Hesam’s works represented here are based on a storytelling process that considers significant health and medical topics around him and how he reflects on them.
Posted: Monday May 6, 2024
Category: Literature and Culture
The WCC team shares the methodology that informed a series of writing workshops for patients at a Toronto-area hospital and insights gained from this model of writing in the community.
Posted: Wednesday March 13, 2024
Ronna Bloom, facilitator of our upcoming Facilitate a Writing Workshop in Your Healthcare Community offering, was featured on The Lift Podcast produced by Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Sitting down with Dr. Mary Elliott, Ronna shares her experience bringing poetry to healthcare workers and speaks about her work with poetry, healthcare professionals, spontaneity, vulnerability, and need. […]
Posted: Wednesday November 1, 2023
“Here’s a poem. It might speak to what you’re experiencing now that hasn’t been articulated yet,” said Ronna Bloom as she prescribed poems to patients and staff in the halls of Mount Sinai Hospital. Poetry has gradually claimed a place in today’s patient-centered medicine. Ronna, a trained psychotherapist and the first Poet-in-Residence at Mount Sinai […]
Posted: Thursday September 21, 2023
Vincent M. Figueredo traces the evolution of our understanding of the heart from the dawn of civilization to the present. More Information from the Publisher
Posted: Saturday April 1, 2023
Ed Cohen draws on his own experience with Crohn’s disease to consider how Western medicine’s turn from an “art of healing” towards a “science of medicine” deeply affects both medical practitioners and patients. More information from the publisher.
Posted: Monday January 30, 2023