News & Media
Summer 2008
Mission magazine
Seeing, Believing, Healing
Three of the Center's student programs are highlighted in this issue of Mission magazine.
July 21,2008
KENS-5 CBS San Antonio
Group Teaches Kids How to Prevent Diabetes
Sarah Lucero highlights the Healthy Choices for Kids program
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July 02, 2008
San Antonio Express-News
West Side: Having good, healthy fun
Healthy Choices for Kids program making an impact on health of junior high students at Good Samaritan Community Center.
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March 1 2008
San Antonio Magazine
Best Doctors of 2008
Dr. Ruth Berggren is featured in the Best Doctors issue of San Antonio Magazine for her work battling infectious disease. Thirteen of the Center's Faculty Associates were also listed as one of San Antonio's best.
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January 1 2008
UTHSCSA
Teaching Excellence Awards
The Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics congratulates associate faculty members Glen Medellin, MD and Magda de la Torre, MPH for being selected as recipients of the Presidential Teaching Excellence Award in 2008.
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December 1 2007
KGNS 08 NBC, Laredo
Frontera de Salud students and faculty volunteers gave free checkups at
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October 18 2007
San Antonio Express-News
Katrina responder to head UTHSC unit
Dr. Ruth Berggren, an infectious disease specialist who stayed for six days caring for patients in flooded Charity Hospital of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, has been named interim director of the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center.
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August 30 2007
San Antonio Express-News
Author reflects on a lifetime of laughter, relationships
Steve Bennett of the San Antonio Express News highlights author Allan Gurganus, keynote speaker of the Center's 2007 Ewing Halsell Distinguished Lecture.
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June 1 2007
Brown Alumni Magazine
The View From The OR
Associate faculty member Chris Coppola discusses his experiences as a military surgeon in the Iraq War.
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May 1 2007
Chicago Tribune
Book Club Good Medicine for Patients, Physicians
Dr. Verghese's book My Own Country is discussed during a meeting of Literature & Medicine, a nationwide program of book discussions for medical professionals.
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March 26 2007
San Antonio Express-News
Historian to discuss polio books
David M. Oshinkshy spoke at the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics 5th Annual Frank Bryant Lecture.
December 2 2006
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
AIDS specialist combines 2 arts to create a science of healing
Abraham Verghese was about 11 or 12 and living in Ethiopia with his parents when he realized he wanted to be a physician - not any old of physician, but a little like Philip Carey, the club-footed, sensitive hero of W. Somerset Maugham's 1915 novel, ���Of Human Bondage���, which he was reading then.
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October 20 2006
Reuters Report
Creative writing may make doctors better
Some doctors might improve their bedside manner by honing their creative writing skills, a small study suggests.
Yale University researchers found that medical residents who completed a creative writing workshop felt the experience helped them better view their patients as people, and not just medical cases.
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October 1 2006
Medical Progress
The Hindu
Dr. Abraham Verghese, best-selling author of My Own Country and Director of the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas, was in India to participate in a two-day conference on clinical ethics. Excerpts from an interview with C.K. Meena.
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June 18 2006
NPR
Abraham Verghese, MD, was interviewed on Weekend Edition on NPR on his summer reading choices on June 18.
June 1 2006
Corpus Christi TV
A group of young doctors, UTHSCSA medical students and volunteers gave up their Saturday to help those living in Nueces County colonias. The gave free checkups at Saint Vivian Catholic Chruch in Petronlia. For some this was the first checkup in years.
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March 1 2006
ACP Observer
Looking to the arts to keep compassion in patient care This internist and well-known author relies on "right-brain" thinking to show that medicine goes beyond science?
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