Friday, April 19, 2024
EMPATHY FROM STORY
Nancy Glass, M.D.
How does a physician give the best possible care to a patient, especially one in hospice where death, hopefully a peaceful one, is the outcome? How does the physician handle their own feelings when that patient dies? Many practitioners are turning to a relatively new model known as narrative medicine, which grounds the physician in an empathy arising from knowing the whole patient and knowing themselves.
 
Our presenter, Dr. Nancy Glass, from Houston, Texas, will share stories of her experiences in pediatric hospice care. She will explain how narrative medicine emphasizes listening to patients’ unique needs arising from their family, culture, language, psychological, and spiritual beliefs. Such an understanding allows the physician to construct a portrait to see beyond the confines of the patient’s medical condition and provide the most caring and effective treatment. This is not the dispassionate physician bed-side manner learned in medical school. This is empathy rooted in story.

In her luncheon presentation, Dr. Glass will share readings from her written work.

Please join us April 19th, 11:30 a.m., at The Cannery Kitchen, 314 E. Alamo St. in Brenham. Register for this luncheon by April 17th.

About the presenter

Dr. Nancy Glass is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine with years of experience in pediatric anesthesiology at Texas Children’s Hospital. Her interest in learning her patients’ stories led her to become a writer of narrative medicine. Numerous publications have featured Dr. Glass’s writing, including Medicine and Meaning, Journal of Narrative Medicine, and Chicken Soup for the Soul. She is the 2022 Writers’ League of Texas general nonfiction manuscript winner and is currently working on a story collection.
Friday, April 19, 2024
​11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

The Cannery
314 East Alamo
Brenham TX
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$25 per person
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Wednesday, April 17th
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