"Small Rain: A Reading and Conversation with Garth Greenwell," moderated by Nellie Hermann, has been rescheduled for the Spring of 2025

In the face of yesterday’s election results, we are anxious to meet as a community of practice with our narrative medicine colleagues. The evening will not be a routine NM Rounds but rather will be a way to convene with participants to come to grips with the shocking present. We’ve rescheduled novelist Garth Greenwell to read from Small Rain next spring so that we can use our time together this evening to envision the work ahead of us to protect equitable and just health care in the US. We look forward to seeing you all at 6 pm ET this evening.

A note from Rita Charon, MD, PhD:

"Dear colleagues in Narrative Medicine, We awaken into another world. The results of the US election goad us toward even greater commitment to equitable and just health care for our patients and support and community with our colleagues. Columbia Narrative Medicine joins with our allies in health care, in health education, and in humanities circles to protect and grow our commitments to a racially just and democratically whole community of determination and care." 

Moderator: Nellie Hermann, core faculty of Columbia Narrative Medicine, who has published two novels, The Cure for Grief (Scribner) and The Season of Migration (FSG). Hermann’s non-fiction has appeared in an anthology about siblings, Freud’s Blindspot (Free Press: 2010), as well as in Academic Medicine, The New York Review of Books, and other places. She is the recipient of a 2016 NEA Literature fellowship, a 2017-18 Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, and a 2018-19 fellowship at the Institute for Ideas & Imagination in Paris, France. Her newsletter is The Worldhood of the World.

Narrative Medicine Rounds are monthly rounds held on the first Wednesday of the month during the academic year, hosted by the Division of Narrative Medicine in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Rounds are supported by live captioning. If you have any other accessibility needs or concerns, please contact the Office of Disability Services at 212-854-2388 or disability@columbia.edu at least 10 days in advance of the event. We do our best to arrange accommodations received after this deadline but cannot guarantee them. A recording of our Virtual Narrative Medicine rounds is available following the live session on the Narrative Medicine YouTube channel, and you can watch other recent Rounds events there.