Physician/Poet David Watts to Speak at Yale School of Medicine

David Watts, M.D., a poet, essayist and gastroenterologist at the University of California at San Francisco, will deliver The Howard Spiro Lecture October 12, 2006, at 5 p.m. in the Beaumont Room at Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street.

Watts will discuss “Bedside Manners: Humanism in Medical Practice,” about focusing on ways to use literature and the process of writing to enhance engagement and attentiveness with patients.

Watts recently published a book of stories, “Bedside Manners,” and has published three books of poetry. He is founder and director of Writing the Medical Experience, a summer writing conference at Sarah Lawrence College, and is founder of the Foundation for Humanities in Medicine.

The talk is free and open to the public.

For more information please call The Program for Humanities in Medicine at Yale, (203) 785-6102.