Philosophy Club: Medicine for Thought

Please join us in Auerbach 320 or online this Wednesday, March 8, from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m., for our next meeting of the University of Hartford Philosophy Club as Author and Family Medicine Specialist Jeffrey Lee, MD, discusses his writing and counseling enterprise as the interface between philosophy, truth, caring, and human health.

To join the meeting online, click here. If you have trouble joining, call Brian Skelly at 413.273.2273.   

Jeff Lee, raised in Amherst Massachusetts and a graduate of Harvard University Medical School,  is a family medicine doctor in Seattle, Washington and is affiliated with UW Medicine-Valley Medical Center. Dad Next Door, his regularly occurring column for the online publication Seattle’s Child, as well as weekly reflections sent out from his coaching and consulting website jeffleecoaching.com, exemplify his unique, intimate style of gently breaking down, all in about 500-700 words or so, the foibles, troubles, and controversies of everyday life, common sources of anxiety or contention for us, and building them up into manageable plateaus upon which readers may launch future reflections in a more friendly, healthful, and profitable manner. Driven both by the forma mentis of his own profession and his own loving heart, Jeff’s work falls just as easily into the best of the Socratic tradition as a philosophy of health, healing, and happiness.   

An ongoing weekly tradition at the University since 2001, the University of Hartford Philosophy Club is a place where students, professors, and people from the community at large meet as peers. Sometimes presentations are given, followed by discussion. Other times, topics are hashed out by the whole group.  

Presenters may be students, professors, or people from the community. Anyone can offer to present a topic. The mode of presentation may be as formal or informal as the presenter chooses. 

Please be a part of us as we continue this great tradition both in the classroom and online!

For more information, please contact Brian Skelly at bskelly@hartford.edu.