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Brian Volck

Brian Volck is a pediatrician at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He co-authored Reclaiming the Body: Christians and the Faithful Use of Modern Medicine (Brazos Press, 2006). He is writing a memoir and researching a book on the intersection of history, culture, and health among the Navajo people.

Gore Vidal, W. H. Auden, and Satire’s Moral Sense

If Vidal spoke and wrote like a patrician, he was at heart a populist, and knew well enough there's but one exit for us all, silently waiting to steal away every elitist pretension.

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Brian Volck Mar 1, 2011 Letters to the Young

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Letter to a Young Doctor

Patients suffer and seek out healers for relief—for mind at least as much as for pain. What could be more Christ-like than to show someone the way out of suffering?