South Island MSA Reads…”If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It’s So Hard for Clinicians to Put Patients First” by Dr. Wendy Dean

Looking for a good book? Here’s one! It’s available for you to borrow from our South Island MSA Lending Library, located in the Doctors’ Lounges at RJH and VGH. From Goodreads: Through stories and solutions, leading physicians tackle the conundrum of how best to care for patients while being thwarted […]

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South Island MSA Reads…”This is Assisted Dying: A Doctor’s Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life” by Dr. Stefanie Green

Looking for a good book? Here’s one!  It’s available for you to borrow from our South Island MSA Lending Library, located in the Doctors’ Lounges at RJH and VGH. From Goodreads: An international bestseller, this compassionate memoir by a leading pioneer in medically assisted dying who helps suffering patients explore […]

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Indigenous Books in our Lending Library

Next time you’re in the Doctors’ Lounge at RJH or VGH, take a look on the bookshelf for Indigenous-focused books in our Lending Library: Braiding Sweetgrass: “Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, […]

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South Island MSA Reads…”Far from the Tree: Parents, children, and the search for identity” by Andrew Solomon

Looking for some good books?  Here’s one!  From Goodreads: Andrew Solomon’s startling proposition in Far from the Tree is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition—that difference is what unites us. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down’s syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, or multiple severe […]

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