Abraham Nussbaum
Physician, Teacher, Writer
On Service: A Prayer Book of the Clinical Hours
What would change if the everyday carry of healthcare workers was not a smartphone, but an illuminated book of prayers and practices for today’s clinical hours?
At a time when many in the profession experience burnout and disillusionment, On Service helps clinicians slow down, reclaim presence, and see their patients again in the good company of artists from the past millenia.
Coming March 2027
Progress Notes: One Year in the Future of Medicine
How do students become the doctors we really need? Before med school, Catherine taught, Itzam played soccer, Megan was a doula, Mallory read philosophy, Mackenzie advocated, Maggie served the homeless, and Sarah fixed bikes.
In Progress Notes, we follow all seven as they train for the future of medicine in a novel curriculum. They learning from two textbooks instead of one: body and community. Along the way, they fall ill, marry, divorce; they live even as they become doctors for their community.
The Finest Traditions of My Calling: One Physician’s Search for the Renewal of Medicine
“Out of medical school for just 12 years, Dr. Abraham M. Nussbaum has joined the ranks of physicians who write their memoirs even as they are paying off their student loans. These young people write to complain, to explain, to reflect, to crack jokes. A few feel destined for new and better careers in literature. None in recent memory has wielded a set of intellectual and writerly tools to such dazzling and instructive effect as Dr. Nussbaum . . . He writes beautifully, in a lucid prose as notable for its process as its conclusions: The reader can actually watch him think. . . . we will eagerly await the next volume in the set.”
–Abigail Zuger, MD, New York Times
Perscribing Together: A Relational Guide to Psychopharmacology
When we meet each other, we make each other. When we prescribe a medication, we prescribe each other. We can do it better, especially when prescribing (and de-prescribing) medications for people with mental illness.
Prescribing Together distills centuries of wisdom from clinicians who study how to prescribe well with others and teaches how mental health clinicians and primary care clinicians treating mental disorders can be collaborators with patients instead of dispensers.
The Pocket Guide to the DSM-5-TR™ Diagnostic Exam
The Pocket Guide to the DSM-5-TR™ Diagnostic Exam is the person-centered, evidence-based guide to the psychiatric interview.
Designed for interviewers at all levels of experience, this bestselling guide is the clinician’s companion for using DSM-5-TR in diagnostic interviews. It embeds psychiatric diagnoses within the therapeutic alliance and encourages a wider audience to approach each patient as a person, humanizing psychiatric treatment.
Latest posts
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Dissipatio H.G., Guido Morselli
Not the first post-apocalyptic novel– I see you and love you, Mary Shelley– but the template for today’s versions. Morselli saw the attractions of the Anthropocene and what remains after its abrupt end. The narrator is brilliant and cranky, the kind of fellow who could be the Last Man on…
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Love in the Ruins, Walker Percy
In honor of the 250th anniversary of the frayed republic, I re-read Percy’s most prophetic novel since it is set on the Fourth of July. It’s aged, poorly, repeating the prejudices of the narrator. It’s aged, brilliantly, mapping the present fault lines of the country. Percy is, like his protagonist,…
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Love’s Labor, Stephen Grosz
What do the Second Coming, Crossroads, and October have in common? After years of building your songbook, the record company needs a second album. The songs remaining in the book belong in the vault and the new songs belong in the tour bus because they are about the bus. Many…
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Pastoral Training
A collab with friends: songs for looking from the ordinary to the extraordinary in the hospital.
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HIV Clinic
At a friend’s request, here are some songs from the pandemic–victims, survivors, allies– all together, again. Mostly first-gen because: Gen X for life.
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Hospital Garden
Songs for digging in the dirt, sitting in the shade, and planting yourself.