601. When addiction strikes a family: writing for recovery (59:46)

Date:
2019-02-13
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
Amid the current opioid epidemic in the U.S., discourse around addicts and addiction can be overwhelmingly negative, pessimistic, and hopeless, reinforcing negative stereotypes. Even in health care, negativity about addiction prevails, making it more challenging for clinicians and organizations to respond with appropriate care, services, and resources. The toll of addiction is staggering. But while statistical and fiscal analyses of the national epidemic can also overwhelm and add to the negativity, might we gain a different view of addiction by accessing the particular experience of it, as it affects individuals and also their families? To know better what is at stake and how to foster recovery, this Medical Center Hour turns to poets Kate Daniels and Owen Lewis for their response to addiction when it strikes close to heart and home. How can writing serve to access the lived experience of addiction—in this case, addiction inside the family circle—and how might writing aid in recovery, for everyone involved?

608. Who gets organs for transplant, medical, legal, and ethical views occasioned by the Sarah Murnagh... (1:02:18)

Date:
2013-10-23
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
Questions about transplant candidate suitability and priority made headlines earlier this year, when 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan's parents went to court (and to the media) to request that their daughter, dying of cystic fibrosis, be placed on the eligibility list for a lung transplant. The court's decision, UNOS's followup (Sarah got a new, fictitious birthdate to qualify to receive adult lungs), and Sarah's two double-lung procedures galvanized the transplant community, bioethicists, policymakers, and the public alike. Even as efforts continue to increase the organ supply, what should we do about our allocation systems? In this Medical Center Hour, three experts engage the medical, legal, and ethical questions raised by the Sarah Murnaghan case. Co-presented with the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture

610. Why doctors write: in their own words (1:01:20)

Date:
2021-02-24
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
Many doctors have also been celebrated writers, from Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, and William Carlos Williams to Perri Klass, Atul Gawande, and Maxim Osipov. The reading public (including other doctors) eagerly devours what doctors write, not least in hopes of glimpsing what makes physicians tick, as persons, as healers. But why do doctors write? In this Medical Center Hour, three of UVA's own accomplished physician writers respond, in their own inimitable words. An Ellis C. Moore Memorial Lecture