Columbia Narrative Medicine

10/08/2025

JOIN US OCTOBER 21st at 6pm EDT for our next Narrative Acts/Community Action, where Narrative Medicine faculty Samantha Barrick and author-facilitator Antoinette Cooper examine what it means to practice care in a nation built on wounding. Diagnosing our collective toxicology and prescribing ceremony over clinical distance, they ask: what scaffolding does dignity require? What structures must we build to tend to each other?

Narrative Acts/Community Action is a new narrative medicine virtual series to engage with our alumni, faculty and the global community as we explore through their work ways the humanities and creative arts are an actionable path toward community-centered change and responding to difficult times.

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Join us to hear from narrative medicine founders and alums about their own creative works, and explore the possibility of the humanities and arts as a means to navigate difficult times.

09/24/2025

**Dear colleagues in Narrative Medicine, Because of sudden changes in the Columbia University calendar, we are obliged to postpone the Narrative Medicine Rounds scheduled for October 1, 2025 featuring Dr. Uché Blackstock and Dr. Hetty Cunningham. An alternate date is now being sought.**

We acknowledge that our scheduling procedures failed to recognize that Yom Kippur begins that evening. Our responsibilities to honor all cultural traditions were not honored by scheduling a university event on that evening. We deeply regret this late change, and we commit ourselves to ever strengthening our capacity to recognize all members of our multi-cultural community.

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For our second rounds of the fall semester, we have the supreme privilege of welcoming Dr. Uché Blackstock, the founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity (AHE), who appears regularly on MSNBC and NBC News, and is a former associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the former faculty director for recruitment, retention, and inclusion in the Office of Diversity Affairs at NYU School of Medicine. Dr. Blackstock's generational memoir, LEGACY: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine was published by Viking Books on January 23, 2024 and became an instant New York Times best-seller.

In Legacy, Blackstock journeys through the critical intersection of racism and healthcare. At once a searing indictment of our health-care system, a generational family memoir, and a call to action, Legacy is Dr. Blackstock’s odyssey from child to medical student to practicing physician—to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed an organization of Black women physicians, and for years the girls watched these fiercely intelligent women in white coats tend to their patients and neighbors, host community health fairs, cure ills, and save lives.

What Dr. Uché Blackstock did not understand as a child—or learn about at Harvard Medical School, where she and her sister had followed in their mother’s footsteps, making them the first Black mother-daughter legacies from the school—were the profound and long-standing systemic inequities that mean just 2 percent of all U.S. physicians today are Black women; the racist practices and policies that ensure Black Americans have far worse health outcomes than any other group in the country; and the flawed system that endangers the well-being of communities like theirs. As an ER physician, and later as a professor in academic medicine, Dr. Blackstock became profoundly aware of the systemic barriers that Black patients and physicians continue to face.

In 2019, Dr. Blackstock founded AHE which partners with organizations to drive measurable change in health outcomes by embedding equity into leadership, strategy, and clinical practice. In its five years of existence, AHE has helped major companies, hospitals, and health systems create strategic plans for promoting equitable health care moving forward.
Dr. Blackstock’s writing, including numerous OpEds, has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Scientific American, the Washington Post and New York Magazine.

She was recognized by Forbes Magazine, in 2019, as one of “10 Diversity and Inclusion Trailblazers You Need to Get Familiar With", in 2023 by Fortune Magazine as one of "13 Innovators Shaping the Future of Health” and in 2024, as one of TIME's "100 Most Influential People in Health". In 2025, she received the NAACP Dr. Williams Cobb Montague Health Equity Award.

Dr. Blackstock received both undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University, making her and her twin sister, Oni, the first Black mother-daughter legacy graduates from Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Blackstock currently lives in her hometown of Brooklyn, New York, with her two school-age children.

Dr. Blackstock will be in conversation with Hetty Cunningham, MD, Associate Professor at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Director of the Narrative Medicine Portfolio curriculum at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Since joining the Department of Pediatrics faculty in 1998, Dr. Cunningham has worked to improve health equity at all levels, with a particular focus on curriculum and faculty development in the areas of health disparities, implicit bias, social determinants of health, race in medicine, cultural competency, communication skills, and narrative medicine for medical students, residents, and faculty. Dr. Cunningham is a second-generation Harlem resident, where she lives, sees patients from birth to age 21, and teaches pediatric residents at a NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-affiliated community-based practice. She can be seen as expert health disparities discussant in the Smithsonian Channel film The Color of Care, by acclaimed director Yance Ford, produced by Oprah Winfrey.

