This Friday don't miss... November 4th Friday Speaker Dr. Larry Hergott 9:30 - 11:30 in the JUC Sanctuary
In-house Registration 11:30 - 1:00 in the JUC Commons Area Registration is not necessary to attend any of the Friday Speakers at OLLI West and Guests are welcome. We do ask that nonmembers pay a $10 fee at the door.
Join us this Friday for our Friday Speaker,Larry Hergott, M.D., then stay for In-house Registration. OLLI West Manager, Susan Schmetzer, Manager Assistant, Dara Hughes, various Winter facilitators plus members from the Curriculum Committee will be on hand to answer questions. Playing the Moonlight Sonata from Memory: Lessons Learned from a Life in Medicine with Larry Hergott, M.D. In this soulful and revelatory lecture, Dr. Hergott will share stories and readings, of others and his, that demonstrate lessons that can be learned from a life in medicine. The lessons are not specific to medical practitioners and their loved ones, but will be recognizable to people of many backgrounds.
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Larry Hergott, M.D., is Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Senior Scholar in Creative Writing at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is an internationally known writer of philosophical essays and poems, largely dealing with how medical practitioners and their loved ones lead the medical life. Several of his writings have been incorporated into medical school curricula, including the University of Chicago and the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Hergott has had two writing awards named after him, one at the University of Colorado and the second cosponsored by Southern Methodist University and Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. Recipients of the latter award include Pulitzer prize-winning author Tracy Kidder and medical writer Dr. Abraham Verghese. As a cardiologist, Dr. Hergott has received numerous awards in clinical excellence and teaching. He is listed annually in Best Doctors in America and Best Doctors in Colorado. Among Dr. Hergott's many accomplishments is obtaining the title of the "gorillas' cardiologist" at the Denver Zoo. He has been treating them for seventeen years. "Once you are in their presence you get this connecting and soulful experience that is hard to describe", he says.
You can view this story on the BBC's news video here: BBC Video