer and those who love and care for them” Edited by Rachel Naomi Remen, MD. 1994

The Healing Team

“Reverend Bill and Other Healers,” Toby Schneider, The Offering: An Unexpected Journey, 2005.

Finding Resilience in Our Training

“Medical Education: A Neglectful and Abusive Family System” Catherine P. McKegney, MD, Family Medicine, 1989, Nov-Dec; 21(6):452-7. (subscription to journal is needed for access)

Finding Resilience in Our Profession

“The Gathering of Physicians,” Matthew Zwerling, MD, Sonoma Medicine, Spring 2003, Vol. 54, No. 2.
“The Doctor’s Dilemma,” Rachel Naomi Remen MD, Whole Earth, Summer 2000. (subscription to publication is needed for access)

The Physician’s Impact & The Patient’s Touch

“Of Dragons and Garden Peas: A Cancer Patient Talks to Doctors,” Alice Stewart Trillin, The New England Journal of Medicine, 1981, March; 304(12):699-701. (subscription to journal is needed for access)
“Recapturing the Soul of Medicine: Physicians Need to Reclaim Meaning in Their Working Lives,” Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, Western Journal of Medicine, 2001, Jan; 174(1):4-5.?
“What Makes the Patient-Doctor Relationship Therapeutic?” Anthony L. Suchman, MD, Annals of Internal Medicine, 1988, Jan; 108(1):125-30. (subscription to journal is needed for access)
“The Medical Uses of Hope,” William M. Buchholz, MD, Western Journal of Medicine, 1988 Jan; 148(1):69.
*** “A Piece of My Mind: Toward Meaning,” Bruce D. Feldstein, MD, JAMA, 2001, Sep; 286(11):1291-2. ?(subscription to journal is needed for access)
“Narrative and Medicine,” Rita Charon, MD, PhD, New England Journal of Medicine, 2004, Feb 26; 350(9):862-4. (subscription to journal is needed for access)
*** “Yeshi Dhonden,” by Paul Gorman and Ram Dass, How Can I Help?, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
“A Piece of My Mind: The Bless Cloth,” Dwalia South MD, JAMA, 2004, Mar; 291(9):1043-4. (subscription to journal is needed for access)

Perhaps Unexplainable- Facets of Medicine and Intrigue

“Childhood Near-Death Experiences,” Melvin Morse, MD, et al, American Journal of Diseases of Children, 1986, Nov; 140(11): 1110-4. (subscription to journal is needed for access)
“A Neurologist’s Notebook,” Oliver Sacks, The New Yorker, March 16, 1992. (subscription to publication is needed for access)
“The Prescription is Meditation,” Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, Shambhala Sun, September 1999.
“Faith Healing, Placebo Effects and Imagery,” Martin Rossman, MD, Healing Yourself: a step-by-step program for better health, New York: Walker and Company, 1987.
*** “The Inner Life of the Healer: The Importance of Shamanism for Modern Medicine,” Larry Dossey, MD, in: Shaman’s Path: healing, personal growth & empowerment, Boston: Random House, 1988.
“I Died at 10:52 A.M.,” Victor D. Solow, Reader’s Digest, 1992.? Open access from the TAT foundation, www.tatfoundation.org; article originally appears in the October, 1974 Reader’s Digest. Reprinted by permission from Mrs. Victor D. Solow.

The Healing & Medicine in Pain, Suffering, and Death

“The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine,” Eric J. Cassel, MD, The New England Journal of Medicine, 1982 March 18; 306(11):639-45. (subscription to journal is needed for access)

FIVE POEMS ON DEATH

“In Blackwater Woods,” Poem by Mary Oliver “When Death Comes,” Poem by Mary Oliver both poems by Mary Oliver are in the book New and Selected Poems, Boston:BeaconPress, 1992
“I Will Not Die An Unlived Life,” Poem by Dawna Markova published in the book I Will Not Die an Unlived Life:Reclaiming Purpose and Passion by Dawna Markova, Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, 2000
“After the Blue,” Poem by Bryce Kellams, MD, special use by the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness, 1997 – Unable to locate
“Shroud,” Poem by Ellen Mauck Lessy. Published in the book Breast Cancer: Beyond Convention edited by Tagliaferri, Cohen, and Tripathy. New York: Atria Books, 2002.
“The Death of Ivan Ilych,” Leo Tolstoy, Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories, London: Oxford University Press, 1960.

* CME

*** For those that are spiritual

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