Beginning in September 2008, the Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine and the Department of Humanities at Penn State College of Medicine has invited members of the student body, faculty, and medical center staff to participate in the presentation of one-act plays dealing with issues surrounding medical care and medical ethics. Since then a number of regilarly scheduled staged readings followed by discussions with the cast and audience have taken place. Themes of previous presentations have been dementia, assisted suicide, the experience of cancer diagnosis and treatment of ethical dilemm
as in organ transplantation. Staged readings and discussions for the 2012-13 academic year will be:
The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine invites all medical students, faculty and staff interested in participating in the continuation of a medical drama group to contact J.O. Ballard, M.D. at: jballard@hmc.psu.edu or call (717) 531-8778
The Kienle Center Players present:
Follow Your Heart
A staged reading followed by audience discussion with members of the cardiac transplant team
The wife of a man whose organs have been transplanted into several patients seeks solace from her grief in an unusual and ethically questionable way.
by: Richard Selzer, M.D. (Adapted for Medical Reader’s Theatre by Ann Bean) Exclusive performance rights granted from Samuel French
Friday, February 1, 2013 • 12:00 noon • Room C2860
BMR Building Anesthesia Conference Room, Penn State College of Medicine, 500 University Dr., Hershey, PA
This presentation is free and open to the public. No preregistration required. For more information call: (717) 531-8778