Prescription for Change: Two sides of the healthcare story

Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm

Prescription for Change: Two sides of the healthcare story

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Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm

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White Oak Books

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Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm (PDT)

White Oak Books

1700 Main St, Vancouver, WA 98660-2660, United States

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Prescription for Change: Two sides of the healthcare story
"“A Prescription for Change” at White Oak Books in Vancouver, WA on September 18
On Thursday evening, September 18th, from 6-8 pm, we invite you to join us for a discussion where we will hear from McKenna Marvin, one of our artists, and Dr. Ron Turker, MD, a Fellow with the Patient Revolution. Entry fee includes a free sketchbook and pen to encourage the artist in you!

Ron Turker started in the ’80s as a standup comic and, through a series of nonlinear events, became a pediatric surgeon and chronic pain clinician. Thirty years of caring for kids shaped, sharpened, and ground his sensibilities into a resolute yet witty voice for healthcare change and equity. He is also the author of a satirical novel, The Wandering Jew of St. Salacious.

McKenna Marvin is a painter and illustrator based in Portland, Oregon, working primarily in watercolor, pencil, and graphite. After studying physics and astronomy in California, she moved to Tokyo to pursue art at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, where she earned her BA. Following seven years in Japan and a long creative hiatus, she returned to the U.S. and rekindled her practice in the Pacific Northwest. Inspired by shoujou manga from Japan, surrealist painters in Eastern Europe, and ancient, historical events, McKenna’s paintings consist of chromatic, dreamlike beings, and seemingly angelic motifs drenched in sunset, twilight worlds."


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Prescription for Change: Two sides of the healthcare story
Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm