Welcome! I’m Deborah Bayer, writer and workshop facilitator.
I am (mostly) retired from the practice of Infectious Disease and Palliative Care. I write poems and personal essays, and I’m working on a memoir about the need for emotional support in the workplace.
I facilitate writing groups via Zoom. These groups blend the Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) methodology with the Narrative Medicine workshop format.
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A Rope Made of Bandages
Poems by Deborah Bayer
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The supportive approach of the AWA method lends itself to healing from all kinds of trauma, including the trauma of medical training.
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Blog Archive
E is for Earworm
Several song snippets go through my head as I ponder E words: Each, Every, Ether, Equanimity, Emotions, Earworm. “Each moment is different from any before it. Each moment is different. It’s now.” That comes from an Incredible String Band song, a British...
D is for Daily
And for Darjeeling, because I drink a cup of tea every day when I transition into my afternoon writing time. And Differential, as in the infinitesimally small change described in calculus, dx/dt, a moment so small that it might be described as a snapshot in...
C is for Creativity
In August 1985, I was 31 years old, about to enter medical school. I was bored, bored to the point of feeling stressed by my boredom. I took a job to earn some money until school began. It was a sales job, and I hated it. During the launch of a new product, a...