This post is part of our continuing book profile series featuring excerpts and quotes from the upcoming book, "Creative Arts in Humane Medicine"......
"We created a forum in which residents, attendees and staff nurture the ideals, values, emotions and creativity which motivated us to go into medicine in the first place. It is a space that rarely arises in the technical and scientific day-to-day practice of medicine. Ultimately, this initiative celebrated the artistic, musical and emotional depth of the department which led to a more coherent sense of community, a deeper understanding of our colleagues,, a vital discussion about anesthesia, and a recognition that wellness initiatives for physicians should encompass the arts and humanities."
"Even in this state the heart has reasons that reason knows not. Even in this state, the body sings."
Craig Chen MD, Stanford University School of Medicine
Craig Chen is an anaesthesiology resident at Stanford University Medical Center. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in philosophy, a B.S. in biological sciences and a minor in creative writing. He completed his medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco. Craig writes poetry and creative nonfiction for his medical blog, Asclepion. He received a Healing Arts Poetry Scholarship to attend the 2009 Napa Valley Writer's Conference where he worked with David St. John. He has also written with David Watts, MD, and Sharon Bray, Ed.D.
