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Echoes of the heart, a cardiologist discovers his patients through poetry and photography

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Date
2012-10-03
Main contributor
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary
Patients sometimes complain that they are neither heard by nor really known to their doctors especially, perhaps, subspecialists to whom they've been referred for particular procedures and fear that, as a result, they may receive substandard care. Similarly, in fast paced practice, some physicians, including said subspecialists, may find it difficult to know their patients as persons. Cardiologist Joseph Gascho M.D. met these challenges for himself and his patients by devising ways he could hear and know the persons in his care through the media of photography and poetry. This Medical Center Hour examines doctors' use of the arts to improve the care that patients receive. Dr. Gascho describes three projects that have helped him to bridge the patienthood personhood gulf, enabling him to better understand his patients as individuals and to give them whole person care. He is joined by physician Julia Connelly M.D. for whom photography has become a way to bring care and connection with nature to elderly persons, including nursing home residents.
Contributors
Gascho, Joseph A. (Speaker)
Connelly, Julia E. (Speaker)
Childress, Marcia Day (Moderator)
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Publisher
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
Genre
Filmed lectures
Subject
Physician-Patient Relations
Collection
Medical Center Hour
Unit
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
Language
English
Terms of Use
The speakers in this presentation have given the University of Virginia permission to make it freely accessible online for all audiences to view. To request permission to reproduce, republish, and/or repost this presentation please contact the Historical Collections and Services Department of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file, 61:49 min.) : sound, color
Access Restrictions
This item is accessible by: the public.
Other Identifier
Local Identifier: u5964405
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