April 21, 2021
Grief in the Media
April 7, 2021
Honoring the Ordinary
Rachel Fleishman: The Everyday
Pat Schneider: The Patience of Ordinary Things
March 17, 2021
Expectations
March 3, 2021
Medical Uncertainty
Veneta Masson: Reference Range
Bruno Perillo: Secretly Hoping for Plan C
February 17, 2021
The Poetry of Amanda Gorman
Amanda Gorman: The Hill We Climb
Sherrie Silver and Amanda Gorman: Young Women
February 3, 2021
The Future of Mental Health Care
Anna Mehler Paperny: Hello I Want To Die Please Fix Me
December 16, 2020
The Work and Achievements of Louise Glück
Louise Glück: The Untrustworthy Speaker
December 2, 2020
The Power of Touch
Michael Wang: The Compassionate Clinical Exam
The Nocturnists: Black Voices in Healthcare (Episode 8: Touch)
November 18, 2020
A Question of Time
Claudia Castro Luna: Assiduously
October 21, 2020
Calibrating Empathy
Jamil Zaki: The War for Kindness
Numinous Games: That Dragon, Cancer
October 7, 2020
Honoring the Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Ruth Bader Ginsberg: Selected Quotes
September 16, 2020
Cultural Barriers in the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Anne Fadiman: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
September 2, 2020
Suicide Prevention
Justin L. Bollock: Suicide — Rewriting My Story
Special Guest: Dr. Juveria Zaheer (@juveriazaheer)
August 19, 2020
Forces of Nature
Thomas Hart Benton: Cave Spring
Special Guest: Louise A. Blum (@LouiseABlum)
August 5, 2020
The Single Story
Chimamanda Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story
July 15, 2020
Life in Lockdown
Kitty O'Meara: In the Time of Pandemic
July 1, 2020
Humanizing the Experience of Migrants
Special Guest: Sadiqa de Meijer (@sadiqademeijer)
June 17, 2020
Just Mercy: Lessons for Healthcare
June 3, 2020
Racism, Police Violence, and the Struggle for Justice
Reginald Dwayne Betts: When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving
Lenelle Moïse: where our protest sound
Langston Hughes: Let America Be America Again
May 20, 2020
Emotional Strength While Facing Uncertainty
William Stafford: For My Young Friends Who Are Afraid
May 6, 2020
Maintaining Hope
Emily Dickinson: “Hope” is the Thing with Feathers
Thomas Centolella: The Hope I Know
Special Guest: Dr. Perri Klass (@PerriKlass)
April 15, 2020
Illness in the Classics
L.M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables
Louisa May Alcott: Little Women
Special Guest: Dr. Perri Klass (@PerriKlass)
April 1, 2020
Gallows Humor in Medicine
Samuel Shem: The House of God
Katie Watson: Gallows Humor in Medicine
Special Guest: Dr. Margot Hedlin (@MargotHedlin)
March 18, 2020
End of Life
Peggy Duffy: On the Eve of My Mother’s Dying
Mark Doty: Brilliance
March 4, 2020
Making Mistakes
Michael Natter: Progress Notes: Sweater
Elisabeth Poorman: The Point of No Return
Special Guests: Drs. Elisabeth Poorman (@DrPoorman) & Michael Natter (@mike_natter)
February 19, 2020
Disability, Identity, & Self-Representation
Frida Kahlo: The Broken Column
Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving
Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait with the Portrait of Dr. Farill
Special Guest: Rana Awdish, MD (@RanaAwdish)
February 5, 2020
Weight Bias in Medicine
Isabelle Lomax-Sawyers: On being a fat medical student, at the start of our metabolism module
Your Fat Friend: How Health Care Bias Harms Fat Patients
Special Guest: Isabelle Lomax-Sawyers (@izzylomax)
January 15, 2020
MedHumClassics
Anton Chekhov: Enemies
Special Guest: Dr. Suzanne Koven (@SuzanneKovenMD)
December 18, 2019
Looking upon Death: Art at the Deathbed
Claude Monet: Camille Monet on Her Deathbed
Edvard Munch: By the Death Bed
Daphne Todd: Last Portrait of Mother
Special Guest: Dr. Margaret Chisolm (@whole_patients)
December 9, 2019
LGBTQ+ Connection and Disconnection in Healthcare
Kara Sievewright: Queer in Common Country
Ariel Estrella: Healing Exchanges
Special Guests: Zena Sharman (@zenasharman) and Ariel Estrella (@arielmestrella)
November 27, 2019
The Heart: Metaphor and Machine
e. e. cummings: [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]
Sandeep Jauhar: How Your Emotions Change the Shape of Your Heart
