Reports on the G!I Medical Elective, October 2008

This October the Gesundheit Institute hosted John M Stang MD Medical Elective on the land in West Virginia, under the title "Humanistic Medicine: Constructiing Your Humanism." The eleven participants from four continents were offered inspiring examples from around the world and helpful principles. Together they explored how to incorporate humanism in their own health care careers in service to humanity. The instructors included Inbal and Assi Cicurel MD (whose own story of medical practice in a Kibbutz and Bedouin communities in Israel offered inspiration to attendees of the 2005 Health Care Intensive in Urbana IL); John Glick, Jeptha Davenport, Neil Shulman, Bowen White, and Cari Brackett, long-time stalwarts of the Gesundheit approach; Danielle Chynoweth of the School for Designing a Society; with Maggie Scott, the G!I land manager, ensuring that all were involved in sustainable living on the land.

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