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The Healthcare Solution Barbarian Days
Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal William Finnegan
Thursday 9:30–10:15 am Thursday 9:30–10:15 am
Walt Disney Room Joan Didion Room

Our healthcare system leaves many of us frustrated, In William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession,
but there is a solution. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal, surfing only looks like a sport. To insiders on
author of An American Sickness, will take us inside surfboards, it is something completely of its own
the doctor-patient relationship and to hospital world: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course
rooms, explaining step-by-step the workings of a of study, a morally dangerous pastime, and a way
system badly lacking transparency. Dr. Khoi Le of life. Join Finnegan and David Davis as they talk
will join Dr. Rosenthal to talk about what we can about the surfing life, its heroes and its champions.
do, as individual patients, to navigate the maze
that is American healthcare and why we need to “When you surf, as I then
demand far-reaching reform.
understood it, you live and breathe
History of a Pleasure Seeker waves. You always know what the
Richard Mason surf is doing. You cut school, lose
Thursday 9:30–10:15 am jobs, lose girlfriends, if it’s good.”
Anne Rice Room
— William Finnegan, Barbarian Days
English writer Richard Mason’s novel, History of a Pleasure Seeker, has been described as “...Downton Abbey, in
Amsterdam, with lots of sex, and not always between the usual suspects.” So who better to talk with Mason about
what goes on behind closed doors of stately mansions than Daisy Lewis, familiar to Downton Abbey fans as Sarah
Bunting. Join them in conversation as they take the lid off a privileged family life and show how sex, while not
necessarily the same thing as love, can be a potent force for good.

William Finnegan during his “barbarian days”

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