EP 84: Designing Healthcare through Stories | Jay Baruch

Does creativity help physicians care for their patients? Can making
space for stories improve healthcare? How does imagination come
into play in the practice of Medicine? Jay Baruch is a Professor of
Emergency Medicine at Alpert Medical School of Brown University,
where he directs the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Scholarly
Concentration. He's a practicing ER doc, writer and educator. His
upcoming book of non-fiction, narrative essays is: Tornado of Life:
A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER
(MIT Press, fall 2022) He is also the author of two award-winning
short fiction collections, "What's Left Out" and and "Fourteen
Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers" (Kent State
University Press, 2007). His academic work emerged as a response to
the realization that medical training didn't prepare him for the
complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity that pervades patient care.
His teaching involves interdisciplinary collaborations and pushing
boundaries with people who hold different expertise and ways of
looking at the world. His innovative collaborators have included
brilliant museum educators, designers, and artists. Past honors
include Director-at-Large, American Society for Bioethics and
Humanities, the medical humanities section chair for the American
College of Emergency Physicians, and faculty fellow at the Cogut
Institute for the Humanities at Brown University. He received the
inaugural Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Gold Humanism
Award and the Brown Emergency Medicine, Innovations in Education
Award. His current work focuses on arts and health and designing
authentic spaces for fostering difficult conversations. Episode
Mentions: Jay Baruch, MD. Doctoring and writing, creatively Book:
Tornado of Life. A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and
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