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
High Anxiety: Going Viral? By Howard Trachtman, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Co-editor, LitMed Database.
Jenny Offill’s new book, Weather was reviewed in the New York Times and other high prestige publications in the middle of February, right before the … Read More
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
Christopher Kerr, MD, PhD, is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer at Hospice and Palliative Care Buffalo. Carine Mardorossian, PhD, is a Professor of … Read More
