THE FRONTLINE OF MEDICINE - San Antonio Book Festival
April 11, 2026

THE FRONTLINE OF MEDICINE

  • 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
  •    |   Location of Session: Swartz Stage
  • Adult Sessions
  • Start of Signing: 1:15 PM
  •    |   Signing Location: Adult Signing Tent

About the Event

In Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine, editor Donna Bulseco gathers the voices of 60 doctors, nurses, therapists, EMTs, patient advocates, and other medical professionals to offer a window into the spaces between health and illness, life and death. These stories delve into the challenges and triumphs of working in medicine. Join us to empathize, live fully, and be human.

About the Author

Donna Bulseco - The San Antonio Book Festival Photo Credit: Kyle Ericksen

Donna Bulseco

Donna Bulseco is a journalist and an editor who holds graduate degrees in English from Brown University and in narrative medicine from Columbia University. Through the years, she has published work in The New York TimesThe Wall Street JournalInStyleSelf, and The Purist. As editor in chief of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, a literary journal recognized as a leader in the medical humanities world, she works with an editorial board of clinicians, educators, and writers, who review and select from over one thousand submissions a year to produce the journal. She edited the anthology Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine, a collection of poems, short stories, and essays.

Moderator

Suzanne Ohlmann

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