By on March 3, 2022 - 11:36am
Voices in the Band: A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful
Join Dr. Susan Clark Ball at 5:00 PM EST on March 30, 2022, as she presents on her decades-long work combatting the AIDS crisis and reflects on the epidemic in the shadow of COVID-19. Voices in the Band: A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful is a moving memoir of the fear and confusion that surrounded the disease in the early 1990s and the guarded hope that emerged at the end of the decade. As Dr. Ball and her colleagues struggled to care for an underserved population even after game-changing medication was available, it became clear to them that medicine alone could not ensure a transition from illness to health when patients were suffering from terrible circumstances as well as a terrible disease.
Dr. Susan Clark Ball serves as Assistant Director of the Glenn Bernbaum Unit at the Center for Special Studies at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. In 1992 she began her medical career taking care of patients with HIV at the Center for Special Sutides, a designated AIDS care center.
The Heberden Society is free and open to the public! Registration for this lecture, which is co-sponsored with the New York Academy of Medicine, is no longer available. The recording is available here.
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