An Evening With Dr. Jessi Gold and Dr. Anupam B. Jena
Join us for an evening with Dr. Jessi Gold on Tuesday, November 19, at 7:00 pm. Dr. Gold will be discussing her book How Do You Feel?: One Doctor’s Search For Humanity In Medicine.
A thoughtful, reflective conversation on the challenges caring for yourself, while you care for others moderated by Dr. Anupam B. Jena, author of Random Acts of Medicine and host of the Freakonomics MD podcast. Learn about the realities of working in healthcare, from a psychiatrist who sees healthcare workers as patients, and has been a patient herself.
Tickets:
$30 - Includes a copy of How Do You Feel?
$15 - Admission Only
About How Do You Feel?: One Doctor’s Search For Humanity In Medicine:
“In this honest, wise, and heart-filled memoir, Jessi Gold reveals what it takes to retain the humanity that medicine so often forces doctors to set aside, and what it means to help yourself while helping others. I loved this book, both as a journalist who has tried to provide a similar kind of service and as a patient who has sought help from therapy.” —Ed Yong, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of An Immense World
In How Do You Feel?: One Doctor's Search for Humanity in Medicine, a poignant new memoir, Dr. Jessi Gold traces her own story alongside those of four of her healthcare worker patients as they deal with the unspoken mental and physical costs of caring for others.
In a field that punishes its practitioners for showing empathy and vulnerability, these subjects—a thirty-something resident with OCD, a pregnant nurse suffering from PTSD, an aspiring medical student with crippling test anxiety, and an experienced ER physician who feels completely overwhelmed—found themselves, like Gold, abruptly adrift. Through sessions with them and with her own therapist, Gold learned that she was not alone in struggling to maintain her humanity in an industry that she chose for its humanity in the first place.
Expertly weaving research with unforgettable stories and raw emotion, HOW DO YOU FEEL? demonstrates the unbridled capacity that we all have for adaptation, growth, and connection through even the darkest of times..
About Dr. Jessi Gold:
Jessi Gold, MD, MS, is the Chief Wellness Officer of the University of Tennessee System and an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. This inaugural leadership position encompasses all five University of Tennessee campuses, UT Knoxville, UT Chattanooga, UT Southern, UT Martin, and UT Health Science Center, and makes up about 59,000 students and 19,0000 faculty and staff. In her clinical practice, she sees healthcare workers, trainees, and young adults in college. Dr. Gold is also a fierce mental health advocate and highly sought-after expert in the media on everything from burnout to celebrity self-disclosure. She has written widely for the popular press, including for The New York Times, The Atlantic, InStyle, Slate, and Self. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (with a degree in anthropology), the Yale School of Medicine, and the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry, she spends her free time traveling with her friends, watching live music (especially Taylor Swift) or mindless television, and on walks with her dog, Winnie. She also is a regular visitor to the area, spending a month at times seeing her sister's family, including her 3 awesome nephews. Find her on X, Instagram, TikTok, or Threads @DrJessiGold.
About Dr. Anupam B. Jena:
Anupam B. Jena, M.D., Ph.D. is the Joseph P. Newhouse Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, an internist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. As one of a small group of physician economists in the world, Dr. Jena uses creative natural experiments to help us understand how health care works, the subject of his 2020 TEDMED talk. He is also the host of the Freakonomics, M.D. podcast, which explores the hidden side of health care, and the author of the national bestseller Random Acts of Medicine – The Hidden Forces that Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape our Health. His work is frequently featured in the media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and others.
About Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health:
In this singular work of science and medicine, Dr. Anupam B. Jena and Dr. Christopher Worsham show us how medicine really works, and its effect on all of us.
Relying on ingeniously devised natural experiments—random events that unknowingly turn us into experimental subjects—Jena and Worsham do more than offer readers colorful stories. They help us see the way our health is shaped by forces invisible to the untrained eye. Is there ever a good time to have a heart attack? Do you choose the veteran doctor or the rookie? Do you really need the surgery your doctor recommends? These questions are rife with significance; their impact can be life changing. Addressing them in a style that’s both animated and enlightening, Random Acts of Medicine empowers you to see past the white coat and find out what really makes medicine work—and how it could work better.