09/24/2025

🙌 Congratulations to Renée Saindon Russas, Administrative Manager of the Division of Narrative Medicine at Columbia University, for producing and directing THESE SHINING LIVES, a play telling the true story about the "Radium Girls," a moving exploration of knowledge, power, and justice.

🎟️ If you are in the NYC area this weekend, there are just a few tickets left: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6695474

📖 Written by Melanie Marnich, These Shining Lives tells the true story of the ‘Radium Girls,’ young women employed at the Illinois factory of United Radium Dial Company in the 1920s and 1930s. Tasked with painting watch dials using paint based with Marie and Pierre Curie’s newly discovered element, Radium to make the clock numbers glow-- they unknowingly were being poisoned. The play follows Catherine Donohue and her coworkers as they navigate growing side effects and fight for justice against a company that prioritizes profit over human life. More than historical drama, it’s a moving exploration of knowledge, power, and justice.

🗓️ Sept 25 at 7pm, Sept 27 at 8pm, Sept 28 at 2:00pm

📍 An Beal Bocht Cafe 445 W 238th St, Bronx, NY 10463

09/08/2025

JOIN US Wednesday October 1st at 6pm EDT for our rounds.

For our second rounds of the fall semester, we have the supreme privilege of welcoming Dr. Uché Blackstock, the founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity (AHE), who appears regularly on MSNBC and NBC News, and is a former associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the former faculty director for recruitment, retention, and inclusion in the Office of Diversity Affairs at NYU School of Medicine. Dr. Blackstock's generational memoir, LEGACY: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine was published by Viking Books on January 23, 2024 and became an instant New York Times best-seller.

In Legacy, Blackstock journeys through the critical intersection of racism and healthcare. At once a searing indictment of our health-care system, a generational family memoir, and a call to action, Legacy is Dr. Blackstock’s odyssey from child to medical student to practicing physician—to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed an organization of Black women physicians, and for years the girls watched these fiercely intelligent women in white coats tend to their patients and neighbors, host community health fairs, cure ills, and save lives.

What Dr. Uché Blackstock did not understand as a child—or learn about at Harvard Medical School, where she and her sister had followed in their mother’s footsteps, making them the first Black mother-daughter legacies from the school—were the profound and long-standing systemic inequities that mean just 2 percent of all U.S. physicians today are Black women; the racist practices and policies that ensure Black Americans have far worse health outcomes than any other group in the country; and the flawed system that endangers the well-being of communities like theirs. As an ER physician, and later as a professor in academic medicine, Dr. Blackstock became profoundly aware of the systemic barriers that Black patients and physicians continue to face.

In 2019, Dr. Blackstock founded AHE which partners with organizations to drive measurable change in health outcomes by embedding equity into leadership, strategy, and clinical practice. In its five years of existence, AHE has helped major companies, hospitals, and health systems create strategic plans for promoting equitable health care moving forward.
Dr. Blackstock’s writing, including numerous OpEds, has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Scientific American, the Washington Post and New York Magazine.

She was recognized by Forbes Magazine, in 2019, as one of “10 Diversity and Inclusion Trailblazers You Need to Get Familiar With", in 2023 by Fortune Magazine as one of "13 Innovators Shaping the Future of Health” and in 2024, as one of TIME's "100 Most Influential People in Health". In 2025, she received the NAACP Dr. Williams Cobb Montague Health Equity Award.

Dr. Blackstock received both undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University, making her and her twin sister, Oni, the first Black mother-daughter legacy graduates from Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Blackstock currently lives in her hometown of Brooklyn, New York, with her two school-age children.

Dr. Blackstock will be in conversation with Hetty Cunningham, MD, Associate Professor at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Director of the Narrative Medicine Portfolio curriculum at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Since joining the Department of Pediatrics faculty in 1998, Dr. Cunningham has worked to improve health equity at all levels, with a particular focus on curriculum and faculty development in the areas of health disparities, implicit bias, social determinants of health, race in medicine, cultural competency, communication skills, and narrative medicine for medical students, residents, and faculty. Dr. Cunningham is a second-generation Harlem resident, where she lives, sees patients from birth to age 21, and teaches pediatric residents at a NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-affiliated community-based practice. She can be seen as expert health disparities discussant in the Smithsonian Channel film The Color of Care, by acclaimed director Yance Ford, produced by Oprah Winfrey.

MORE INFO & REGISTRATION:

For our October rounds, we have the supreme privilege of welcoming Dr. Uché Blackstock, the founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity (AHE).

09/02/2025

JOIN US TOMORROW Wednesday September 3rd at 6pm EDT for our rounds.

