Claire Hicks
Claire Hicks is a physician and singer, and one of the five Hicks sisters of Clarkesville, Georgia. She is the second oldest, after banjo player Murphy Hicks Henry, and the sisters Argen, Nancy, and Laurie are younger. She sang with her sisters on the gospel album The Hicks Sisters: With Sweet Accord. She practiced family medicine in Jesup, Georgia, where she did extensive work with AIDS patients, and she was the subject of the Nightline documentary Journey of a Country Doctor. She later became a physician with Four Seasons Compassion for Life, a hospice and palliative care provider in Flat Rock, North Carolina, where she brought narrative medicine into her work with patients and staff. The Association for Home and Hospice Care of North Carolina named her its Physician of the Year in 2015.
In the newsletter
- No. 2 January-March 1995