Leana Wen, MD, MSc is the Baltimore City Health Commissioner and an emergency physician, public health leader, and patient advocate. Since her appointment in January 2015, Dr. Wen has led implementation of the citywide opioid overdose prevention and response plan, and in the wake of
Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine is a literary journal created in 2010 by students in Columbia University’s Master of Science in Narrative Medicine program. The journal is now open to submissions for its Fall 2015 issue. The deadline for submissions is Friday, July 31st at midnight. Intima
With the publication of my historical fiction novel Isthmus, the second book in the Widow Walk saga, I am now scheduled to tour the book and present it at a number of gatherings. Book readings are always interesting experiences. Another physician-writer friend, Richard Selzer MD, once
Terry Buchmiller, MD is an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and a specialist in pediatric surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is also a skilled violinist who plays in the Longwood Symphony Orchestra, an orchestra in its 28th year that is composed
In my last two posts (Part 1 and Part 2), I explored the research paradigm of American medical training. The takeaway was that research requirements may create inefficiencies that have a host of consequences, including an unnecessarily long training process, a potential physician shortage, and
Damon Tweedy, MD, JD is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center and staff physician at the Durham VA Medical Center. He is a graduate of Duke Medical School and Yale Law School. His first book, Black Man in a White Coat: