Quiet rooms

Minerva Rooms

Each of the Minerva houses has a seminar room that is equipped with a limited amount of technology. In keeping with the President's initiative to build a close relationship between academic and student life, the rooms are available to both students and faculty to use. each room contains a motorized projection screen, a ceiling-mounted data projector, and a DVD/VCR combo unit. A panel in the roo...

Minerva Rooms

Each of the Minerva houses has a seminar room that is equipped with a limited amount of technology. In keeping with the President's initiative to build a close relationship between academic and student life, the rooms are available to both students and faculty to use. each room contains a motorized projection screen, a ceiling-mounted data projector, and a DVD/VCR combo unit. A panel in the roo...

Quiet healing.

Both physicians and patients want deeply healing doctor-patient relationships. Too often, though, the ever-expanding demands of medical practice combine with the defenses of the patient to create doctor-patient isolation. Eastern and Western cosmologies and traditions may encourage different approaches to human interaction and healing. At times, probing the patient with more questions may open ...

Quiet caring.

D URING A WALK ABOUT THE ONCOLOGY unit where I was receiving antibiotics for pneumonia, I encountered an elderly woman, her arm splinted and wrapped by a sling and burdened by intravenous and oxygen tubing. She was slowly and painfully making her way to the family lounge with her nurse and daughter. I helped them into the room, and then we all sat down. I asked her about her arm. She told me th...

Quiet Lasers