Category: narrative medicine
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Back to School!
Two important announcements this month: Rory
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New – A Special on Car Washes
Link: The Intima – There’s a Special on Car Washes Special thanks to The Intima for publishing a new piece of short fiction from me. “There’s a Special on Car Washes” explores the way life’s big moments happen in the midst of little moments, the way we pivot from the ordinary to the extraordinary and…
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The Lab
A quick plug for the University of Toronto’s “Narrative-Based Medicine Lab” http://narrativebasedmedicine.ca I recently had the opportunity to complete their eight-session Foundational Certificate in Narrative-Based Medicine, led by Karen Gold and Damian Tarnopolsky. Enjoyed meeting a great group of budding writers from all facets of healthcare and from all over North America. A nice balance…
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The Next Chapter
2023 was many things, but if nothing else it was a banner year for my development as a writer. I was lucky enough to have short stories published in Canadian Family Physician, Pulse magazine, and The COVID Journals anthology from University of Alberta Press. I was also lucky enough to participate in the Humber School for…
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New – Traffic Patterns
Link: Traffic Patterns Hot off the press! My short story “Traffic Patterns” was published in this month’s issue of Canadian Family Physician! This is a true story – an account of a fly-on-the-wall moment in the back hall of an emergency room on a sleepy Sunday afternoon. A story about small moments, details, that are…
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A Reading List
As a general rule, when I’m reading in my free time I refuse to read about work. But I have broken this rule for a handful of books that have struck all the right notes of poignancy, humour, and authenticity. They’ve made medicine and healthcare accessible and, most importantly, they’ve told good stories. Here is…
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Mimi Divinsky Award
It was a true honour on November 11th 2022 to accept the year’s Mimi Divinsky Award for History and Narrative in Family Medicine from the College of Family Physicians of Canada. https://www.cfpc.ca/en/home Dr. Mimi Divinkski, who passed away in 2007, was a driving force for narrative medicine in Canada, as well as for a number…
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Coming Soon – The COVID Journals
Link: The COVID Journals Thrilled to be included in this anthology of healthcare workers writing about their COVID19 experience (or in my case, perhaps lack thereof). It’s very exciting to have my short piece “Behind the Front Lines (or The COVID Experience that Never Was)” included alongside some of the finest writers in Canadian narrative…
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Country Doctor
Link: Country Doctor My first published work – was very happy to have this piece selected for the Spring 2019 issue of Columbia University’s online publication Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine https://www.theintima.org/ A fictional account of a seasoned small-town physician’s rush to action in the wee hours of the morning. All at once ordinary…
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A message from Rory
I am a family doctor in Toronto, Canada, with a keen lifelong interest in creative writing, journalism, and memoir. I am particularly engaged in the field of narrative medicine, using narrative principles to reflect on and inform my clinical work. I grew up in small towns in Atlantic Canada, and have worked in a range…
Rory O'Sullivan 