Health Care Justice Gathering
January 3-5, 2007
Calling all medical students!!
Come one, come all to the inspiring and thought provoking Health Care Justice Gathering! This yearly activist jamboree is created by medical students, for medical students, and seeks to nurture the budding health care activist through the rigorous challenges of medical school.
Highlights from past HCJ Gatherings have included:
- Workshops with Patch Adams as he regaled the gathering with the history of Gesundheit! and his vision for health care.
- Susan Parenti challenged medical students to dream and create their own ideal vision of health care with her introduction to “Thinking Outside the Box”
- Discussions on pertinent topics, such as Racism in Health Care (Meaghan Coombs), Artists in Health Care (Susan Johnston, RN), Physicians for a National Health Care Program (Gene & Linda Farley, MDs).
- “Laughter Yoga Workshop” by Rolande Kirouac, based on research by Dr. Madan Kataria,
- Emotions, performance, status….with feeling! Workshops presented by Ginevra Sanguigno and John Glick, MD helped medical students keep in touch with their feelings during the emotionally demanding and sometimes dehumanizing challenges of medical school.
- With additional guest instructors to be announced...
Confirmed presenters for this year include: Patch Adams, M.D., of Gesundheit!; Susan Parenti, Ph.D., of the School for Designing a Society; John Glick, M.D., "friendologist", acupuncturist and humorist; Paul Glover, of the Ithaca Health Alliance and PhilaHealthia, author of "Health Democracy,” and "T," a spokesperson for "A World Beyond Capitalism."
Come to beautiful Pocahontas County West Virginia and create with us!!
* Maintain compassion and love in your medical practice!!
* Take responsibility as a community leader!!
* Be an advocate for social justice
* Join us!!
The $150 fee for The Gathering includes sleeping accommodations and all meals. The application deadline is Dec. 3rd.
For more information: contact Jen Jenkins at jenkins@wisc.edu or Meghan A. Coombs at mcombs@tulane.edu
