Jay Baruch (writer, emergency room doctor, professor of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University) joins us from Providence, Rhode Island to trace where his interest in story, narrative, and medicine began. Jay shares stories from his career that illustrate how we can keep these interests joined and alive. In particular, he describes the benefits that working narratively has in the emergency room. He also shares his writing process and some exciting news about his current writing projects.

Jay’s latest book of non-fiction essays is Tornado of Life: A Doctor’s Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER (MIT Press, 2022). He’s the author of two short fiction collections: What’s Left Out (Kent State University Press, 2015) and Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers (Kent State University Press, 2007).

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