An interview with author Art Frank about telling stories about illness. Art describes his own experience with an early heart attack and later cancer.  He describes the way the medical world can be oblivious to the patient’s needs and subjective experience.  He talks about the importance of finding your own voice after your body has been colonized by treatment.  He offered examples of the ways that medical professionals can connect more personally with the stories of their patients.   He also describes ways that it is both difficult and imperative that we learn to stay present with difficult stories of illness, our own, and those of others. Art’s book is The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness and Ethics.