Friends and colleagues,
In accordance with Mayo Clinic’s current policy re: managing exposure to COVID-19, the Dolores Jean Lavins Center for Humanities in Medicine has suspended the following events and programs until further notice:
- Rosemary and Meredith Willson Harmony for Mayo Monday noon concert series: suspended until further notice
- Music is Good Medicine concert series: suspended until further notice
- Medical Improv: suspended until further notice
- All patient and staff scheduled events, workshops, programs: suspended until further notice
The Carillon concerts will continue as scheduled.
In the meantime, we’ve been following many discussions of what to read or view online for information or distraction in the midst of COVID-19 news coverage. We’re providing some links to sources that we hope you’ll find helpful, comforting or entertaining.
The Atlantic
10 Days Later: What Italians Wish They Had Known
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/608113/italy-coronavirus/
The Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine
Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest 2019 Winning Essays
https://www.gold-foundation.org/programs/essay-contest/
Greywolf Press
Paul Lisicky, Later: My Life at the Edge of the World
https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/later
The Guardian
A Dystopian Reading List: books to enjoy while in quarantine
Hektoen International
Jamie Samson, The Other Kingdom
https://hekint.org/2019/05/13/the-other-kingdom/
Kirkus
Novels To Get You Through a Pandemic
MarketWatch
What to stream in a pandemic? Here are 25 comfort shows to binge and get your mind off coronavirus
MedHumChat
Poetry for Healthcare Providers? A Pediatrician’s Prescription
The New Republic
Why You Should Watch Movies About Pandemics, During Pandemics
https://newrepublic.com/article/156970/watch-movies-pandemics-pandemics
The New Yorker
Jill Lepore, It’s Spreading
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/06/01/its-spreading
The New York Times
Your Quarantine Reader: Fearing the worst? Writers have been doing that for centuries. Best pandemic novels from Edgar Allan Poe to Stephen King.
Seven Essential Books About Pandemics
Slate
Decoder Ring Podcast: Rubber Duckie How hot baths, cheap plastic, and Sesame Street helped make the rubber duck.
https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2020/03/rubber-ducks-friendly-floatees-container-spill
The Most Interesting Shakespeare Books, Movies and Websites
Of course, for the most current updates on the coronavirus, use these links:
Mayo Clinic News Network: https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/category/covid-19/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
Minnesota Department of Health: https://www.health.state.mn.us/
Our best wishes to you all,
The Staff of the Dolores Jean Lavins Center for Humanities in Medicine