vol. 23
November 2006 Edition

Communication
Somewhere between the desires to understand and to be understood arises the drive to communicate with others - our families, our peers, and our patients. Every patient has a picture to paint for you, but asking closed-ended questions boxes them into a paint-by-number. You might get the right idea, but it won't look quite right. Let them use their own language, their own brushstrokes, and you both will leave more satisfied.

"There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions."

- Ernest Hello (1828-1885)

"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Note: This edition of The Healer's Voice includes a new "HuMed Is" section. It consists of quotes regarding what HuMed is to you. I hope that this will be a feature of future editions, but I need your help to make it possible, so let me know just what "HuMed Is" to you!

		"HUMED IS"
		1. Student depictions
		PROSE
		1. MS III to Mom-MD: One Woman's Decisions Carina Baird, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine 2. Your Shoes, My Shoes Yachna Ahuja, Case School of Medicine
		POETRY
		1. The Forgiving Season Yanan Shang, Medical University of Ohio 2. Letter to Yvonne Anne Manuel, University of California, Davis 3. Wind Fastforward Eric Newman, University of Maryland, College Park 4. He conceded to turn the TV down Megan Greenleaf, University of Vermont College of Medicine 5. Sophia Pamela Hockert, University of California Irvine School of Medicine 6. Praise Everything Melissa deSa, Stony Brook University School of Medicine 7. The #8 Bus Erin Fitch, Oregon Health & Science University
		VISUAL ART 1. Autumn Vishad Sukul, UMDNJ - New Jersey Medical School 2. The Country Shilpa Verma, University of Oklahoma 3. San Kabr Kathleen Shore, Touro University 4. A Dreamer's Eye View Sonya Kenkare, UIC College of Medicine At Chicago 5. Peacock Alley Chrisopher Teng, NYU Medical Center 6. Irish Windmill, Dingle Peninsula Ingrid Hoden, A. T. Still University - Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine 7. Mom In Labour Pains Satya Bhola, University of West Indies, Trinidad Campus 8. Tres Hermanos Angelique Heilig, University of Pennsylvania 9. Navo Mumbai Na Sapnay - "Dreaming of a New Mumbai" Tushar Patel, Tufts University School of Medicine 10. little you-i Alexandra Stanculescu, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health 11. Mother and Child Abimbola Sunmonu, University of Connecticut Cchool of Medicine 12. The Hand of the Healer Yachna Ahuja, Case School of Medicine