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WhiteCoat Wisdom

 

 

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White
Coat Wisdom

Author

Speaks March 9, UM-Dearborn Campus


(Madison) February 14, 2012—Stephen
J. Busalacchi, the author of the award-winning oral history, White Coat Wisdom, will speak at the
University of Michigan-Dearborn campus on March 9 at 1:30. The presentation
will be at the CASL building, room
1030, 4901 Evergreen Road. The presentation is free and open
to the public.

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            Busalacchi
is a medical journalist and honorary fellow at the University of Wisconsin School
of Medicine and Public Health. His book was named a "USA Best Books 2011:
finalist in the health category. It also earned first place in the health
category of the Eric Hoffer Book Award.

            "White Coat Wisdom is a compelling,
enlightening, and skillful work of oral history," says Dave Isay, Founder
of StoryCorps, heard on NPR. "An absolutely fascinating book. Studs Terkel
would be proud!"

           Most people
have a family doctor, but how well do they really know him or her? In his book,
Busalacchi introduces readers to physicians who discuss unique experiences with
lessons for everybody. In doing so, readers receive practical advice for
solving society’s and individuals’ intractable health problems.

            "If
you hope to understand what it means to be an excellent physician, the doctors
in White Coat Wisdom provide gripping
examples of their most excruciating and joyful experiences," says Michael
Bliss, PhD, History of Medicine, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto.

            White Coat Wisdom is about the grit
necessary to overcome substantial obstacles and ultimately discover true
fulfillment in one’s personal and professional life. And in the process of
hearing how these doctors came to be, readers learn insights about medicine
that will help them better their own lives.

            Stephen J. Busalacchi has more than
25 years of experience in medical journalism. He has reported for National
Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Radio, and has received more than two dozen
journalism awards, in addition to public relations awards.

“Doctors' lives are always interesting, especially when the reader
is allowed behind the curtain. White Coat Wisdom is a good read for
anyone, but of course, of special interest to the growing number involved in
health and medicine."—C. Everett Koop, MD,
U.S. Surgeon
General, 1981-1989.




 

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