Suzanne Koven MD, MFA

Writer-in-Residence at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

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Featured:

Radio essay (begins at 40:35) at “Left, Right, and Center” on KCRW

Leslie Jamison interviews Suzanne for Literary Hub

Emily Silverman interviews Suzanne for The Nocturnists

Suzanne appears on Marketplace Radio

Interview on Narrative in the Hospital with Scott Simon on NPR Weekend Edition

Gameplan Podcast at Bloomberg News on “Letter To A Young Female Physician”


More interviews & Press:

Interview on Center for Addiction and Mental Health (Canada) podcast by Dr.David Gratzer

Interview by Lisa Weinert, author of Narrative Healing

Interview on Conversations on Healing Podcast

Interview on Beyond the Prescription podcast with Dr. Lucy McBride

Interview on Visible Voices podcast with Dr. Resa Lewiss

Interview at Bedside Reading podcast with Dr. Tara George

Interview at Paging Dr. Mom podcast with Dr. Julie La Barba

Feature on the 2022 dotMD Conference in The Medical Independent (Ireland)

Feature on the 2022 dotMD Conference in The Irish Times

Discussion of Letter to a Young Female Physician at Healthy Habits 4 Life podcast with Dr. Carol Perlman

Interview with Caroline Leavitt

Review of Letter to a Young Female Physician in The Wall Street Journal by Laura Kolbe

“Holding Up a Mirror to a Life in Medicine” feature and interview by Julia Klein at Johns Hopkins University Hub

“Overcoming Imposter Syndrome” interview with Nataly Kogan for the Happier Podcast

Interview with Alain Guillot

“Something Constructive Out of Chaos,” interview by Colleen M. Farrell at The Rumpus

Slow Stories Podcast with Rachel Schwartzmann

“Writing about Medicine and Being a Doctor” interview with Lisa Tener

Suzanne appears on WAMC Radio Roundtable

Rana Awdish’s review at the Los Angeles Review of Books

Vidya Viswanathan’s review at Doctors Who Create

Podcast “The Way We Live Now” with Dani Shapiro

Podcast “The Examination of a Poem” at Proto Magazine

“Why Storytelling Matters in Medicine” interview at Harvard Health Policy Review

Gameplan Podcast at Bloomberg News on “Letter To A Young Female Physician”

Interview at Doctors Who Create

“Letter To A Young Female Physician” featured at Upworthy.com, Bustle.com, Motto/Time.com, Refinery29, Health Desk Italia

Interview at Post Road Magazine.

Interview with science writer Jo Marchant about mind/body medicine. At Meaning of Life TV.

“The Role of Writers in a Stem-Obsessed Society” at Ploughshares Blog

Feature in Proto Magazine

“The Healing Power of Story” at Harvard Medical News.

Interview on University of North Carolina’s “Your Health” Radio on “The Doctor’s New Dilemma: Time.”

Feature story at Narrative Medicine Symposium at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Interview on CBC Sunday Edition: “Taking the Temperature of Sick Lit.”

“Education, The Arts, and Healing” at The Palette podcast.

Interview with Sacha Pfeiffer at WBUR’s Radio Boston: “Are We Losing Touch in the Doctor-Patient Relationship?”.

Interview with John Schumann at NPR’s StudioTulsa “On Health” about mental health and primary care.

Interview with Callie Crossley on WGBH’s Boston Public Radio on humor in medicine.

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