Auscultation
Add a bit of joy and perspective to your practice of healthcare with this humanities-inspired podcast that focuses the lens of art and literature to find fresh views on wellness and illness. Christopher Schifeling, a geriatric and palliative care physician and poet, shares immersive readings and viewings of artwork with a dose of humor. Enriching for any and everyone in healthcare: physicians, nurses, therapists, social workers, pharmacists, first responders, patients, etcetera.
Episodes
46 episodes
E45 Long Neglect Has Worn Away by Emily Bronte
E45 Long Neglect Has Worn Away by Emily Bronte Description: An immersive reading of Long Neglect Has Worn Away by Emily Bronte with reflection on transience and permeance, tuberculosis and facial maladies. We...
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E44 Tanka and Haiku by Sadakichi Hartmann
Description: An immersive reading of Tanka and Haiku by Sadakichi Hartmann with reflection on tanka, haiku, and aging. Website:https://anauscultation.wordpress.com...
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E43 A Prayer to the Ashvins by Ghosha
Description: An immersive reading of A Prayer to the Asvins by Ghosha translated by H. D. Griswold with reflection on physician gods, Gosha, leprosy, praise and gift exchange. Website:
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E42 Hope by Joseph Zarconi
Description: An immersive reading of Hope by Joseph Zarconi with reflection on hope, goal concordant care, chemotherapy, and patients with young children. Website:https://...
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E41 On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf
Description: An immersive reading of On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf with reflection on language, health humanities and bipolar disorder.Website:https://anauscultation.wor...
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E40 Sonnet – To Science by Edgar Allen Poe
Description: An immersive reading of Sonnet – To Science by Edgar Allen Poe with reflection on sonnets, science, and Greek and Roman mythology. Website:https://anauscultat...
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E39 Open Windows by Sara Teasdale
Description: An immersive reading of Open Windows by Sara Teasdale with reflection on mobility, pain, trees and wonder. Website:https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ ...
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E38 Suicide Note and Sick Room by Langston Hughes
Description: An immersive reading of two poems, ‘Suicide’s Note’ and ‘Sick Room,’ by Langston Hughes with reflection on suicide, locations of illness and the personification of death.Website:
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E37 excerpts from Arabian Nights attributed to Scheherazade with translation by Edward William Lane
Description: An immersive reading of excerpts from Arabian Nights attributed to Scheherazade with translation by Edward William Lane with reflection on leprosy, the ideal clinician and cutaneous treatments.Website:
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E36 Spring and All Poem XVI by William Carlos Williams
Description: An immersive reading of Spring and All Poem XVI by William Carlos Williams with reflection on signs of illness, jaundice, liver failure, onomatopoeia and poetic apostrophe. Website:
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E35 A Field of Trilliums by Lori-Anne Noyahr
Description: An immersive reading of A Field of Trilliums by Lori-Anne Noyahr first published in Ars Medica in 2023 with reflection on brain death, anesthesia, liminality and sounds. Website:
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E34 Sippokni Sia by Winnie Lewis Gravitt
Description: An immersive reading of Sippokni Sia by Winnie Lewis Gravitt with reflection on the Choctaw Indian Tribe, code switching, aging and the grandmother effect.Website:...
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E33 King Lear by William Shakespeare
Description: An immersive reading of King Lear by William Shakespeare with reflection on dementia, storms and caregivers. Website:https://anauscultation.wordpress.com...
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E32 Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
An immersive reading of excerpts from Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag with reflection on cancer, tuberculosis, metaphors and myths. References:Illness as Metaphor:
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E31 Calavera Catrina by Jose Guadalupe Posada
Description: An immersive viewing of Calavera Catrina by Jose Guadalupe Posada with reflection on skeletons, Halloween and the Day of the Dead. Website:https://anauscultat...
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E30 Sassafras Tea by Effie Lee Newsome
Description: An immersive reading of Sassafras Tea by Effie Lee Newsome with reflection on tea rituals, herbal remedies, the good and hindsight. Website:https://anausculta...
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E29 Gitanjali 8 by Rabindranath Tagore
Description: An immersive reading of Gitanjali 8 by Rabindranath Tagore with reflection on healthful dust, allergies, shared decision making, white coats and scrubs. Website:...
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E28 Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Description: An immersive reading of an excerpt from Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott with reflection on symptoms and treatments for the common cold and the clinician patient relationship. Website:
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E27 An Untitled Poem by King Nezahualcoyotl
Description: An immersive reading of an untitled poem by King Nezahualcoyotl translated by Daniel Brinton with reflection on Nahuatl poetry, memento mori, and flowers.Website:https...
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E26 Alcestis by Rebekka DePew
Description: An immersive reading of Alcestis by Rebekka DePew with reflection on resuscitation, life after death, and work-home balance.Website:https://anauscultation.wordpres...
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E25 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Description: An immersive reading of excerpts from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson with reflection on alcohol withdrawal, bargaining and grey. Website:https://anauscultat...
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E24 The Drunkard’s Child by Francis Ellen Watkins Harper
Description: An immersive reading of The Drunkard’s Child by Francis Ellen Watkins Harper with reflection on alcohol use disorder, repression, and change. Website:ht...
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E23 Death’s End by Cixin Liu translated by Ken Liu
Description: An immersive reading of excerpts from Death’s End by Cixin Liu translated by Ken Liu with reflection on wording, healthcare decision making, family and finances. Website:
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