Transformed By The Intimate Vastness Of Nature with Gail Storey & Porter Storey, M.D.

Gail Storey was formerly administrative director of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. She is a writer, hoop dancer and comic performance artist. Porter Storey, M.D. has been a full time hospice physician since 1983. He is a national leader in hospice and palliative medicine. He continues to do hospital and clinic consults in palliative care for the Colorado Permanente Medical Group. In 2004, he was named the first executive vice-president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine where he continues his efforts to insure that every severely ill patient has access to a physician, skilled in hospice and palliative medicine. Together they bicycled on their tandem from Maine to San Diego, and years later trekked the Pacific Crest Trail.

She’s the author of:

• The Lord's Motel: A Novel (Persea Books 2011)
• God's Country Club: A Novel (Persea Books 2011)
• I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool For Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail (The Mountaineers Books 2013) (winner of the Barbara Savage Award)

• Primer of Palliative Care, 4th edition (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine 2010)

To find out more about their work go to www.gailstorey.com.

Host: Justine Willis Toms     Interview Date: 10/2/2013     Program Number: C0279

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