Futurist-Poet-Doc (with Alter Ego!)

Kim Solez, MD

Unexpected Strategies to Deal with Whatever Challenges Life May Present 

Think Different

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Think Different 5 Case Studies

1. The end is not the end, empowering young people.2. The power of poetry.3. Not being blindsided by the future. Turtles all the way down. Stem cells.4. The musical spy, young thinking.5. The polar opposite alter ego.

Who Am I?

Who Am I?

The Poetry Began Innocently Enough in 1999

In 2002 Began Leonard Cohen events. Met the Man in 2005

“Poetic Medicine” course. Students began managing Banff meetings

The Power of Poetry

Poetry Audience Ages 18-90

The Technological Singularity

The Singularity In Music

A Spy on Hot107

Turtles

All

the

Way

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Animal

Analogies

Limited.

Need Human

Alter Egos

CCM-L Characters

Off-Topic

Discussions

NEPHROL

No Characters

No Off-Topic

Discussions

Many Military

Awards, Karate

Black Belt

No Civilian Awards

Never Served in

Military

Many Civilian

Awards

Rock Band

Motorcycles

Colorful History in

60’s and 70’s

No Band or

Motorcycle

Boring Young Person

Crippen A

Myth?

Proves the

Metaphor

Works!