{"id":147650,"date":"2019-06-20T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T17:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/?page_id=147650"},"modified":"2022-05-30T23:11:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T03:11:58","slug":"the-desire-to-heal-a-doctors-education-in-empathy-identity-and-poetry","status":"publish","type":"conversation","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/conversations\/diversity-and-inclusion\/the-desire-to-heal-a-doctors-education-in-empathy-identity-and-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Desire to Heal: A Doctor\u2019s Education in Empathy, Identity, and Poetry<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/files\/2019\/06\/090419-PHF-DesiretoHeal-400x600.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" width=\"250\" \/>Wednesday, September 4, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4:30\u20136:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 80%; line-height: 100%; text-transform: uppercase;\">doors open, 4 p.m.<\/h6>\n<p>Hiebert Lounge<br \/>\n72 East Concord Street<br \/>\nBoston<\/p>\n<p>#DesireToHeal #SPHReads<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"highlight1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>EVENT HIGHLIGHTS<\/h4>\n<h6 style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\">Empathy in Medicine<\/h6>\n<div class=\"responsive-video\"><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/interface\/embed\/embed.html?v=100wLE0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"highlight2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\">Importance of Identity<\/h6>\n<div class=\"responsive-video\"><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/interface\/embed\/embed.html?v=9ZTKW0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"highlight3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\">Poetry in Patients\u2019 Words<\/h6>\n<div class=\"responsive-video\"><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/interface\/embed\/embed.html?v=1t1nFu0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>SPH Reads is a school-wide program hosted by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. The 2019 selection, nominated by the Queer Alliance, is <em>The Desire to Heal: A Doctor\u2019s Education in Empathy, Identity, and Poetry<\/em>, by Rafael Campo.<\/p>\n<p>A memoir published in 1997, <em>The Desire to Heal<\/em> is a collection of essays exploring the author\u2019s Cuban-American identity, his coming to terms as a gay man and physician during the emergence of HIV\/AIDS in America, and his inescapable bond to the young patients\u2014mostly brown-skinned gay men\u2014he and his colleagues could not keep from dying.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rafael Campo is a physician and a poet. He is a primary care practitioner at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a professor at Harvard Medical School. He has published eight books of poetry and won several poetry awards. He is the editor of the Poetry and Medicine section of the <em>Journal of the American Medical Association<\/em> (JAMA).<\/p>\n<h4>Speaker<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sph\/files\/2019\/06\/Rafael-Campo-100x125.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" width=\"100\" height=\"125\" \/>Rafael Campo, Poet and Physician, Harvard Medical School<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Read More<\/h6><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">Dr. Rafael Campo teaches and practices internal medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he also directs the Art and Humanities Initiative\u2019s Literature and Writing Program. Author of nine highly acclaimed books, his honors and awards include a Guggenheim fellowship, an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Amherst College, a National Poetry Series award, and a Lambda Literary Award for his poetry; his third book, <em>Diva<\/em>, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and his fifth, <em>The Enemy<\/em>, won the Sheila Motton Book Prize. His work has appeared in the <em>Best American Poetry<\/em> and <em>Pushcart Prize<\/em> anthologies, and in many periodicals including <em>American Poetry Review, The Hudson Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, The Poetry Review (UK)<\/em> and elsewhere. His poetry has been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, German, Chinese, and Turkish. He lectures widely, with recent appearances at TEDx Cambridge, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Library of Congress. His new and selected volume of poems, <em>Comfort Measures Only<\/em>, is now available from Duke University Press. For more information, please visit www.rafaelcampo.com.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jerome Groopman, writing in the <em>New York Times Book Review<\/em>, says of his work, \u201cValuable and moving&#8230;he is undaunted by the ugliness of the physical deterioration apparent before his eyes, seeking always to capture the beauty of the human soul in struggle with physical reality;\u201d while the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> proclaims it \u201creminiscent of Chekhov&#8230;in the way language comes up out of the body.\u201d The poet Sydney Lea, in a review for <em>The Hudson Review<\/em>, affirms \u201cCampo chooses ritual gatherings not to celebrate our alienations, but our commonality, in which for the good doctor hope resides. Rafael Campo is inevitably a poet of heartbreak, yet he remains a poet of accompanying hope.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, September 4, 2019 4:30\u20136:00 p.m. doors open, 4 p.m. Hiebert Lounge 72 East Concord Street Boston #DesireToHeal #SPHReads &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; EVENT HIGHLIGHTS Empathy in Medicine Importance of Identity Poetry in Patients\u2019 Words SPH Reads is a school-wide program hosted by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. 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