Commentary by Hedy S. Wald, Ph.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI May, 2006. We treated our Doctoring small group to a nice home-cooked meal to celebrate the conclusion of their >> Read more
Category: Teaching
Rescuing Sympathy
Commentary by Jack Coulehan, M.D. M.P.H., Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine and Fellow, Center for Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Stony Brook University, New York Many authors who write about empathy in medicine are careful to draw a bright line between >> Read more
Creating And Maintaining Participant Interest In The Medical Humanities
Commentary by P. Ravi Shankar, M.D., Department of Medical Education, KIST Medical College, Imadol, Lalitpur, Nepal In previous blog articles I looked at medical humanities teaching in Nepal, explored the link between trekking and the medical humanities in a Nepalese >> Read more
The Story As Chameleon: A Transformation
Commentary by Patricia Stanley, M.B.A., M.A., Guest Faculty, Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons; Clinical Coordinator, Masters in Narrative Medicine There is a short story, “The Shawl”, by Louise Erdrich, which is about story and >> Read more
Is Medical Uncertainty Necessary?
Commentary by Caroline Wellbery, M.D., Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center; Associate Deputy Editor, American Family Physician Medical uncertainty is all around us In medicine we are quite often confronted with ‘not knowing,’ with ‘choices,’ with ‘multifactorial >> Read more
The Healthcare Debate And Disability Studies
Two related items in the Science Times section of Tuesday’s New York Times (July 26) drew my attention. One was Dr. Abigail Zuger’s book review of Normal at Any Cost by authors Susan Cohen and Christine Cosgrove and the other >> Read more
Summer Blogging: Traveller's Joy
We are taking a break from our regular essay commentaries until September. In the meantime, there will be occasional short postings, mostly by me (Felice Aull). This image of the plant, Traveller’s Joy, invokes this summer interlude — the pleasure >> Read more
Celebrating July 6
Commentary by Bert Hansen, Ph.D., Professor of History, Baruch College, The City University of New York. Author of Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America (Rutgers University Press, 2009). >> Read more
Interesting Lectures Online
The University of North Carolina School of Medicine’s Bullitt History of Medicine Club held numerous interesting talks in 2008-2009 that are available online at their site. Felice Aull
Walking The Dog: Incorporating Poetry To Help Learners Connect With Relationship-Centered Care
Commentary by Johanna Shapiro, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Director, Program in Medical Humanities & Arts, University of California Irvine School of Medicine Theories of relationship-centered care The concept of relationship-centered care (RCC) (1) and the related theory >> Read more