2013 Rosemary Flanigan Lecture:
"How (Future) Doctors Think: Medical Students Make Sense of the World."
On Tuesday, July 30th, 2013, Felicia Cohn was the 19th annual Flanigan lecturer, describing research with medical...
A therapist with 6 children, Seth Haney describes in September 2012 the accident in 2010 that left him with chronic pain and his frustrations with the healthcare system in seeking...
Daniel Goldberg of East Carolina University explains why viewing pain as a disease symptom - rather than a disease itself - has contributed to the neglect of this condition in...
A 2011 Report on Pain by the Institute of Medicine indicates some 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. Author Judy Foreman discusses the book she was writing, A Nation...
In 2012, American Medical News reported two not wholly unrelated articles. One article was about the Supreme Court of Georgia striking down a law intended to prevent assisted suicide. The...
In early 2012, at age 85, Dr. Rosemary Flanigan suffered and survived a heart attack. Fifteen years earlier, Dr. Flanigan wrote: “It makes me mad. There’s a pervasive assumption out...
The Center has promoted Caring Conversations for years as a way for families to prepare for serious illness or the end of life. Over time, it became apparent that, oftentimes...
On October 5, 2011, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported the results of a study indicating that advance directives specifying limits at the end of life may have...
In this short interview, Duke University Professor Karla Holloway, PhD, explored how medical information - typically seen as intimate and private - is forced into the public sphere. The resulting...
