Guest Post: Medicine and Poetry, Not so Far Apart after All
By Douglas Landon Hester, an anesthesiologist whose academic work focuses on airway management and resident education
I suspect I’m a poet and a physician for the same reasons. In both, small details define major issues. In both, precision matters. In both, the right word in the right way can help someone. In both, I believe I’m using talents as a steward. In both, there is a wonderful tension between science and art.
In both, relationships are ultimately the bottom line. Whether I am offering a specific drug or procedure or I am trying to connect with a reader I have never met, it is the common humanity between us that allows me to be a physician and a poet.
Medicine and poetry are, for me, about people. I’m blessed to do both.
Posted on April 24, 2015, in Events, Hot Topics and tagged Douglas Landon Hester, guest post, Poet MDs, poetry, Vanderbilt University. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
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