Gail Konop Baker lives in Madison - she's the author of the recent book, Cancer is a Bitch; or, I'd Rather be having a Midlife Crisis, published by Perseus Books. Dr. Shaili Jain is a psychiatrist with Aurora Behavioral Health Services and a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She wrote a book about the relationship between physicians and drug companies, and she maintains a website about doctors’ bedside manners. After teaching a recent seminar about narrative medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, they sat down with Mitch Teich, and Shaili Jain discussed the void that narrative medicine seeks to fill.
Amy Kaczmarowski, Courtney Shourt, and Kate Welch are all fourth-year students at the Medical College of Wisconsin - each is enrolled in the elective course called "The Art of Medicine Through the Humanities," which included a discussion of narrative medicine this spring. Click here for more information about the college's Medical Humanities Program. Kate Welch tells Mitch Teich why the humanities are an important part of her medical training.
Tina Owen is the lead teacher of the Alliance School, a gay-friendly charter high school and now middle school in Milwaukee. She tells Stephanie Lecci why Alliance decided to add a middle school.
Milwaukee native Augie Haas is a jazz trumpeter and doctoral student at the University of Miami. His new CD, “Doing it Augie Style,” came out in January – we spoke to him in December. Haas says he wasn’t exactly encouraged to go into music when he was young.
Lake Effect contributor Nancy Camden produced our feature about Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker. The music featured in that story was performed by pianist Jeffrey Wagner. The first annual Lorine Niedecker Wisconsin Poetry Festival is scheduled for October 3rd and 4th in Ft. Atkinson.
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