Return-Path: <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id XAA16928; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 23:34:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 23:34:56 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <Pine.SGI.3.95.1000110212033.3075B-100000@world.std.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: David J Rosen <DJRosen@world.std.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:2119] Re: Invited Guest X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: OR Helen, This is fabulous news. Congratulations and thanks to you for making this happen! I look forward with great enthusiasm to an opportunity to have a discussion with so perceptive and sensitive a thinker and writer as Anne Fadiman. David J. Rosen <DJRosen@world.std.com> On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Helen Osborne wrote: > Last month, many of you shared your thoughts and ideas about NIFL-Health. > You spoke highly about this discussion group, and said you value it as a > forum to interact with colleagues at all levels of expertise. You also gave > some specific suggestions to improve NIFl-Health, and one was to invite > special guests to the list, as we have done in the past. > > Great news! Anne Fadiman, author or "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall > Down" and "Ex Libris" has agreed to contribute to our discussion. For those > of you who are not familiar with her work, "The Spirit Catches You." is > about "a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two > cultures" (quote on the cover of the book) and is a winner of the National > Book Critics Circle Award. There was an active discussion about this book on > NIFL-Health several months ago, and the postings can be found in our > archives (www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/nifl-health/health_literacy.html) > > Anne Fadiman has agreed to answer up to a dozen questions about > cross-cultural medical care. It seems the easiest way to make this happen is > for you to send your questions to me by January 17th. I will then > cluster/organize/summarize them, and forward them to Anne Fadiman. She, > then, will respond towards the end of January. > > A one-time only guest is a new model for our discussion group - and > hopefully will be a workable way to "converse" with a noted author. > Together, let's make it work! > > Helen Osborne, MEd., OTR/L > Co-moderator, NIFL-Health > & > Health Literacy Consulting, Natick, MA > Phone: 508-653-1199 * Fax: 508-650-9492 > Helen@healthliteracy.com * www.healthliteracy.com > >
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