1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 In this week's episode, Dr. Matt Farrell, chief resident in radiation oncology at UCLA joins Dr. Richard Deming for a conversation around narrative medicine.&amp;nbsp; Matthew J. Farrell, MD, MFA, is a chief resident in radiation oncology at UCLA. He grew up in Sacramento, studied film and creative writing at Stanford, and earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of Oregon, where he taught undergraduate writing courses and wrote a collection of short stories for his thesis. Realizing that much of his creative work explored illness and cancer, he decided to pursue a career in medicine and attended medical school at Oregon Health &amp;amp; Science University before moving to LA for residency. His academic interests include health-related quality of life, JEDI (justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion), narrative medicine, and health humanities. He has published essays and poems in&amp;nbsp;JAMA,&amp;nbsp;Journal of Clinical Oncology,&amp;nbsp;Practical Radiation Oncology, and other journals, and he currently teaches a narrative medicine course to 4th-year medical students. He lives with his wife, Jessica, an internal medicine physician, and their newborn son, Rowan. The Cancer Education Series is a joint effort between Above + Beyond Cancer and MercyOne in Des Moines, Iowa. Join us for our weekly podcasts or watch the video on our YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/aboveandbeyondcancerinc4744 &amp;nbsp; Above + Beyond Cancer https://aboveandbeyondcancer.org <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/29442043/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/item/29442043