Physician, Teacher, Writer
Catherine taught school, Itzam played professional soccer, Megan was a doula, Mallory read philosophy, Mackenzie was an advocate, Maggie served the homeless, and Sarah fixed bikes. Now these seven students are becoming doctors, together, in a new way.
In Progress Notes, they follow patients instead of physicians. Visiting patients at the hospital and at home, the students learn from the textbook of the body, but also the textbook of the community.
While studying the two textbooks, they also live: marrying, parenting, and becoming ill themselves all while they meet their Match and the kind of physician they will be for the rest of their lives… and the kind of physician they will be for others.
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Genre is a strategy, Altschuler reminds us, and medicine has negotiated epistemic crises with a range of genres. Holmes made sense of anesthesia by writing novels. Rush imagined the sympathetic system as the republic. Poe negotiated epidemics with the Gothic. Altschuler reminds that we praise empiricism, but neglect the role…
Professionalization includes and excludes. The doors to the house of medicine for Black physicians, especially Black women, were barred during the Progressive Era. Remarkably, a few pioneers made their way to the bedside of patients despite many obstacles. Brown builds each chapter around the story of one of these pioneers.…
Inside today’s academic medical centers, the talk is about generational differences. Work-life balance or fiduciary responsibility. Medicine is a job or a calling. Physicians should band together as union members or in professional guilds. Trainees should have stricter duty hours or live within the hospital. The crisis in medical education…
Songs for morning afters– sobriety, reality, health, salvation– and a way to hold your head that doesn’t hurt.
Sometimes the big night is every night, and every dopamine-carved pathway brings you to the hospital.
Sing along, y’all, when you’re feeling that good ‘ole euthymia.