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Improve Communication with Your Medical Provider

The Power of Narrative Medicine

Olga Lucia Torres offers a follow-up to June's "Speak up to HEAL" workshop. Learn more about how to use narrative medicine methods to communicate better with your medical team.

When you go to the doctor, do you feel heard, or dismissed? For those who attended "Speak up to HEAL" on June 16th, or for anyone interested in learning how to better communicate with their doctor, this in-depth workshop offers instruction and practice for using the HEAL method of narrative medicine to improve communication with your medical team and optimize your health outcomes.

Olga Lucia Torres is a first generation Latina who has dedicated her career to nonprofit work. Olga has been sick her entire life: starting with severe asthma, then the discovery of a pediatric pituitary adenoma, and later developing lupus and five other autoimmune diseases, then experiencing a devastating brain injury that left her disabled. She was one of the eight founding attorneys of the Bronx Defenders and is now a lecturer in the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia University. Olga’s been published in the New York Times, the New York Daily News, Parents, Next Avenue, and various other publications about healthcare, disability rights, and BIPOC issues. Olga received her BA from Cornell University and her JD at Georgetown University Law Center. 

This program is made possible through the work of The Friends of South Brunswick Public Library. We are grateful for their support in all that we do.

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