Haider Warraich: State of the Heart
Special Guests: Haider Warraich, MD (@haiderwarraich) and Sandeep Jauhar, MD (@sjauhar)
November 14, 2019
Learning
Mary Oliver: Starfish
Doug Hester: An Intern's Recollection of a Night at the VA, July 2004
Special Guests: Anna Reisman, MD and Michael Vitez
November 6, 2019
Managing Expectations
Pablo Picasso: Head of the Medical Student
Sonia Singh: Morning Report
Special Guests: Dr. Sonia Singh, MD and Dr. Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu, MSc, MD
October 16, 2019
The Hospital
Donald Hall: The Ship Pounding
Toni L. Wilkes: Things My Daughter Lost in Hospitals
Special Guests: Hui-wen Sato, RN and Dr. Suzanne Koven, MD
October 2, 2019
Attention
Marge Piercy: Doors opening, closing on us
Sarah Manguso: The Two Kinds of Decay
September 18, 2019
The Emotion of Pain
Judy Chicago: Smiling Through Gritted Teeth
Sonya Huber: What Pain Wants
September 4, 2019
Reproductive Trauma: Ending the Silence
Karen McCarthy Woolf: An Aviary of Small Birds
Eliot North: Shame, Denial and Reproductive Trauma: the conversations we need to have, and don’t
Special Guest: Josephine Johnston
August 21, 2019
The Living History of the “Father of Modern Gynecology”
Bettina Judd: You Be Lucy, I’ll Be Betsey
Bettina Judd: The Researcher Discovers Anarcha, Betsey, Lucy
Special Guest: Dr. Oni Blackstock, MD
August 7, 2019
Mental Illness & Identity
Kay Redfield Jamison: An Unquiet Mind
Esmé Weijun Wang: Perdition Days
Special Guest: Dr. Pooja Lakshmin, MD
June 26, 2019
LGBTQ+ Pride
Kai Cheng Tom: Pursuing Happiness as a Trans Woman of Color
Sam Sax: On PrEP or on Prayer
Special Guests: Leanne Ho and Dr. Patrick Herron, D.Be.
May 29, 2019
Trauma Informed Care
Jennifer Tsai: Resistance and Surrender
Alan Dugan: Family Scene: Young Vet and Relatives
Special Guests: Dr. Meg Gerber, MD, and Dr. Jennifer Tsai, MD, M.Ed.
May 22, 2019
Depression: Identity & Worldview
Andrew Solomon: Depression is a Thing with Feathers
Pablo Picasso: Celestina
May 15, 2019
The Internship Experience
Danielle Ofri: Singular Intimacies
Matt McCarthy: The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly
Special Guests: Dr. Matt McCarthy, MD, and Dr. William Bynum, MD
April 24, 2019
Humanizing the ICU
Daniela Lamas: You Can Stop Humming Now
Rana Awdish: In Shock
Special Guests: Dr. Daniela Lamas, MD, Dr. Rana Awdish, MD, and Brooke Vittimberga
April 20, 2019
Writing in Medicine
Rafael Campo: Why Doctors Write
Special Guests: Dr. Margot Hedlin, MD and Dr. Grace Oliver, MD
April 17, 2019
The Experience of Human Dissection in the Anatomy Lab
Christine Montross: Body of Work
Ashna Asim: Anastomosis
April 3, 2019
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Special Guest: Leo E. Brown
March 20, 2019
Subjectivity & Pain
Eula Biss: The Pain Scale
Emily Dickinson: Pain Has an Element of Blank
March 6, 2019
The Body as Garden
Zachary Sager: Nurturing Medicine
Victoria Sweet: God’s Hotel
Special Guest: Dr. Zachary Sager, MD
February 27, 2019
Uncertainty In the Patient Experience
Chana Bloch: In the Land of the Body (#2)
Paul Kalanithi: How Long Have I Got Left?
February 20, 2019
Poverty, Homelessness, & Health in the Poetry of Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht: A Worker’s Speech to a Doctor
Bertolt Brecht: A Bed for the Night
Special Guests: Dr. Kelly Doran, MD and Dr. David Rosenthal, MD
February 13, 2019
Music & Laughter on the Oncology Ward
Rafael Campo: The Performance
Suleika Jaouad: The Beat Goes On
February 6, 2019
Nature, Death, & the Soul in the Poetry of Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver: The Rabbit
Mary Oliver: Bone
January 30, 2019
The Messy Relationship between Food & Medicine
Diana Cejas: Meat Slurry and My Particular Brand of Optimism
Irène Mathieu: the benediction of Our Lady of Hyperglycemia
Special Guests: Dr. Diana Cejas, MD and Dr. Irène Mathieu, MD
January 16, 2019
Racism & Medicine
Sriram Shamasunder: Racism and the Off-Duty Doctor
Maya Angelou: Caged Bird
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Tough Mind And A Tender Heart
January 2, 2019
Can Fairy Tales & Poetry Help Us Heal?
Valerie Gribben: Practicing Medicine Can Be Grimm Work
Jane O Wayne: Intensive Care