LIT MED MAGAZINE – humanities, social sciences, and the arts in relation to medicine and medical training

Sealed in!
By Dr. P Ravi Shankar

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Reading Arrowsmith During the 2020 Pandemic
By J. Russell Teagarden

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Memories of the Spanish Flu
by Jerome Lowenstein, MD, Professor of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

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Medicine as spectacle: Public expectations of physicians as seen through art and television

By Rachel Martel, a 4th year medical student at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and a former English major at Tufts University. She plans on pursuing a residency in Ob/Gyn.

Updates from our editors

High Anxiety: Going Viral? By Howard Trachtman, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Co-editor, LitMed Database.

A Different Take

End-of-Life Dreams & Visions – A Conversation with Christopher Kerr, MD, PhD, and Carine Mardorossian, PhD, on Death is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life’s End Interview by Sebastian C. Galbo

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The Height of the Storm: When A Play Is as Jazz Does by J. Russell Teagarden

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Saving Grace by Mandy O’Hara

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Plaguing Shakespeare by J. Russell Teagarden

History of Medicine

Spanish Flu Epidemic
by Jacalyn Duffin, MD, PhD

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History of Medicine Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital
by Gabriel Redel-Traub

A Different Take Lincoln in the Bardo
by Russell Teagarden

Current Topics Posthumous Portraiture Exhibit at the Folk Art Museum
by Gabriel Redel-Traub