Experience

UNC School of Medicine

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Adjunct Professor

  • Jul 2003 - Present

  I write fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, often about medical subjects. My books include Clowns and Jokers Can Heal Us: Comedy and Medicine (U California Press) First Cut: A Season in the Human Anatomy Lab (Picador USA), Rising from the Flames: The Experienced of the Severely Burned (U Pennsylvania Press), and Our Human Hearts: A Medical and Cultural Journey (Kent State U Press). I write fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, often about medical subjects. My books include Clowns and Jokers Can Heal Us: Comedy and Medicine (U California Press) First Cut: A Season in the Human Anatomy Lab (Picador USA), Rising from the Flames: The Experienced of the Severely Burned (U Pennsylvania Press), and Our Human Hearts: A Medical and Cultural Journey (Kent State U Press).



NC Cancer Hospital

• Massage Therapist

  • Jul 2007 - Dec 2014

  I saw patients in the Bone Marrow Unit for comfort massage, also patients in the Infusion Clinic for hand or foot massage. I worked for the Patient and Family Resource Center; sometimes I gave chair or table massage to a family member of a cancer patient or to staff members. I saw patients in the Bone Marrow Unit for comfort massage, also patients in the Infusion Clinic for hand or foot massage. I worked for the Patient and Family Resource Center; sometimes I gave chair or table massage to a family member of a cancer patient or to staff members.



Eckerd College

• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Professor, Comparative Literature & Humanities

  • Sep 1971 - May 2003

  I taught (with some administration as associate dean) at Eckerd College from 1971 to 2003, taking early retirement in order to write. My home discipline was literature, but I taught, in various years, Bioethics and, with a biologist, The Human Body as an Environment. I taught (with some administration as associate dean) at Eckerd College from 1971 to 2003, taking early retirement in order to write. My home discipline was literature, but I taught, in various years, Bioethics and, with a biologist, The Human Body as an Environment.