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Jay Baruch will lead talk ‘Medicine in Fiction: Writing Your Way into Trouble’

 

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Jay Baruch, MD, is author of the book Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients and Other Strangers, published in 2007 by the Kent State University Press. 
 
The Humanities in Medicine Committee of the Lamar Soutter Library is hosting a talk with author Jay Baruch, MD, assistant professor of emergency medicine and director of the ethics curriculum at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. The talk Medicine in Fiction: Writing Your Way into Trouble will feature a discussion led by Dr. Baruch and a book signing of his book Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients and Other Strangers, which was published in 2007 by the Kent State University Press.

The publisher describes the book as a “rich collection of short fiction that gives voice to a variety of people who, faced with difficult moral choices, find themselves making disturbing self-discoveries,” and calls Baruch “a welcome addition to the genre of medical narratives—fiction and non-fiction alike—that is becoming increasingly important to medical and nursing schools’ and university curricula.”

The talk and book signing will take place in the Rare book Room on Wednesday, Jan. 11, beginning with a reception at 5 p.m., followed by the talk at 5:30. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.