No Estás Sola
Dora taught me that care is not just found in grand gestures or lifesaving procedures. It is in the quiet moments when someone chooses to listen, to sit beside another in their suffering, and to act w...
9 Feb 5min
Listening Beyond the Monitors: A Lesson from Joe
In the fast-paced world of health care, it's easy to focus on numbers, treatments, and protocols. But humanism requires us to pause, to listen, to acknowledge the fears, hopes, and humanity of our pat...
26 Jan 4min
Being Intentional: How Space, Place, and Pace Influence Equity in Workplace-Based Assessment
Discussing new research into how the physical and social context of the clinical learning environment shape power dynamics and influence equity in assessment for residents are author Hannah Kakara And...
12 Jan 42min
A Big Deal
Our stories make us human and shape the doctors we become. Yet, we rarely let our pasts show from beneath our white coats. Sydney Katz reflects on how little trainees and attendings know about one an...
5 Jan 4min
Presence Beyond Language: A Medical Student's First Day in Clinic
Although discussions about language services like interpreters or translators, patient–provider concordance, and linguistic equity merit much greater consideration, I can offer one reflection: the hum...
15 Des 20255min
Denatured
When I am in the hospital, there is at least a semblance of humanity. In a room with a patient, there is the possibility of the unexpected. Alone with my computer, there is only the ruthless pursuit o...
8 Des 20254min
Picturing Practice as a Medical Student
As I brought the blade to the patient, I tried to infer the right depth, weight, and speed by matching to my pictured recollection of all the other incisions I had seen—an act, perhaps, akin to Ansel ...
1 Des 20253min
Reflections After Testifying at an Asylum Hearing
My hope is that, by learning to recognize how physicians interface with injustice in systems early in their training, learners will be better prepared to navigate and, when necessary, defy these syste...
17 Nov 20256min
