Symposium uses the arts to teach about illness

Ask any cut-and-thrust surgeon about a hard day’s work and he or she is likely to say something like: “It was bedlam today.

I had two aneurysms, a liver transplant, not to mention that old guy’s shattered humerus.”

The let-me-at-’em and let me home brigade won’t even know the patient’s name. They could do worse than attend a symposium next weekend at University College Cork. They might learn something from The Experience of Illness: Learning from the Arts, hosted by the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre at UCC.