For our opening rounds of the fall semester, we have the distinct honor of welcoming Lidia Yuknavitch, the National Bestselling author of four novels: Thrust, The Book of Joan, Dora: A Headcase, and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Awards Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the OBA Reader's Choice Award. Her newest memoir, Reading the Waves, was published by Riverhead books in 2025.

In Reading the Waves, Yuknavitch draws from her complex past — her father's abuse, her relationship with her disabled mother, the loss of her child, and her sexual relationships with men and women — to harness the power of literature and storytelling to reframe her memories. As an author and teacher, she uses this creative insight to transform her wounds into a source of emotional growth and restoration.

By turns candid and lyrical, stoic and forgiving, blunt and evocative, Reading the Waves reframes memory to show how crucial this process can be to gaining a deeper understanding of ourselves.

In addition, Yuknavitch has published a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories Of Violence (Routledge). The Misfit's Manifesto, a book based on her recent TED Talk published by TED Books in 2017. Verge, a collection of short fiction released in 2020. Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice.

She has also had writing appear in publications including Guernica Magazine, Ms., The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Another Chicago Magazine, The Sun, Exquisite Co**se, TANK, and in the anthologies Life As We Show It (City Lights), Wreckage of Reason (Spuytin Duyvil), Forms at War (FC2), Feminaissance (Les Figues Press), and Representing Bisexualities (SUNY), as well as online at The Rumpus.

Yuknavitch founded the workshop series Corporeal Writing in Portland Oregon, where she teaches both in person and online. She received her doctorate in Literature from the University of Oregon. She is a very good swimmer.

Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician, writer and PEN /American Robert W. Bingham Debut Fiction award finalist for her story collection WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS: STORIES, which was also selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best Debut Fiction and Best Short Story Collection and appeared on "best of" lists for Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Vogue India, and Entertainment Weekly. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Electric Literature, Kenyon Review, Masters Review, The Sun, The Millions, Joyland, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Awl, and anthologized elsewhere. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Community of Writers, Kimmel Harding Nelson, Helene Wurllitzer and Sewanee Writers Conference.

MORE INFO & REGISTRATION:

For our opening rounds of the fall semester, we have the distinct honor of welcoming Lidia Yuknavitch, National Bestselling author speak about her newest memoir, Reading the Waves.

08/27/2025

JOIN US NEXT WEEK on Wednesday September 3rd at 6pm EDT for our rounds.

For our opening rounds of the fall semester, we have the distinct honor of welcoming Lidia Yuknavitch, the National Bestselling author of four novels: Thrust, The Book of Joan, Dora: A Headcase, and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Awards Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the OBA Reader's Choice Award. Her newest memoir, Reading the Waves, was published by Riverhead books in 2025.

In Reading the Waves, Yuknavitch draws from her complex past — her father's abuse, her relationship with her disabled mother, the loss of her child, and her sexual relationships with men and women — to harness the power of literature and storytelling to reframe her memories. As an author and teacher, she uses this creative insight to transform her wounds into a source of emotional growth and restoration.

By turns candid and lyrical, stoic and forgiving, blunt and evocative, Reading the Waves reframes memory to show how crucial this process can be to gaining a deeper understanding of ourselves.

In addition, Yuknavitch has published a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories Of Violence (Routledge). The Misfit's Manifesto, a book based on her recent TED Talk published by TED Books in 2017. Verge, a collection of short fiction released in 2020. Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice.

She has also had writing appear in publications including Guernica Magazine, Ms., The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Another Chicago Magazine, The Sun, Exquisite Co**se, TANK, and in the anthologies Life As We Show It (City Lights), Wreckage of Reason (Spuytin Duyvil), Forms at War (FC2), Feminaissance (Les Figues Press), and Representing Bisexualities (SUNY), as well as online at The Rumpus.

Yuknavitch founded the workshop series Corporeal Writing in Portland Oregon, where she teaches both in person and online. She received her doctorate in Literature from the University of Oregon. She is a very good swimmer.

Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician, writer and PEN /American Robert W. Bingham Debut Fiction award finalist for her story collection WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS: STORIES, which was also selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best Debut Fiction and Best Short Story Collection and appeared on "best of" lists for Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Vogue India, and Entertainment Weekly. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Electric Literature, Kenyon Review, Masters Review, The Sun, The Millions, Joyland, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Awl, and anthologized elsewhere. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Community of Writers, Kimmel Harding Nelson, Helene Wurllitzer and Sewanee Writers Conference.

MORE INFO & REGISTRATION:

For our opening rounds of the fall semester, we have the distinct honor of welcoming Lidia Yuknavitch, National Bestselling author speak about her newest memoir, Reading the Waves.

