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Doctor Hustle: Spotlight on Dr. Mike Natter
Doctor Hustle is a monthly podcast that aims to showcase the entrepreneurial, creative, and leadership skills of the medical community. The latest episode features Mike Natter, MD, a medical resident at NYU Langone Health, who talks about how art and creativity can provide emotional balance to the challenges of working in the field of medicine.
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How Dracula Draws on Our Biggest Health Fears
"Why remember the lord of the undead in terms of medical history? Dracula abounds with fascinating references to medicine of the day..." Dr. Howard Markel's monthly column for PBS NewsHour highlights the anniversary of a momentous event that continues to shape modern medicine.
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From Postcard to
Book Cover
This article, by E. Thomas Ewing, PhD, Katherine Randall, and Jeffrey S. Reznick, PhD, illustrates the connections between medical history and digital humanities, and how changes in medium create new possibilities for scholarly analysis, interpretation, and dissemination.
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You Did Not Teach Me What You Thought You Did
Marie Archambault Carlson, MD, MPH, writes movingly of "being chronically ill, while working among the well...of being diseased while wearing the healer’s white coat...[and] most painfully, being fully human among those who know human bodies most intimately."
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Highlights from
Division of Medical Humanities Projects at NYU Langone Health
BLR Featured Poem: "During Their Dissection"
The latest issue of the Bellevue Literary Review, a journal of humanity and human experience published by NYU Langone Health, brings readers into the anatomy lab in "During Their Dissection," a poem by Lauren Claus.
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New Annotation: Tony Miksanek on Breaking & Mending: A Junior Doctor's Stories of Compassion and Burnout by Joanna Cannon
"A British physician-writer reflects on her topsy-turvy medical training emphasizing the mental and emotional burden of becoming a doctor. In 22 brief chapters...a struggle between hope and despair furiously plays out—in patients, hospital staff, and the narrator."
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Quick Links
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
Call for Chapters
Writing in the health professions: Perspectives, problems, and practices
"Writing in the health professions" is, as yet, an emergent sub-discipline, raising a great many questions for teacher-scholars. Therefore, the purpose of this edited collection is to advance "writing in the health professions" practically and theoretically, providing an accessible resource that can support writing instruction across fields. Deadline: December 1, 2019. More information.
Call for Medical Humanities Submissions for International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention (IJDRP)
IJDRP seeks original, previously unpublished poetry, reflective essays, personal vignettes, book reviews, and visual art that pertains to the practice of health promotion, disease reversal, and/or disease prevention. Deadline: December 15, 2019. More information.
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- 2019 Conley Art of Medicine Contest, deadline 10/25/19
- International Conference on Storytelling and Well-being Across Media Borders, abstract deadline 10/31/19
- Humor in Health Care (special issue of AMA Journal of Ethics), deadline 11/1/19
- Health and Disease in Popular Culture (Popular and American Culture Association Meeting), proposal deadline 11/1/19
- Studies in Comics – Special Issue on Comics and Education, deadline 11/1/19
- Space & Medical Humanities, deadline 11/30/19
- 4th Annual Kalanithi Award, deadline 12/1/19
- Signs of Life Anthology, deadline 12/31/19
- Society for the Social History of Medicine 50th Anniversary Conference, CFP on "Resilience," deadline 12/31/19
- Clio in the Clinic: A Special Issue of Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences on Teaching Medical History in Clinical Settings, deadline 1/1/20
- Hektoen International Seeks Submissions on "Blood", deadline 1/15/20
- Space, Place and Design in the Medical and Health Humanities (CFP for Summer Institute 2020, CHCI Health and Medical Humanities Network, University of Southern Denmark, June 25-27, 2020), abstract deadline 1/20/20
- Critical and Cultural Perspectives on Dementia Today, rolling deadline through 2/28/20
- Legacies of the Holocaust in Health Care (special issue of AMA Journal of Ethics), deadline 2/28/20
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Events
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The Examined Life Conference
The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine will host its 13th annual three-day conference focusing on the links between medicine and the arts.
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Bay Path Writers’ Day: The Healing Power of Narrative Medicine
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2019 Gold Humanism Summit
The first Gold Humanism Summit is a special gathering of supporters of humanism in healthcare, including GHHS members, faculty members supporting humanism in their medical or nursing school, Mapping the Landscape (MTL) researchers, healthcare CEOs who wants to infuse compassion into their organization's culture—anyone passionate about humanistic care.
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Off The Page: A Reading from the Bellevue Literary Review
Actors from stage and screen bring work from the latest issue of BLR to life through dramatic readings. At NYU Langone Health
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'Cripping' Graphic Medicine: Psychiatric Disability, 'Crip' Culture, and the Health Humanities
At Syracuse University
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Doctors Differ: Early Medical Caricature and the Birth of the Comics Form
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Back to Black(well’s): A Book Talk
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The Hidden World of Care: A Medical Humanities Symposium
Hosted by the Medical Humanities Program of Drew University
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Narrative Medicine Rounds: “Hypochondria and History: Searching for Story”
A talk by novelist Deborah Levy
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2019 AMWA Medical Writing & Communication Conference
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The AAMC Annual Meeting: Learn Serve Lead 2019
Each year, the Gold Foundation hosts several major sessions at the AAMC, including the Jordan J. Cohen Humanism in Medicine Lecture, this year given by Dr. Rana Awdish, as well as a special reception that convenes the Gold community from around the country. This year’s reception is co-hosted by the Vilcek Foundation and will honor the inaugural Vilcek-Gold Humanism in Healthcare recipient, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, as well as Dr. Awdish.
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People V. Cancer
What does it mean to live with cancer today? And how do we lead with empathy and compassion to ensure that the treatment is right for the patient? At People v. Cancer, The Atlantic will illuminate stories from the frontlines of the cancer community, from the latest oncology breakthroughs to the power of the human experience.
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Hysteria or Misogyny? Women, Madness, and Mental Health
At USC's Doheny Memorial Library
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Drawing on Disability: Graphic Medicine
Speaker: M.K. Czerwiec, nurse, cartoonist, educator, and creator of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/Aids Care Unit 371
At the Greater Wilkes-Barre (PA) Chamber of Commerce
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Introduction to Preapproval Access to Investigational Medical Products
Free webinar sponsored by CUPA (The NYU School of Medicine Working Group on Compassionate Use and Preapproval Access), a project of the NYU School of Medicine Division of Medical Ethics. To reserve your spot for this free WebEx event, please email Kelly Folkers.
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