The Humanities in Medicine Committee of the Lamar Soutter Library, the Worcester District Medical Society and the Beechwood Hotel are hosting a book signing and talk by geriatrician and award-winning writer Louise Aronson, MD, MFA, at UMass Medical School on Wednesday, May 18. Dr. Aronson will read from her book A History of the Present Illness, and discuss how provider and patient stories, whether fictional or true, can improve health and health care.
A finalist for the PEN America debut fiction award, A History of the Present Illness takes readers into the lives of doctors, patients and families in the neighborhoods, hospitals and nursing homes of San Francisco to offer a deeply humane and incisive portrait of health and illness in America today.
Professor of medicine and chief of geriatrics education at the University of California, San Francisco, Aronson provides primary, home hospital and hospice care to homebound older adults, in addition to teaching and writing. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet. Learn more at www.LouiseAronson.com.
The event will be held in the Faculty Conference Room. A reception and book signing will begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by the talk at 6 p.m. Books will be available for purchase.
