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The Trauma of Medical Training in Two Webcomics: A Call for Multimodal Citation.
Med Anthropol Q
September 2023
Department of Anthropology, University of California Irvine.
Medical anthropologists have long wrestled with the problematic mind/body opposition that plagues both biomedicine and Euro-American epistemologies. However, medical anthropology as a field has been surprisingly reticent to engage with visual media forms and creative expression, whether film, comics, or animation, even as these media have been shown to augment the bodily and emotional impact on the viewers as compared to solely text-based media. This essay is an attempt to rethink how medical anthropologists can engage more with visual media, taking as an example two comic memoirs created by physicians about their medical training: "Healing Alone" (2019) and "Dailies of a Junior Doc" (2021).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMaking Space to Save Lives: A Critical Role for the Hospitalist During Mass Casualty Incidents.
Disaster Med Public Health Prep
August 2022
Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Objective: An effective hospital response to mass casualty incidents (MCIs) requires rapid mobilization of personnel capable of caring for critically ill trauma patients and availability of resuscitation resources.
Methods: Hospitals facing an MCI wrestle with the challenge of immediately adjusting their overextended clinical operations to resuscitate a large number of rapidly arriving patients without compromising the care of existing patients.
Results: Hospitalists are well positioned to add significant value by off-loading the emergency department (ED) given their broad clinical expertise.
Getting Through COVID-19: Keeping Clinicians in the Workforce.
Ann Intern Med
November 2021
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (C.D.S., D.V.M.).
Physicians and other clinicians continue to wrestle with how to provide safe, high-quality, compassionate care despite ever-changing and potentially dangerous work conditions in the setting of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The risk for contracting COVID-19, the challenges of caring for medically complex patients, and a polarized political environment compound workplace hazards and stress. The authors urge employers and organized medicine to take tangible steps to preserve the clinical workforce.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCultural sensitivity in brain death determination: a necessity in end-of-life decisions in Japan.
BMC Med Ethics
May 2021
International Medical Center, University of Tsukuba Affilated Hospital, 2-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan.
Background: In an increasingly globalized world, legal protocols related to health care that are both effective and culturally sensitive are paramount in providing excellent quality of care as well as protection for physicians tasked with decision making. Here, we analyze the current medicolegal status of brain death diagnosis with regard to end-of-life care in Japan, China, and South Korea from the perspectives of front-line health care workers.
Main Body: Japan has legally wrestled with the concept of brain death for decades.
Rebuilding trust.
Patient Educ Couns
May 2021
Department of Psychology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA. Electronic address:
Lack of trust is a major problem in our current health care system and is increasingly becoming a focus in the literature and in national discussions on how to better understand, address, and resolve. In this narrative essay, I share how I wrestled with rebuilding trust after my own adverse experiences with medical error, surgery complications, and communication challenges. This perspective highlights the critical importance of physician communication and trust in the patient-physician relationship.
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