That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour Feat. Sunita Puri

That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour Feat. Sunita Puri

Physician & Author Sunita Puri delivers 2021 Ewing Halsell Distinguished Lecture: "That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour"

By Cheever Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics

Date and time

Wednesday, October 27, 2021 · 12 - 1pm CDT

Location

UT Health Science Center San Antonio, Holly Auditorium

7703 Floyd Curl Dr Holly Auditorium San Antonio, TX 78229

About this event

Medicine’s purpose is often thought of as preventing or overcoming disease, illness or injury. But there is growing recognition that medical professionals have a role even when these outcomes may not be possible. In the 2021 Ewing Halsell Distinguished Lecture, physician-author Sunita Puri, MD, shares insights from her work in palliative care, pointing toward a broader definition of a “good outcome." She will also draw on her experiences as a writer and examine the ways that palliative medicine and writing shape and are shaped by each other. Her experiences vividly illustrate that sometimes the most profound way a physician can improve quality of life for a patient and their family involves something other than medical intervention.

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Cheever Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics

We strive to be a leading Center educating medical students and health professionals in ethics and professionalism while nurturing empathy and humanitarian values. We fulfill our mission by:

    • Preparing students to identify, analyze and resolve moral conflicts in patient care and medical research;

 

    • Deepening the attentiveness to patients that will persist throughout students' medical careers through exposure to excellent clinical role modeling, arts and letters; and

 

  • Developing a distinguished interdisciplinary community service learning program that focuses on ethics in action and serves as a bridge between ethics education and development of empathy and humanitarian values.

The Center focus on four key areas: Literature and Art, Medical Ethics and Professionalism, Community Service Learning and Global Health

http://www.texashumanities.org

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