When thinking about these last two years, I can’t help but think of books. Just as with each aspect of our lives, as an avid reader, what I’ve read (or not read), how I’ve read it, and who I’ve read it with has been deeply impacted by the events of 2020.
The masked identity
Some countries in East Asia were already using masks during the SARS epidemic and started using them quickly during the current one. I am struck by the stark differences in the acceptance and use of face masks globally.
Quarantined!
The process of COVID testing was going smoothly. People were paying the fees, completing the required paperwork, and getting swabbed. I had just landed in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from New Delhi, India, and the process was a mandatory part of the arrival formalities along with a two-week quarantine
Reading Foucault’s The Birth of the Clinic in 2021: Does the Gaze Still Dominate its Masters?
“This is a book about space, about language, and about death; it is about the act of seeing, the gaze,” Michel Foucault writes opening The Birth of the Clinic (p. ix).
Rx Books: An Interview on Bibliotherapy with Darlina Liu
“Picture books are relatively low cost and accessible. They comprise an environmental tool that could be harnessed to support kids of parents with mental illness.”
Healing her…..healing me….
“There are career-defining moments that support the sacrifice, the stress, the trauma, the sleep deprivation, the juggle, and everything in between in child abuse pediatrics practice.”
Taking a Shot: An Interview with Daniela J. Lamas, MD, on the Covid-19 Vaccination
By Sebastian Galbo, Co-Editor LitMed Database and Magazine
Daniela J. Lamas, MD, is a pulmonologist and critical-care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard … Read More
Stanley B. Burns M.D. Historic Medical Photography Collection Acquired by Yale
The Stanley B. Burns M.D. Historic Medical Photography Collection was recently acquired by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Historical Library at Yale University. Dr. … Read More
Using Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) to Enhance Interprofessional Education
A medical and a nursing student facilitating an image discussion. Hope Torrents School Programs Coordinator and Director of the Fine Art of Health Care program … Read More
The Past, Present, and Future of Medical Television
By 1955, 75% of households owned a television, just seven years after their introduction to the marketplace. Shawn Thomas Shawn Thomas is a fourth-year medical … Read More
Being Patient
Painting by Robert Pope Dr. P Ravi Shankar Dr P. Ravi Shankar is a faculty member at the IMU Centre for Education, International Medical University, … Read More
The Betrothed During the 2020 Pandemic
By J. Russell Teagarden
Background The Betrothed, a novel written by Alessandro Manzoni and first published in 1827, is an expression of the author’s interest in early seventeenth-century Italian … Read More
Sealed in!
By Dr. P Ravi Shankar
Dr. P Ravi Shankar Dr. Shankar is a medical educator with a keen interest in the health humanities who has facilitated seminars in Nepal, Aruba, … Read More
Reading Arrowsmith During the 2020 Pandemic
By J. Russell Teagarden
Reading the 1925 novel Arrowsmith during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic reveals many parallels that can make us wonder if the outcomes of pandemics will forever … Read More
Memories of the Spanish Flu
by Jerome Lowenstein, MD, Professor of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
The news each day is filled with the casualties of the Covid-19 pandemic. It brought to mind a description I wrote of the “Spanish flu” … Read More
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.
If “all the worlds a stage,” then the operating theater is no different. Surgeons of the Renaissance and nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, despite … Read More
Editor’s Choice
Dr. Gabriel Redel-Traub‘We Have No Superpowers’: A New Doctor’s Lessons From the PandemicDr. Gabriel Redel-Traub is one of 52 members of the NYU Grossman School … Read More
Peaks and Valleys
Peaks and Valleys b Mandy O’Hara, MD, MPH House staff lecture today covers child maltreatment, and I compare and contrast cases of child neglect. Although … Read More
Edvard Munch: Painting the Soul
“If the soul is where feelings and emotions reside, then the soul is where the Norwegian expressionist painter, Edvard Munch, visited and is the source for many of his paintings.”
