Your heart is the size of your fist: a doctor reflects on ten years at a refugee clinic

2018-09-19

University of Virginia. School of Medicine

Martina Scholtens worked as a physician at Bridge Refugee Clinic in Vancouver for ten years, caring for patients from around the world. Her book about this work, Your Heart is the Size of Your Fist, is a creative nonfiction account of one Iraqi family’s first year in Canada from her perspective as their doctor. In this Medical Center Hour, Dr. Scholtens explores the physician writer’s obligation to patient, profession, and society and inquires into the legitimization of patient suffering, the concept of medical maternalism, and the challenges of advocacy.

The Moore Lecture of the School of Medicine/Medical Grand Rounds
Co-presented with the Generalist Scholars Program and the Department of Medicine, and offered in conjunction with Primary Care Week at UVA

Scholtens, Martina (Speaker); Childress, Marcia Day (Moderator); University of Virginia. School of Medicine

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Filmed lectures

Refugees--Medical care; Patient advocacy; Physicians as authors

Medical Center Hour

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

English

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