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I appreciate you taking the time to visit this blog. Some posts are longer, being papers written by invitation, others are short, capturing the feeling of the moment. You're invited to suggest topics and share your reaction or thoughts. Thank you for tuning into this quest to seek meaningful work and lives of joy where we can appreciate ourselves, our world, family, friends and folks. Sincerely, Mei Lin

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Health Care Organizational Ethics: Improving Health By Telling, and Hearing, Stories

Jim Sabin teaches at the Harvard Medical School and is a voice of reason that I appreciate.

His blog post resonates with the poem I wrote as a "cover+mashup" of Edna St Vincent Millay's poem

Upon this gifted age in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of fact.....
There exists no loom to weave it into fabric

Mei Lin's riff quoted in this blog before but with the Stories highlighted

Upon our gifted age in our dark hour
Falls from the sky a meteoric shower of STORIES
of beauty and compassion that go unremarked and unrecognized
Wisdom enough to nurture lives and grow joy is daily spun
So let us conceive the loom to weave this wisdom into the fabric of our daily lives


Health Care Organizational Ethics: Improving Health By Telling, and Hearing, Stories: "The January issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine has a fascinating and important report of a randomized controlled trial of storytellin..."

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