Writing can be a therapeutic form of self-expression for doctors who are often exposed to more than their fair share of trauma, and that’s important, says Dr. Goutham Rao, division chief of Family Medicine at UH Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital.
A group of Greater Cleveland doctors, nurses and others in medical fields are meeting to hone a very different skill - writing. CLEVELAND, Ohio — When Dr. Kevin Kawalec was in high school, he planned to study art. But the career of the watercolor painter would end up taking a much different path.
So, on a rainy Saturday morning at the end of March, Kawalec and about 10 other doctors, nurses and hospital staff convened around a table in an old brownstone building at Case Western Reserve University known as the Writer’s House. It was the introductory meeting of what would become a yet-to-be-named community of Cleveland healthcare professionals who are learning to express themselves-- even cope with the unique stresses of a life in medicine -- through writing.
The idea to form his own writers group came to him after he wrote and published his first fiction novel. He had attempted to join a group of physician writers at But while the execution of would-be novels might be lacking, the practice of medicine certainly provides no shortage of fodder for fiction. “I hear these two guys saying, ‘Hey look at this one, looks like this is a bad cancer or something,’ ... and their supervisor said, ‘Oh yea, they do that all the time.’” Rao recalls.“Doctors are very careful about disclosing private health information. We are taught not to do that, but the IT guys who can look at your electronic health record? They have no training and some of them are just out of high school, so they have no idea,” explained Rao.
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