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Atlanta—IHI Open School Emory Chapter Address and Signing
Jim Bailey will speak to medical, nursing, and public health students in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Open School Chapter of Emory University. Using real-life stories drawn from his novel, The End of Healing, Dr. Bailey will reveal how the diagnostic, therapeutic, and systems errors that patients and their healers experience each day have powerful ethical dimensions. Using the story of his young physician hero, Dr. Don Newman, he will show the kind of courage the path to best evidence-based practice and true health…
Find out more »Memphis—Compass Group Address & Signing
Jim Bailey will discuss "Why Everyone Should Join the Journey to the Healthy City."
Find out more »Florence, AL—Alabama Association of University Women Address & Signing
Jim Bailey will discuss The End of Healing at the University of North Alabama, Alabama Association of University Women monthly meeting.
Find out more »Monteagle, TN—The Episcopal Churchmen of Tennessee 69th Annual Conference
Jim Bailey will serve as a keynote speaker at The Annual Conference of The Episcopal Churchmen of Tennessee, the largest conference of its type in The Episcopal Church. The theme of the conference, "The power of stories to inspire and transform," comes from Mark 4:34—“But without a parable spake he not unto them.” Jim will tell how and why he decided to tell use the medium of fiction to tell the story of American healthcare, and how our stories have the power to change…
Find out more »Santa Fe—St. John’s College Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series
In his lecture, "Dante and the Hero’s Quest for Healing" Dr. Bailey will discuss the hero’s quest in ancient and modern literature. Using examples from mythology, Homer’s Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid, Dante’s Inferno, and his own novel, The End of Healing, Bailey’s lecture will consider how each of these stories involves a process of healing, both for the broken world in which the hero finds himself and for the hero personally. In light of these stories, the lecture will examine why the…
Find out more »Tuscumbia, AL—Cold Water Books Signing
Dr. Jim Bailey will be speaking about The End of Healing and signing copies at Cold Water Books in Tuscumbia.
Find out more »Memphis—Arkwings Address, Signing, and Reception
Join Jim Bailey and his friends at Arkwings for an overview and discussion of The End of Healing with a signing and reception afterwards
Find out more »Germantown, TN—St. George’s Episcopal Church Address & Signing
Diagnosis Then and Now—Learning from the Brazen Serpent. Jim Bailey will discuss "The Image Makers" chapter of The End of Healing focusing on the proper use of diagnostic tests, and where doctors, nurses, and hospitals can go wrong.
Find out more »San Antonio—The Twig Book Shop Address & Signing
Come to The Twig Book Shop located at the former Pearl Brewery on the Museum Reach of the Riverwalk to hear Jim Bailey discuss and sign The End of Healing
Find out more »San Antonio—Brookdale Shavano Park Address & Signing
Jim Bailey will talk about The End of Healing and sign books at Brookdale Shavano Park
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