Commentary by Felice Aull, Ph.D., M.A., Founding editor, Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database and editor, this blog. It seems these next few days require a blog entry that digresses from our usual sequence of invited essays. The moment is of >> Read more
Seven Reasons Why Doctors Write
Commentary by Tony Miksanek, M.D., family physician, short-story author, and coeditor, Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database As a profession, physicians are a remarkable group of writers. What doctors lack in good penmanship is more than compensated for by their skill >> Read more
Thoughts For The Season
Commentary by Felice Aull, Ph.D., M.A., editor of this blog and of the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database. A few thoughts as this blog editor takes a holiday break until after the New Year: In honor of the season, we >> Read more
The Seven Doctors Project: Creative Writing As Inspiration And Intervention
Commentary by Steve Langan, author of a collection of poems, Freezing (New Issues Press, 2001) and a chapbook, Notes on Exile and Other Poems (Backwaters, 2005); executive director of ALS in the Heartland in Omaha, Nebraska; teaches in the University >> Read more
Borderlands: A Theme and Syllabus for Medical Humanities Teaching
Commentary by Felice Aull, Ph.D., M.A.; Adjunct Associate Curator, New York University School of Medicine; Editor in Chief, Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database Now that I’m semi-retired, an elective course that I developed and taught for fourth-year medical students is >> Read more
Narrative Genetics: Following the Trail of Spit
Commentary by Marsha Hurst, Ph.D., Narrative Medicine Program,; faculty member and Research Scholar at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University; co-editor with Sayantani DasGupta of Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies (Kent >> Read more
Health: Stories in the Service of Making a Better Doctor By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. Narrative medicine employs short stories, poems and essays to build empathy in young doctors.
Article on literature, narrative, and medicine, by physician author, Pauline Chen–with a link to a “Well” blog that drew comments on the article.
The Story Always Comes First
Commentary by Jay Baruch, author of Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients and Other Strangers (Kent State University Press, 2007). Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director, Ethics Curriculum, at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University Question: What do you >> Read more
My Story, Your Attention, Our Connection
Commentary by Deirdre Neilen, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Center for Bioethics & Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse NY, and editor, The Healing Muse We are finalizing our eighth issue of The Healing Muse, and I find myself again caught in >> Read more
Trekking And The Medical Humanities
Commentary by P. Ravi Shankar, M.D., Department of Medical Education, KIST Medical College, Imadol, Lalitpur, Nepal Nepal, trekking, and new perspectives In a previous commentary for this blog I wrote about the development of medical humanities modules in two >> Read more