“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons,
the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
Category: SOM Voices
Updates from the Rudin Fellowship
The Rudin Fellowship in Medical Ethics and Humanities was established as a core component of the Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine (MSPHM) at NYU School of Medicine in 2014 through a generous grant …
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of The House of God
It was a full house in Farkas auditorium, as the audience buzzed with excitement for an event 40 years in the making. People were gathered to celebrate The House of God, a work of fiction that laid bare some of the darker aspects of the medical profession and can be perceived as a harbinger of many reforms of the ensuing years.
Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database 25th Anniversary
The LitMed Database is one of the treasures of our medical center. Created and nurtured by two former faculty members—Felice Aull (Ph. D.) and her late husband Martin Nachbar (M.D.)— it quickly became the gold standard for teaching and scholarship in the then infant field of medical humanities.
My life as an intern
Michael Natter | 2017 Rudin Fellow Michael Natter was born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where he was surrounded by many cultural influences growing up. He …
My life as an intern
Michael Natter was born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where he was surrounded by many cultural influences growing up. He was innately drawn toward the visual arts and has been creating art since he could hold a crayon.
NYU Medical students visit the Mütter Museum
Early in the morning on October 7th, a Saturday so delightfully sunny and warm that it no doubt belonged to the extended summer of 2017, a contingent of NYU medical …
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital
Last month, I had the pleasure of sitting down with David Oshinsky, director of the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU School of Medicine. He is the author of Bellevue:Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital and won the Pulitzer prize for his book Polio: An American Story.
Posthumous Portraiture Exhibit at the Folk Art Museum
There is something eerie about walking into the Folk Art Museum’s posthumous portraiture exhibit. The last line of the introductory panel to the exhibit reads: “We cannot help but hear them whisper ‘remember me.’” This sentiment rings true.