On the Power of Telling Our Stories
By Stephanie Harman, MD
Writer Laurel Braitman in the garden at her home in Santa Paula, Calif. She teaches med school students and residents at Stanford, as well as medical professionals around the world, how to write about their difficult experiences and share them. DANIA MAXWELL FOR STAT
Our department is a community filled with so many stories. A recent STAT News article spotlighted the ways Laurel Braitman, writer-in-residence at Stanford’s Medicine and the Muse Program, is teaching and facilitating clinicians writing their stories. The article features members of our department, Natasha Steele, MD, from Hospital Medicine and Shireen Heidari, MD, from Primary Care and Population Health, and the power of telling our stories.
For Women in Medicine Month, we have invited women in our community to tell their stories. In upcoming DoM newsletters, each one will open with a perspective written by a member of our community—faculty, staff, and trainees.
Coming Up
- September 12th: Ilana Yurkiewicz, MD, a graduate of both our internal medicine residency and hematology and oncology fellowship, has just published a book on her experience trying to make sense of our modern healthcare system.
- September 19th: DoM human resources manager Shauna Cruz is an invaluable resource to staff and faculty on HR policies, procedures and practice.
- September 26th: TBA
