Auscultation

Auscultation Podcast
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Auscultation

Add a bit of joy and perspective to your practice of healthcare with this humanities-inspired podcast that focuses the lens of art and literature to find fresh views on wellness and illness. Christopher Schifeling, a geriatric and palliative care physician and poet, shares immersive readings and viewings of artwork with a dose of humor. Enriching for any and everyone in healthcare: physicians, nurses, therapists, social workers, pharmacists, first responders, patients, etcetera.

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    E45 Long Neglect Has Worn Away by Emily Bronte

    Send us a textE45 Long Neglect Has Worn Away by Emily Bronte Description: An immersive reading of Long Neglect Has Worn Away by Emily Bronte with reflection on transience and permeance, tuberculosis and facial maladies. Website:https://anauscultation.wordpress.comWork:[Long Neglect Has Worn Away] by Emily BronteLong neglect has worn awayHalf the sweet enchanting smile;Time has turned the bloom to gray;Mold and damp the face defile.But that lock of silky hair,Still beneath the p...

    15 min

  2. 12/03/2024

    E44 Tanka and Haiku by Sadakichi Hartmann

    Send us a textDescription: An immersive reading of Tanka and Haiku by Sadakichi Hartmann with reflection on tanka, haiku, and aging. Website:https://anauscultation.wordpress.comWork:Tanka and Haiku by Sadakichi HartmannTanka IXWere we able to tell When old age would come our way,We would muffle the bell,Lock the door and go awayLet him call some other dayHaikai IVOh, red maple leaves,There seem more of you these eves Than ever grew on treesReferences:Tanka and Haikai: 14 ...

    14 min

  3. 11/05/2024

    E43 A Prayer to the Ashvins by Ghosha

    Send us a textDescription: An immersive reading of A Prayer to the Asvins by Ghosha translated by H. D. Griswold with reflection on physician gods, Gosha, leprosy, praise and gift exchange. Website:https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ Work: A Prayer to the AsvinsGhosha translated by H. D. GriswoldYour car, the swiftly-rolling:, circumambient,To be saluted day and night by worshippers,Asvins, that car of yours we here invoke,Just as the name of father, easy to entreat.Arouse the lov...

    18 min

  4. 10/01/2024

    E42 Hope by Joseph Zarconi

    Send us a textDescription: An immersive reading of Hope by Joseph Zarconi with reflection on hope, goal concordant care, chemotherapy, and patients with young children. Website:https://anauscultation.wordpress.comReferences:Zarconi J. Hope. Ann Intern Med. 2024 Apr;177(4):541https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M23-2289 Feldman DB, Corn BW. Hope and cancer. Curr Opin Psychol. 2023 Feb;49:101506.

    19 min

  5. 09/03/2024

    E41 On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf

    Send us a textDescription: An immersive reading of On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf with reflection on language, health humanities and bipolar disorder.Website:https://anauscultation.wordpress.comWork:Excerpts from On Being Ill by Virginia WoolfFinally, to hinder the description of illness in literature, there is the poverty of the language. English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache. It has all grown one way. The...

    16 min

  6. 08/06/2024

    E40 Sonnet – To Science by Edgar Allen Poe

    Send us a textDescription: An immersive reading of Sonnet – To Science by Edgar Allen Poe with reflection on sonnets, science, and Greek and Roman mythology. Website:https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ Work:Sonnet—To ScienceBy Edgar Allen PoeScience! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?How should he love thee? or how deem t...

    14 min

  7. 07/02/2024

    E39 Open Windows by Sara Teasdale

    Send us a textDescription: An immersive reading of Open Windows by Sara Teasdale with reflection on mobility, pain, trees and wonder. Website:https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ Work:Open Windowsby Sara Teasdale Out of the window a sea of green treesLift their soft boughs like the arms of a dancer,They beckon and call me, "Come out in the sun!"But I cannot answer.I am alone with Weakness and Pain,Sick abed and June is going,I cannot keep her, she hurries byWith the silver-green o...

    13 min

  8. 06/04/2024

    E38 Suicide Note and Sick Room by Langston Hughes

    Send us a textDescription: An immersive reading of two poems, ‘Suicide’s Note’ and ‘Sick Room,’ by Langston Hughes with reflection on suicide, locations of illness and the personification of death.Website:https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ Work:Suicide’s NoteBy Langston HughesThe calm,Cool face of the riverAsked me for a kiss.Sick RoomBy Langston HughesHow quietIt is in this sick roomWhere on the bedA silent woman lies between two lovers—Life and Death,And all three covered...

    16 min
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Add a bit of joy and perspective to your practice of healthcare with this humanities-inspired podcast that focuses the lens of art and literature to find fresh views on wellness and illness. Christopher Schifeling, a geriatric and palliative care physician and poet, shares immersive readings and viewings of artwork with a dose of humor. Enriching for any and everyone in healthcare: physicians, nurses, therapists, social workers, pharmacists, first responders, patients, etcetera.

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  • Creator
    Auscultation Podcast
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    46
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Auscultation
  • Show Website
    Auscultation

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