Ars Medica Volume 3, Number 1, Fall 2006 Editorial Board Allison Crawford Managing editor, founding editor Rex Kay Founding editor James Orbinski Contributing international editor Allan Peterkin Founding editor Robin Roger Senior editor Ronald Ruskin Founding editor Advisory Board Guy Allen Jacalyn Duffin Jock Murray Jeff Nisker Thomas Ogden Adam Phillips Mary V . Seeman Anne Marie Todkill Legal Advisors Stanley Kugelmass Adrian Zahl Pulishing Ian MacKenzie Copy editor and designer Natalie Ruskin Copy editor Beth Sadavoy Copy editor Liz Konigshaus Executive administrator Web Allison Crawford Designer We are grateful for the generous fi nancial assistance of the Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation, the Munk Centre for International Studies, and the Canada Council for the Arts. Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, the Arts, and Humanities Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, 5G 1X5 Canada For subscription information or to submit a manuscript, contact
[email protected], or visit www.ars-medica.ca. Front Cover: Feverfew, 11” x 15”, mixed media on mylar and watercolour paper. Back Cover: Borage and Asparagus, 11” x 15”, mixed media on mylar and watercolour paper. Former artist-in-residence at the Memory Disability Clinic, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Rose Adams is a visual artist and educator who teaches part-time at NSCAD University. She is now working on an exhibition with the working title, Becoming a Mother. contents Editorial . 1 Featured Pieces Consumption . Kevin Patterson . 4 Guilt and Time: My Enemies . Jay Baruch . 40 Writing Medical Fiction . Daniel Kalla . 61 Storytelling: A Magical Compulsion . .Peter Clement . 73 Second Round . Nancy Richler . 93 Creative Nonfiction and Essays My Father’s Polio .