I recall a segment from a TV documentary on the playwright Eugene O’Neill that I saw years ago. In an interview his widow described how she and O’Neill set about destroying sheaves of his unfinished work near the end of his life. “It was like tearing up children,” she said. more»
My latest installment of Notes from a Healer — Like Tearing Up Children — is now online, newly published in the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine.
The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine is an online journal fostering discussion about the culture of medicine, medical care, and experiences of illness. Interested readers can access a list of editorial board members and regular contributors here.