08/20/2025

JOIN US Wednesday September 3rd at 6pm EDT for our rounds.

For our opening rounds of the fall semester, we have the distinct honor of welcoming Lidia Yuknavitch, the National Bestselling author of four novels: Thrust, The Book of Joan, Dora: A Headcase, and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Awards Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the OBA Reader's Choice Award. Her newest memoir, Reading the Waves, was published by Riverhead books in 2025.

In Reading the Waves, Yuknavitch draws from her complex past — her father's abuse, her relationship with her disabled mother, the loss of her child, and her sexual relationships with men and women — to harness the power of literature and storytelling to reframe her memories. As an author and teacher, she uses this creative insight to transform her wounds into a source of emotional growth and restoration.

By turns candid and lyrical, stoic and forgiving, blunt and evocative, Reading the Waves reframes memory to show how crucial this process can be to gaining a deeper understanding of ourselves.

In addition, Yuknavitch has published a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories Of Violence (Routledge). The Misfit's Manifesto, a book based on her recent TED Talk published by TED Books in 2017. Verge, a collection of short fiction released in 2020. Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice.

She has also had writing appear in publications including Guernica Magazine, Ms., The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Another Chicago Magazine, The Sun, Exquisite Co**se, TANK, and in the anthologies Life As We Show It (City Lights), Wreckage of Reason (Spuytin Duyvil), Forms at War (FC2), Feminaissance (Les Figues Press), and Representing Bisexualities (SUNY), as well as online at The Rumpus.

Yuknavitch founded the workshop series Corporeal Writing in Portland Oregon, where she teaches both in person and online. She received her doctorate in Literature from the University of Oregon. She is a very good swimmer.

Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician, writer and PEN /American Robert W. Bingham Debut Fiction award finalist for her story collection WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS: STORIES, which was also selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best Debut Fiction and Best Short Story Collection and appeared on "best of" lists for Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Vogue India, and Entertainment Weekly. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Electric Literature, Kenyon Review, Masters Review, The Sun, The Millions, Joyland, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Awl, and anthologized elsewhere. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Community of Writers, Kimmel Harding Nelson, Helene Wurllitzer and Sewanee Writers Conference.

MORE INFO & REGISTRATION:

For our opening rounds of the fall semester, we have the distinct honor of welcoming Lidia Yuknavitch, National Bestselling author speak about her newest memoir, Reading the Waves.

08/12/2025

Beyond Bedside Manner: Where Story Meets Science in Surgery
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For Ezra Schwartz MS ‘18, a medical resident in vascular surgery at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, proper “bedside manner” begins with listening. Thanks to the program’s curriculum rooted in literature, art, and reflection, his connection to patients has been transformed- even in high-pressure surgical settings.
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“Storytelling is fundamental to both comprehension and communication in medicine,” he says. “It helps contextualize complex medical systems and enhances our ability to engage with patients meaningfully.”
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A standout for Ezra was the many workshops at the Frick Museum that involved close observation of art, which pushed participants to broaden observational abilities (especially with those tiny details) and unpack biases. In these nonclinical settings, he was gifted the time to observe and reflect so that later, the learned skills could be translated into bettering patient interactions. “Doctors are not just scientists and practitioners; they are also educators and storytellers,” Schwartz says.

As a vascular surgeon, there are often difficult discussions to be had with patients, many of them living with chronic conditions or without cures for conditions. Ezra credits his time in this program for being better equipped to navigate those talks. His narrative-driven “Audible Bleeding” Podcast has featured our very own Dr. Rita Charon. He also has hosted his own close-observation workshops for medical students, collaborating with museums to promote the very same work that shaped him since he sees narrative medicine as crucial to modern health care.

🩺Click on the link below to read the full story:



https://sps.columbia.edu/news/beyond-bedside-manner-importance-art-and-story-vascular-surgery

07/24/2025

Journalist Sarah Singer shares how Columbia's CPA in Narrative Medicine helped her harness the power of storytelling to combat physician burnout and improve patient care. Now as a strategist advisor at Offcall, she’s helping doctors reclaim their stories—and their well-being.

Like many, Sarah Singer became interested in our health care systems during the pandemic. Research led her to the works of Dr. Rita Charon, and decided to use her talents to help improve health care any way she could. In the CPA program, she learned about the intersectionality of healthcare, and how powerful intentional storytelling can be within medical environments.

“As a journalist and writer, I appreciated the opportunity to connect with such smart, warm, and creative change-makers. I left so many sessions and classes feeling inspired by the elevated and thoughtful level of discussion within the community.”

