Today, we sit down to talk to Dr. Benoit Dubé, the Chief Wellness Officer of the University of Pennsylvania. Find out what it means to be a chief wellness officer of, well.. anything, and how much of Dr. Dubé’s path to psychiatry had to do
The Shame of Losing by Sarah Cannon 264 pp, ISBN 978-1-59709-624-9, Red Hen Press, 2018 When my son was seventeen, he suffered a traumatic brain injury at the hands of a drunk driver in a crash that killed his girlfriend. A detective showed up at
In my painting I use fundamental, geometric shapes: squares, rectangles, triangles, and an occasional circle as a kind of vocabulary. I arrange the forms to interplay with one another. I use color to fill the forms or highlight the forms and create other interactions. You
What does race have to do with the way we treat opioid addiction in the U.S.? What can we do to understand this issue and address it creatively? Listen as we tackle these complex issues this week and talk about the value of incorporating different
This week we talk to Dr. Paul Offit, co-creator of the rotavirus vaccine. His training in pediatrics and infectious diseases, as well as his childhood experience in a polio ward, led him to become a champion for children. In addition to his prolific writing (he’s
Leonardo’s Brain: Understanding da Vinci’s Creative Genius By Leonard Shlain 256 pages, Lyons Press, 2015 Image from Lyons Press Several months ago, my best friend gave me Leonardo’s Brain as a college graduation gift. Little did he know, this book had been on my list
This week we talk to Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, who is a physician, philanthropist, activist, and filmmaker based in the Bay Area. She is the founder of the End Well foundation, a non-profit focusing in issues of end-of-life care and palliative care. Listen as we
Image from Penguin Random House God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine By Victoria Sweet 416 pp. Riverhead Books. When Victoria Sweet decides to become a physician (the first in her family) she thinks she is going
How do you create a medical podcast? In this meta episode of Doctors Who Create, we speak with the team at CORE IM about how their podcast came to be. Dr. Shreya Trivedi, Dr. Marty Fried, Dr. Steve Liu, and Dr. John Hwang speak candidly
At the 28th annual Art Days exhibition, the Hiebert Lounge at Boston University School of Medicine displayed a wide range of artwork by students, faculty and staff. Walking through the exhibit, I was awestruck to learn that many of my classmates and professors were
Image from Little, Brown and Company Book Review by Jeffrey Millstein, MD You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor’s Stories of Life, Death and in Between By Daniela Lamas Release date: March 26, 2018 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Pages: 256 You Can Stop Humming
The medicine of ancient India, also called the Ayurveda, combined mystical experience with scientific inquiry to construct a commentary on life and tradition. The term Ayurveda itself combines the Sanskrit words Ayur, or life, and veda, or science and knowledge. However, the “life science” of
“What Are You Doing Creatively These Days?” That is the very question that Dr. Niamh Kelly, associate professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia, asks in her article published in the journal Academic Medicine. In this episode,
Dr. Chethan Sarabu is a pediatrician and landscape architect and currently a fellow in clinical informatics at Stanford University. Dr. Sarabu double majored in Biology and Landscape Architecture at the University of Cornell. After completing his undergraduate studies, he then completed medical school at SUNY
What if you could use an online game to teach residents how to properly deal with medical emergencies, by simulating the real life-or-death decisions they must make in a fast-paced environment? Darlina Liu talks to Dr. Lisa Shieh, professor of medicine at Stanford and creator
As a burned out resident, hoping to reconnect with my own humanity and remind myself of the deep meaning present in my job, (and provide a platform for others to do the same), I started The Nocturnists, a live storytelling event for doctors and other
Breast and cervical cancers are considered the most common cancers amongst women, and the American Cancer Society estimates the incidence of breast and cervical cancer for 2018 to be 266,120 and 13,240, respectively. Unfortunately, fatality due to both is high, with the poorest prognosis occurring
In Shock by Rana Awdish 265 pages, St. Martin’s Press, 2017 I read Dr. Rana Awdish’s book, In Shock, from cover to cover on a six-hour flight from Philadelphia to San Francisco. I started it expecting to read for just an hour or two and
Rana Awdish, MD, FCCP is an intensive care physician and director of the pulmonary hypertension program at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, and is the author of the book In Shock, a memoir based on her own experience with critical illness that landed her in
Intimate Watercolor and ink on paper Reference: Netter’s Atlas of Human Anatomy, 6th ed. How does one visually depict the topic of anatomical donation and cadaver dissection, memorializing the donors’ ultimate gift to medical education while preserving the sanctity of their bodies? “Intimate” is one