Summer sojourn...
...and words to turn
Notes of Summer
Hello, Doctor! Has summer taken you to far flung places or given you down time close to home? What have your summer adventures inspired in you? Have you encountered other cultures, interesting food, amazing scenery, or moments of zen? Any poignant or funny stories?
Capture your experiences in words. Express. Influence. Inspire.
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In This Issue
Shall We Have Another?
All Aboard the Membership
Penned
Primer Care
Sub Verse
Getting Acquainted
The Pages Grow
Shall We Have Another?
The next Writing & Storytelling in Healthcare is tentatively slated for Sunday, December 7. Before making it official, though, I would like to know if there is a critical mass of interest for this event.
The three-hour virtual writing conference would feature:
doctors who write as insightful guest speakers
a group creative writing exercise
feedback on your writing
Please elaborate on your response so I can better understand what you would like or need in a virtual writing conference.
Let me know your thoughts, and watch for an upcoming issue of Healing Ink™ for an update.
All Aboard the Membership
Are you stuck on your writing? Do you need a boost from an experienced writer and author for feedback and accountability? Get monthly one-on-one writing support with me. Sign up for an eight-month membership here:
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Penned
In the August issue of DocWriteRx™, read the words of dermatologist Dr. Derrick Adams about a tense situation at work. It will come to your inbox on August 9th.
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Primer Care
This month in the primer, more on narrative medicine with Part III: The Future.
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Sub Verse
Get your words in an upcoming issue of DocWriteRx™!
Please write 100 to 500 words on one of these topics…
How do you engage with patients who are facing a terminal illness?
Describe an encounter with a physician extender that sticks with you.
What is the most pressing issue in medicine today?
Feel free to get creative. You may write a short story, a play, flash, a greeting card. Show us what you’ve got.
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Getting Acquainted
It’s my birthday month. Here’s a birthday-related fun fact about me:
My birthplace and my hometown are not one and the same.
I was born in Nashville, Tennessee. My father was finishing up his ophthalmology residency at Vanderbilt. When I was still an infant, my parents moved to Morgantown, West Virginia because my mother found a job as a dietician at West Virginia University Hospital. Therefore, I grew up in Morgantown, and it was a wonderful place to be raised.
Having a university at my doorstep, I had a myriad of educational and extracurricular resources at my disposal. Music, theater, sports, languages — all of these experiences enriched my childhood and shaped who I am today. My proclivity and appreciation for the creative is part of why, in my third professional chapter, I’m now an author.
Where did you grow up? How has it influenced you?
If you’re new here, feel free to catch up and get acquainted in my archives:
The Pages Grow
“August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between the pages.”
See you next month for the next dose of Healing Ink™.
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— Maria Simbra, MD, MA, MPH, Director and Principal of Ironed Words Productions, LLC