Community has left a lasting impression on Sarah, saying “The expertise and experiences of the talented physicians, health care workers, and the overall diverse community of professionals within the CPA program are unique and worth celebrating.” Her favorite part of her time here was the weekend workshop that proved both personal and professional growth can come through connection rooted in storytelling.

Now at Offcall, a platform designed to reverse physician burnout through financial well-being, Sarah uses storytelling as a central part of her work in trying to capture the physician experience and a range of perspectives using different formats like opinion pieces, videos, podcasts, and facilitated discussions.

https://sps.columbia.edu/news/journalists-perspective-narrative-medicine-combatting-physician-burnout-and-systemic

07/22/2025

Meet Miniya N. Williams- a graduate of the MS in Narrative Medicine class of ‘25 and student marshal in this year’s commencement ceremony.

Originally at Spelman college while studying psychology, she was drawn to NMed after watching a Youtube video and felt it click immediately. “I knew then that Narrative Medicine was more than a field—it was a calling,” she says. “I hoped to learn how to bridge clinical care with cultural and personal narratives, especially for marginalized communities whose voices are too often left out of medical spaces,” stating how she’s learned tools to implement in her holistic wellness coaching practice where people can re-author their own stories.

Highlights from her time in the program include living in vibrant NYC, presenting at Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives conference in Doha, Qatar, and the meaningful friendships built. Miniya’s first day in Close Reading continues to work on her: “I remember hesitating to share what my partner had said because it felt sacred, like something meant just for the space between us. That was the moment I realized that storytelling can serve many purposes: connection, healing, reflection, even protection. It was a small exercise, but it became a foundational lesson I carried with me throughout the entire program.”

“Another moment I will always hold dear is presenting my final project in Embodied Borderlands with my son, Cairo, strapped to my chest. To do what I love while holding the person I love most close to me, that was one of the most rewarding experiences of this journey.”

One of the greatest lessons learned is seeing the, “sacredness of stories and the freedom that comes with being allowed to write without restriction.”
“I now understand that storytelling is a gift we offer others. It doesn’t need to be perfect; it just needs to be real. Because when it’s real, it can become a mirror, allowing others to find themselves in it. Storytelling is medicine. It’s alchemizing. It’s sacred. And I intend to carry that truth into every part of my future work and personal practice.”

Miniya is the founder of “Mind Body Soulstice,” a health consultancy that offers holistic approaches to healing that honor the stories, bodies, and wisdom of women, particularly those within the African diaspora and marginalized communities. Next, she will be pursuing a PhD in Medical Anthropology “to further explore how narratives, spirituality, and cultural traditions can reshape health systems and reimagine care. Whether through research, consulting, or storytelling, my path forward is guided by a deep commitment to justice, embodiment, and collective healing.”

“To my graduating class and beloved cohort:
Narrative Medicine makes room for all of us. Your passions will meet your path in time, and when they do, you’ll find yourself exactly where you’re meant to be. Trust the unfolding. Congratulations!”

07/11/2025

Congratulations to MS alumnx ’14 Annie Robinson and CPA alumnx ’23 Katie Grogan on their recent presentation “Attending to Maternal Isolation: A Narrative Medicine Intervention” at the Thomas Jefferson Health Humanities Consortium annual Conference.

They ask the question, “What can Narrative Medicine offer in response to the angst and isolation of modern motherhood?” Subsequently, what does this look like in practice?

In their Narrative Motherhood workshops, they try to provide a response to the proposal, “Can the narrative tools we use with medical students and trainees to support their identity transformation help us navigate the identity transformation of matrescence?”

06/20/2025

Congratulations to Samantha Barrick, Affiliate Faculty in the Narrative Medicine Program, for her recent publication in Literature and Medicine, titled “The Insult Is in the FAQ.”

Examining popular questions found at the intersection of art and medicine, Barrick’s goal is, “to reveal underlying relationships of power, economy, and malappropriated™ imaginative labor in medical education and clinical settings. To do so, the author presents responses to three exemplary FAQs in unabashedly subjective manifestations of language including sarcasm, lyric, lament, defiance, and poetic wit, then organizes this data into four separate categories: Reframing Retorts, Analogies, Stage Whispers, and Apologetics.”

In a lively combination of poetic and analytical writing, Barrick weaves the reader through a thorough breakdown of the questions typically encountered and charts that present a condensed, easily-accessible picture.

Barrick asks, “is the way humanists and artists are treated in medical institutions analogous to the ways the internal lives of physicians are treated?”

Click on the link below to read the full article.

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/951018