The Recovering Academic
Joshua Doležal, MDs, Kimberly Warner, Damon Tweedy, Holly Starley, Istiaq Mian, MD, Amy WalshRebuilding a life and a writing practice after leaving academe.
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Doctors Should Read Derrida
will join me next week for another live interview in this year’s series. I’ve been reading some of her work to prepare, and today I want to think a little about one of her coauthored opinion pieces.
“The New Clinician-Scholars—Dual Trainin...
After Fifty It Rains Death
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Willa Cather famously said that after age fifty it rains death. That’s not news to most of the world, but Americans keep getting surprised by that truth because there’s so little literature about grief.
We like novels about...
What's Named And What's Withheld
“That's what a storyteller's job is. What do you relay and what do you withhold? And frankly, that's the chronic illness storyteller's mode as well. What am I going to tell this doctor in front of me and what am I going to withhold?”
Dr. M...
Louie Didn't Die Of Alcoholism
Noah Wyle as Dr. John Carter (left) and Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch (right). From Yahoo,
I was a college sophomore in 1994, when the hit show E.R. debuted. So watching “The Pitt” has piqued some nostalgia, along with sobering reminders...
A Reality TV Star Wrote A Better Memoir Than Most MFA Graduates
Photo by Joshua Doležal
Wreckage has been on my mind a lot lately. Breaking points. The before and after, and how we put ourselves together again.1
Three of my clients are writing books that reckon with the past in an attempt to find sure...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Author of a memoir and a poetry collection. Essays in Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Founder and director of Unfixed—a multi-media company that explores how adversity can broaden our definition of what it means to live a “good life.”
I nomad & write to connect with self, others, the world. I write & read for the joy of words pouring from me into you & vice versa.
Physician from Madison, Wisconsin. I write about human behavior through memoir and narrative medicine. Words in New York Times Modern Love. On sabbatical \ud83d\udccdDhaka, Bangladesh \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde9
Emergency physician, mother, herbalist and artist. My doctor/political alter-ego writes at FeminEM, my witchy, plant-loving alter-ego writes at The Nettle Witch, MD.
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