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Author: Jacqueline Genovese
Stanford Medicine Music Network brings together healers, musicians and music lovers
More than 100 physicians, students and members of the Stanford community gathered last week at the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge for …
"Deconstructed Pain:" Medicine meets fine arts
Stanford's medical school is just steps away from Stanford’s arts corridor, home to the Cantor Art Museum and the newly opened Anderson Collection at Stanford. This …
On death and dying: A discussion of giving news that no family members want to hear
The standing room only crowd at the Stanford Humanities Center had come to hear physicians read their own writing about the most difficult of topics: …
Man on a mission: Working to help veterans who have lost limbs
The student riding the Segway stands out on the bicycle-laden Stanford campus. His short hair and erect bearing suggest he is a veteran. The prosthetic …
A campus-wide call to pause and reflect
A friend once said to me in her warm Virginia drawl, “You know Jacqueline, there is a whole other world on the other side of …
Stanford network launched to connect musicians, music lovers
This week marks the launch of the Stanford Medicine Music Network, an online meeting place for musicians in the Stanford health-care community looking to share …
Medical students and author Khaled Hosseini share their muse with Stanford community
When best-selling author Khaled Hosseini, MD, took the stage at Stanford’s recent Medicine and the Muse symposium, he smiled, shook his head and said, “Those …
The brain whisperer: Stanford neurologist talks about his work, shares tips with aspiring doctors
Josef Parvizi, MD, PhD, knows firsthand how art can influence medicine. While at a concert featuring music created by digitizing space sounds, he was inspired: …
Examining House of Cards' Frank Underwood, "a textbook case of antisocial personality disorder"
Shaili Jain, MD, is a Stanford/Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System psychiatrist and a fan of the television show "House of Cards." These two …
Tig Notaro: Using comedy to deal with cancer was a "godsend"
Stand-up comic Tig Notaro brought her unique brand of comedy to Stanford early this week, and she didn't disappoint the standing-room-only audience of students, faculty, …
Literature and medicine at life’s end
The traditional narrative in American medicine follows a “diagnosis and cure” storyline, with the narrative breaking down or becoming extraordinarily difficult when a cure is …