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Healthstyles: In Awe of Being Human, Jen Sorensen Political Cartoonist

Tune in to CHMP’s Healthstyles Radio Thursday, April 16th, from 1:00 to 2:00 PM on WBAI, 99.5 FM in New York City and streamed online here. 

In this segment of Healthstyles you’ll hear co-host Barbara Glickstein interview Betsy MacGregor, author of In Awe of Being Human: A Doctor’s Stories from the Edge of Life and Death.  Dr. MacGregor worked as a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist at Beth Israel Medical Center for 30 years.

She shares reflections on living, healing and dying set amidst the challenging world of hospitals and hospices, the medical professionals who work in them, and the ever-present mystery of life and death. You can find out more about the book here.  Listen to the full interview.

Glickstein then interviews political cartoonist Jen Sorensen a nationally-syndicated political cartoonist whose work has appeared in The Progressive, The Nation, Daily Kos, Austin Chronicle, NPR, Ms., Politico, and many other publications. The recipient of the 2014 Herblock Prize and a 2013 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, she tweets at @JenSorensen

 

Healthstyles in produced by the Center for Health, Media and Policy. To hear archives of previous programs search here.

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barbara.glickstein@gmail.com

Barbara Glickstein, MPH, MS. RN., Principal, Barbara Glickstein Strategies, www.barbaraglickstein.com She is a Strategist for Carolyn Jones Productions and worked on the documentaries, The American Nurse, Defining Hope and In Case of Emergency. Glickstein was co-PI for the  Woodhull Revisited Project. She was selected to participate in Take the Lead’s 50 Women Can Change the World in Journalism  2019. Follow her on Twitter @bglickstein

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