2025: Theme - "Identity"
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Location
Clark-Fox Forum at Hillman Hall
Start Date
19-3-2025 6:00 PM
End Date
19-3-2025 9:00 PM
Description
Dr. Joshua Nordman is an infectious disease fellow. He shared a personal story of grief.
Excerpt:
"...It was in moments like this that I began to ask dangerous but ultimately necessary “why?’ questions. “Why did these patients survive, and why did my father not?” I began to see each patient as my father, hitching my emotions to each of them as I hoped, prayed, and begged for their survival. Selfishly, I saw the patients’ stories not as their own but as my father’s, their families not really theirs but my own."
Grieving with Heart
Clark-Fox Forum at Hillman Hall
Dr. Joshua Nordman is an infectious disease fellow. He shared a personal story of grief.
Excerpt:
"...It was in moments like this that I began to ask dangerous but ultimately necessary “why?’ questions. “Why did these patients survive, and why did my father not?” I began to see each patient as my father, hitching my emotions to each of them as I hoped, prayed, and begged for their survival. Selfishly, I saw the patients’ stories not as their own but as my father’s, their families not really theirs but my own."
Comments
Access limited to Washington University in St. Louis campus.