1. What is Possible in Saskatchewan Health Care
Ulrich Teucher, Marcel D’Eon, & Doreen Walker
Parzifal’s “What ails You?”

2. Parzifal’s Story
Giving Away The Last Shirt

3. Motivations for Health Care
Wanting to Help

4. Studying Cure

5. No Time to Care

6. t
Disconnect

7. Marcel D’Eon, Doreen Walker, Ulrich Teucher
UofS Patient Narrative Seminars

8. Part 1: What is it like to be ill?
Sample patient story (42yr-old woman, cancer)
“I have been hesitant to start. A little nervous, a little
unsure. But I think it is something that might help me.
Putting words to it. Giving it some form. Acknowledging
the vastness of it, the complexity, the dreadful black
blessing that it is . . .

9. Part 1: What is it like to be ill?
Sample patient story continued . . .
“. . . I don’t yet know, completely, abso-lutely, what it is to
have cancer. To write it out: I have cancer. But this is the
very thing I want. I want to tell it and deal with it and give it
a place, but I don’t want it to be the whole thing . . .”

10. What is it like to be ill?
Bob Boyer
A Smallpox Issue

11. What is it like to be ill?
Ottomar
Gassenmeyer
“Self portrait”

12. What is it like to be ill?
William Utermolen
“Self Portrait”

13. What is it like to be ill?
Regina Holliday

14. What is it like to be ill?
Craig Getzlaff
“Brainstorm”

15. What is it like to be ill?
Volker Rodermond
“Faces in Circle”

16. What is it like to be ill?
Kay Minto, “Nike
of Mastectomy”

17. What is it like to be ill?
Annette
Francoise

18. What is it like to be ill?
Colette Whiten

19. Part II: Reflection
Writing, Sharing, Being

20. UofS Patient Narrative Seminars
Feedback

21. Parzifal’s “What ails you?”
My Last Shirt, For The King