Allan Peterkin
Allan Peterkin, is a Toronto doctor and the author of twelve books for adults and children. He is a founding editor of Ars Medica — A Journal of Medicine, the Arts and Humanities, a senior fellow at Massey College and head of the Program in Health, Arts and Humanities at the University of Toronto.
Articles by
Allan Peterkin
Never love a writer
They’ll take you
To the brink
They’ll tell your story
As their own
And make you
Swallow ink
There’s beauty
In the work
But seldom in the life
Woe betide the husband
Woe betide the wife
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Two health system insiders go under the knife
September 2011
What is it like when someone who works in health care becomes a patient? Two new books, one written by an intensive care nurse, the other by a health policy analyst and patient advocate, provide personal narratives of going under the knife. One story goes well and the other does not.
Tilda Shalof, author of A Nurse’s Story: …
The secrets of gayness are embedded in a cleverly confusing structure
April 2007
These days, one tends to approach first novels about coming out with trepidation. They mostly ended tragically in the 1950s (think James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room) and in the decades following, often took adolescent navel-gazing and self-realization a bit too far. Brett Josef Grubisic, a University of British Columbia English professor, has managed literally to deconstruct the genre (his…
