Ep70 I Dr. Marchalik - The Physician Who Started a Book Club in Medical School and Can’t Seem to Put the Books Down

Interested in thinking more about the intersection between literature and medicine? We were - and found an expert on the topic at the Georgetown School of Medicine.

Dr. Marchalik is the creator and director of the Literature in Medicine Track at Georgetown and the associate director of the Medical Humanities Initiative. He also holds a masters degree in English literature from Georgetown and contributes a monthly column in The Lancet medical journal, where he discusses literature and how it overlaps with medicine and public health.

Join Brendan and Katherine as we talk with Dr. Marchalik about books, why you should keep reading them in medical school and beyond, and how they might even help you fight burnout in medicine. So what are you waiting for? Click on the link already, this episode is clearly a page turner.

Episode produced by: Katherine Mott, Brendan Connolly

Episode recording date: 1/15/2020

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