Humanizing Medicine with Ethan Stonerook

Ethan Stonerook is an assistant professor at the Wake Forest School of Medicine, where he teaches relationship centered communication, personal and professional identity development, and medical humanities. Ethan primarily does this through the lens of stories.

estonero@wakehealth.edu

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethan-stonerook-4878467

"We're not machines to be fixed, but wayfarers to be attended.”
Dr. Warren Kinghorn   https://twitter.com/warrenkinghorn

George Saunders "The Falls" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/01/22/the-falls

The Christian Plummet, by George Herbert 

 

Tenth of December, by George Saunders. Saunders is masterful at putting us in the heads of others, and in turn, causing us to empathize with people we might normally put in categories beyond our reach or moral comfort zone. Tenth of December, Puppy and The Falls are great fodder for getting people to start talking about themselves, fears, hopes, assumptions about life, who they think they are, want to be, wish they weren't etc.