https://www.colleenmfarrell.com/home-1 daily 1.0 2026-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45fe9baf20960cddf5f349/55e87529-9114-4a33-97ee-6601e94efa36/Colleen+Headshots-6430.jpg Home Photo by Craig Harris https://www.colleenmfarrell.com/writing daily 0.75 2026-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45fe9baf20960cddf5f349/0e44e943-2291-4291-9aa9-0aefcf962590/JUHASZ-Colleen_Farrell_ICU-labor-ILLO.jpg Writing Illustration by Victor Juhasz for The Nation https://www.colleenmfarrell.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-01-14 https://www.colleenmfarrell.com/medhumchat daily 0.75 2019-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45fe9baf20960cddf5f349/1553469649117-35GX0NUIIUS6HENATTOA/medhumchat+%281%29.png About https://www.colleenmfarrell.com/discussion-guides daily 0.75 2019-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45fe9baf20960cddf5f349/1553467001248-5BRZU36F74RBFVUYKYDC/book-book-pages-college-448835.jpg Discussion Guides - Can fairy tales and poetry help us heal? Poetry: Intensive Care by Jane O Wayne Prose: Practicing Medicine Can be Grimm Work by Valerie Gribben https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45fe9baf20960cddf5f349/1553467117699-TGJQLC26MGTMPDI5U9YJ/rod-long-403704-unsplash.jpg Discussion Guides - Racism & medicine with special guest Dr. Utibe R Essien Poetry: Caged Bird by Maya Angelou Prose: Racism and the Off-Duty Doctor by Sriram Shamasunder Prose: A Tough Mind And A Tender Heart by Martin Luther King, Jr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45fe9baf20960cddf5f349/1553467247613-Z6OBBUUJZAS43MT1C7LA/bowl-breakfast-delicious-734542.jpg Discussion Guides - The messy relationship between food & medicine Prose: Meat Slurry and My Particular Brand of Optimism by Dr. Diana Cejas Poetry: the benediction of Our Lady of Hyperglycemia by Dr. Irène Mathieu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45fe9baf20960cddf5f349/1553467381613-5RJM8UVYHI2SZNV1PS85/martina-vitakova-760549-unsplash.jpg Discussion Guides - Nature, death, & the soul in the poetry of Mary Oliver Poetry: The Rabbit by Mary Oliver Poetry: Bone by Mary Oliver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45fe9baf20960cddf5f349/1553467469058-N593UAWFLHFCX7CS7MWS/ira-selendripity-392086-unsplash.jpg Discussion Guides - Music & laughter on the oncology ward Poetry: The Performance by Rafael Campo Prose: The Beat Goes On by Suleika Jaouad https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45fe9baf20960cddf5f349/1553467834261-T55QWDJL3L9XHPT15G7V/matt-mcnulty-407248-unsplash.jpg Discussion Guides - Poverty, homelessness, & health in the poetry of Bertolt Brecht with special guests Dr. Kelly Doran and Dr. David Rosenthal Poetry: A Worker’s Speech to a Doctor by Bertolt Brecht Poetry: A Bed for the Night by Bertolt Brecht https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45fe9baf20960cddf5f349/1553468148305-SWAV67ARK6HFTLEHTLZO/jonas-verstuyft-183635-unsplash.jpg Discussion Guides - Uncertainty in the patient experience Poetry: In the Land of the Body (#2) by Chana Bloch Prose: How Long Have I Got Left? by Paul Kalanithi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45fe9baf20960cddf5f349/1553468227780-8UHPUXA05WQIWRBWSQP6/francesco-gallarotti-72602-unsplash.jpg Discussion Guides - The body as garden with special guest Dr. Zachery Sager Prose: selections from God’s Hotel by Victoria Sweet Prose: Nurturing Medicine by Zachary Sager https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45fe9baf20960cddf5f349/1553468471736-LR8V1QPQLRJO9Z0SRB3O/steve-johnson-1056324-unsplash.jpg Discussion Guides - Pain & subjectivity Poetry: Pain Has an Element of Blank by Emily Dickinson Prose: The Pain Scale by Eula Biss https://www.colleenmfarrell.com/bio daily 0.75 2026-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45fe9baf20960cddf5f349/b83b6e4c-efb6-4d88-830f-2e292c1fa0e3/Colleen+Headshots-6336.jpg Bio Photo by Craig Harris